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Clinical Medicine: Best Practices for Better Health
Clinical Medicine: Best Practices for Better Health
Pages 67-74
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However, all too often there is a disconnect between the best practices identified by research and the care that patients actually receive. The IOM informs clinical decision making by evaluating research in many different arenas and providing the best possible advice and knowledge directly to health care practitioners and consumers.
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Release of the IOM report attracted nationwide media attention, including the major networks CBC, NBC, and ABC, as well as impacting legislation at the state and federal levels. The report's recommendations led to the enactment of the PREEMIE Act, legislation designed to reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, as well as reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity.
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concluded that a coordinated strategy is needed to continue clinical and scientific advances in sleep research. To lessen the public health and economic burden caused by Nearly 20 percent of all serious car sleep loss and sleep disorders, the workforce crash injuries in the general population required to meet the clinical and scientific de- are associated with driver fatigue and mands in this field must be expanded.
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Despite this increase, primary care physicians and other health care providers often are not familiar with the secondary consequences of cancer or cancer treatments and seldom receive ex plicit guidance from oncologists. Furthermore, the lack of clear evidence of what constitutes best practices in caring for patients with a history of cancer contrib utes to wide variations in care.
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Participants in the care planning workshop called for health care providers, patient advocates, and other stakeholders to raise awareness of the needs of cancer survivors. For example, leadership organizations for physicians, nurses, and other health care providers should collaborate to improve care, and insurance companies should improve access to necessary services through more generous reimbursement policies.
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The bill provides for coverage of comprehensive care planning under the Medicare program and would improve the care furnished to individuals diagnosed with cancer by establishing a Medicare hospice care demonstration program and grants programs for cancer palliative care and symptom management, provider education, and related research. Mental or Substance-Use Problems: Quality of Care Each year more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substance-use problems and illnesses.
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The strategy addresses the essential role that health care plays for mental and substance abuse Health care for mental and substanceconditions in improving overall health. To that use conditions has a number of end, the report identified actions that should distinctive characteristics, however -- be required of clinicians, health care organiza including the greater use of coercion tions, health plans, purchasers, all levels of gov into treatment, separate care delivery ernment, and all other parties involved in health systems, a less developed infrastructure care for mental and substance-use conditions.
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Another focus has been on advancing the capacity to generate clinical evidence for medical care that is most effective and provides the greatest value. Participants are also examining how to improve public understanding of evidence and its dynamic nature.
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