Practice Guidelines: The Experience of Medical Specialty Societies : Report to Congressional RequestorsThe Office, 1991 - 28 pages |
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... boards of directors , and executive boards . In two cases , the entire society membership received drafts for comment . Persons outside the originating society were more commonly asked to review rather than help develop guidelines ...
... boards of directors , and executive boards . In two cases , the entire society membership received drafts for comment . Persons outside the originating society were more commonly asked to review rather than help develop guidelines ...
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... boards . Societies that obtained extensive input and review , and based their guidelines on liter- ature review as well as on expert opinion and consensus , believe their Experiences With Guideline Development Incorporating Outcomes of ...
... boards . Societies that obtained extensive input and review , and based their guidelines on liter- ature review as well as on expert opinion and consensus , believe their Experiences With Guideline Development Incorporating Outcomes of ...
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... board " : allow everyone to " shoot at❞ the guide- lines ; publish guidelines in a scientific journal , allowing everyone to dis- pute guidelines through letters to the editor . Avoid disseminating guidelines through vehicles that may ...
... board " : allow everyone to " shoot at❞ the guide- lines ; publish guidelines in a scientific journal , allowing everyone to dis- pute guidelines through letters to the editor . Avoid disseminating guidelines through vehicles that may ...
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... boards . Public Law 101-239 provides that the AHCPR " shall conduct and support evaluations " of the extent to which ... Board of Trustees , adopted by the House of Delegates of the AMA , Dec. 1989 . Suggestions Provided and Issues ...
... boards . Public Law 101-239 provides that the AHCPR " shall conduct and support evaluations " of the extent to which ... Board of Trustees , adopted by the House of Delegates of the AMA , Dec. 1989 . Suggestions Provided and Issues ...
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Page 8 - Agency, as stated by law, is to enhance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health care services...
Page 1 - Act of 1989) to enhance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health care services and access to these services.
Page 16 - Outcomes management is a technology of patient experience designed to help patients, payers, and providers make rational medical care-related choices based on better insight into the effect of these choices on the patient's life.
Page 2 - GAO determined: why guidelines were developed; what kinds of guidelines were developed (scope, types of recommendations, types of products); the methodology used to develop guidelines; who was involved in developing guidelines; how guidelines were disseminated; what provisions existed for updating guidelines; and how much effort was required to produce guidelines (880). The details of GAO's findings are not presented in its report due to confidentiality issues.
Page 1 - ... Senate The Honorable John Glenn Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate The Honorable David Pryor Chairman, Special Committee on Aging United States Senate The Honorable William S. Cohen Ranking Minority Member Special Committee on Aging United States Senate In December 1989, the Congress established the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in an effort to improve the quality of health care afforded the American public. As an accompaniment to this action,...
Page 12 - A guideline is considered a standard if the health and economic outcomes of the alternative interventions are sufficiently well known to permit meaningful decisions and there is virtual unanimity about which intervention is preferred.
Page 8 - arrange for the development and periodic review and updating of clinically relevant guidelines.
Page 16 - ... related choices based on better insight into the effect of these choices in the patient's life."2 Some guideline developers believe it is valuable to integrate information about the outcomes of medical care into their societies