Evaluating the Feasibility of Developing National Outcome Data Bases to Assist Patients with Making Treatment Decisions: Data Bases to Assist Patients Wtih Making Treatment Decisions - Softcover

Damberg, Cheryl L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833034200 ISBN 13: 9780833034205

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2004

Synopsis

Examines the feasibility of establishing national outcomes databases to help patients and providers make more informed treatment decisions.

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About the Author

Cheryl Damberg (Ph.D., Rand Graduate School of Policy Studies) is a Health Policy Fellow. Research interests include employmentbased health insurance, health care reform, quality of care, health promotion/disease prevention. Matthias Schonlau (Ph.D. Statistics, University of Waterloo, Ontario) is an associate statistician at Rand. Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Ph.D., Public Policy, Rand Graduate School) is Director of the Rand Center for Research on Quality in Health Care.

Synopsis

This report examines issues surrounding the establishment of a national patient outcomes database that would be used by patients and providers to make more informed treatment decisions. It focuses on prostate cancer and surgery for osteoarthritis.

Edition details

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0833034200
• ISBN 13: 9780833034205
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 148