... Surgery Congenital heart disease Congenital heart surgery Health care Cost-effective care Aristotle score Modern medicine can provide more care than society can afford. The cost of medical care is of worldwide concern. There is increasing pressure on doctors and hospitals to be ever more cost...

... events occur. Too few services proffered are harmful. A look at prior efforts may prove beneficial before the United States initiates overall health care reform. Regulatory stringency and impact on behavior Rationing Cost-effective care 1 Many thanks are due the anonymous referees and the editor...

... a definitive guide on how to provide effective care for people with far-advanced disease. It has been written by two palliative specialists, both of whom have been family doctors. The book deals with all the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social problems that will be encountered by family doctors...

... effective care and the care that patients actually receive. Many of the larger policy questions – such as the formation of fundholding general practices, and their subsequent abandonment – are not so well supported as the more detailed service issues, such as choice of first-line therapy. The chapter...

... differential item functioning DIF Gitlin L N Preventive Services Task Force Whisman M A Affordable Care Act antipsychotic medications Howland R H psychological treatments and interventions depression comorbidity chronic health conditions disease burden assessment and treatment effective care ...

... care expenditures health care costs ineffective care effective care Over the past several decades, those involved in the ethical debate over health care rationing have tended to agree on a basic assumption—that there is little to be gained by addressing frank waste in the health care system...

... to Americans living longer with serious illness, thereby accentuating the need to foreground culture in palliative care. On a structural level, such efforts have been reflected in initiatives emphasizing the delivery of person-centered and culturally effective care. Social workers are uniquely positioned...