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- catalog abstract "Demanding Medical Excellence provides an eye-opening view of medicine that focuses on what happens once we reach the doctor's office or hospital. Although few patients realize it, even the best-trained doctors go about their work with an astonishingly shallow base of knowledge about the link between what they do and how it affects health. As many as eight out of ten medical practices have never been scientifically validated. Proven therapies, meanwhile, can take years to make their way into common use, even for deadly problems like heart disease. Often, geography is destiny: how a woman is treated for breast cancer can depend solely on where in the United States she lives. But a convergence of technology and changed financial incentives is finally forcing change. As the economic reality of medical cost containment meets the information age, it has become imperative to critically examine the care we are receiving. This book calls into question many of our assumptions about the mixture of art and science in medicine and lays out the steps we must take today to assure consistently excellent care in the future.".
- catalog contributor b10379510.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Demanding Medical Excellence provides an eye-opening view of medicine that focuses on what happens once we reach the doctor's office or hospital. Although few patients realize it, even the best-trained doctors go about their work with an astonishingly shallow base of knowledge about the link between what they do and how it affects health. As many as eight out of ten medical practices have never been scientifically validated. Proven therapies, meanwhile, can take years to make their way into common use, even for deadly problems like heart disease. Often, geography is destiny: how a woman is treated for breast cancer can depend solely on where in the United States she lives. But a convergence of technology and changed financial incentives is finally forcing change. As the economic reality of medical cost containment meets the information age, it has become imperative to critically examine the care we are receiving.".
- catalog description "Doing the right thing and doing the right thing right -- Changing the paradigm of medical practice -- Holding medicine accountable for results -- The promise and perils of managed care.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This book calls into question many of our assumptions about the mixture of art and science in medicine and lays out the steps we must take today to assure consistently excellent care in the future.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 433 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Demanding medical excellence.".
- catalog identifier "0226525872".
- catalog isFormatOf "Demanding medical excellence.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog relation "Demanding medical excellence.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1997 L-306".
- catalog subject "Delivery of Health Care".
- catalog subject "Medical Informatics United States.".
- catalog subject "Medical care United States.".
- catalog subject "Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) United States.".
- catalog subject "Quality Assurance, Health Care United States.".
- catalog subject "RA395.A3 M476 1997".
- catalog subject "W 84 AA1 M59d 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Doing the right thing and doing the right thing right -- Changing the paradigm of medical practice -- Holding medicine accountable for results -- The promise and perils of managed care.".
- catalog title "Demanding medical excellence : doctors and accountability in the information age / Michael L. Millenson.".
- catalog type "text".