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Conclusion
Pages 39-40

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... We have taken seriously, however, the expressed intent of the framers of the Effectiveness Initiative that appropriate efforts for acquiring needed outcome data-either for the standard data sets themselves or for special projects~ould and would be mounted. For this reason, and because ultimately we believe effectiveness research will falter without an ability to monitor or analyze outcomes appropriately, we have given strong emphasis in this report to outcome measurement; we hope that our suggestions here will strengthen that aspects of this work.
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... Among these might be alternative systems for delivering certain types of care for breast cancer, good mechanisms of feedback of practice-variation information to physicians, and ways to make information available to patients. We did not discuss these in any detail, but we encourage the agencies sponsoring effectiveness research to take them under advisement.
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