Medical Effectiveness Research Data Methods. Summary Report.

摘要

Improvements in the quality, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of health care are the goal of medical treatment effectiveness/patient outcomes research. Outcomes research requires large amounts of data because it studies health care in the general population. Often, data obtained from different sources--such as, Medicare, hospitals, third-party payers--need to be combined but are incompatible. This volume presents innovative techniques that have been developed and tested by leaders in the field for using large data bases to carry out medical effectiveness research.