Toward a National Health Care Survey : A Data System for the 21st Century
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| Title: | Toward a National Health Care Survey : A Data System for the 21st Century |
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| Description: | The nation's health care system has changed dramatically and the country is debating further significant changes. Comprehensive information is needed to guide policymakers in understanding and evaluating the current problems and in formulating federal health care policy. This book contains an evaluation of the plan developed by the National Center for Health Statistics for restructuring its existing provider surveys. It identifies current and future data needed by researchers and policymakers to assess the effect of changes in financing, organization, and delivery of health care on access, quality, costs, and outcomes of care and determines the extent to which the design and content of the proposed survey can meet these data needs. The book goes beyond a simple review and recommends a design framework to develop a coordinated and integrated data system to gather information about people and their illness over time and to link this information to costs and health care outcomes. |
| Authors: | National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Health Care Services, Panel on the National Health Care Survey |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Information services, Medical care--United States--Statistical services, Medical care surveys--United States |
| Categories: | MEDICAL / Health Policy |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The nation's health care system has changed dramatically and the country is debating further significant changes. Comprehensive information is needed to guide policymakers in understanding and evaluating the current problems and in formulating federal health care policy. This book contains an evaluation of the plan developed by the National Center for Health Statistics for restructuring its existing provider surveys. It identifies current and future data needed by researchers and policymakers to assess the effect of changes in financing, organization, and delivery of health care on access, quality, costs, and outcomes of care and determines the extent to which the design and content of the proposed survey can meet these data needs. The book goes beyond a simple review and recommends a design framework to develop a coordinated and integrated data system to gather information about people and their illness over time and to link this information to costs and health care outcomes. |
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| ISBN: | 9780309046923 9780585153551 9780309572576 |
