"Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America" ed. by Mark Smith, Robert Saunders, Leigh Stuckhardt, J. Michael McGinnis
Committee on the Learning Health Care System in America; Institute of Medicine
NAS Press | 2012 | ISBN: 0309260736 9780309260732 | 381 pages | PDF | 5 MB

Contents
REVIEWERS
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abstract
Summary
Part I The Imperatives
1 Introduction and Overview
2 Imperative: Managing Rapidly Increasing Complexity
3 Imperative: Achieving Greater Value in Health Care
4 Imperative: Capturing Opportunities from Technology, Industry, and Policy
Part II The Vision
5 A Continuously Learning Health Care System
Part III The Path
6 Generating and Applying Knowledge in Real Time
7 Engaging Patients, Families, and Communities
8 Achieving and Rewarding High-Value Care
9 Creating a New Culture of Care
10 Actions for Continuous Learning, Best Care, and Lower Costs
Appendix A Glossary
Appendix ? A CEO Checklist for High-Value Health Care
Appendix ? ??? Provisions with Implications for a Learning Health Care System
Appendix D Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff