The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States.

By E. McGlynn, S. Asch, J. Adams, J. Keesey, Jennifer Hicks, A. Decristofaro, E. Kerr. New England Journal of Medicine, 2003

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Subfields: Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance (2012, background): “By focusing on the direction of the distortion implied by the price wedge, we fail to appreciate that underutilization, possibly resulting from procrastination or inattention, may be a big problem as well (McGlynn et al. 2003, Baicker et al. 2011).”
• Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units (2007, background): “Additionally, research has documented inconsistencies in health care practices that suggest that the quality of treatment received by different patients varies enormously (McGlynn et al. 2003, Wennberg 2002).”
• Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership (2005, background): “…best practice " treatments for their illnesses and less than half of physician practices use recommended processes for care (Casalino et al., 2003; McGlynn et al., 2003); and (3) an estimated thirty to forty cents of every dollar spent on health care, or more than a half-trillion dollars per…”
• Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care (2012, background): “Early work found evidence-based practice is only followed 55 percent of the time (McGlynn et al., 2003) and ensuing studies have reconfirmed that medical errors continue to be prevalent, as more than 1.5 million preventable adverse drug events occur annually (IOM, 2006).”
• The use of health information technology in seven nations (2008, background): “The costs of health care are rising rapidly in most industrialized nations and there is concern that despite high levels of spending, the quality and efficiency of care are suboptimal [1] [2].”