<p>This book provides practical guidance on using information systems effectively to answer questions posed by a variety of stakeholders in the U.S. health care system, including consumers, purchasers, providers, and health system administrators. Providing an introduction to health services research techniques, the authors discuss the use of various data sources for analysis, as well as the integration of these data sources and the application of different analytic techniques to answering key policy questions. This book offers a broad overview of the critical issues in using information systems, as well as a technical section that addresses analytic topics of concern to researchers and analysts working in private and public sector groups responsible for purchasing, managing, delivering, and regulating health care services.</p>

Health Information Systems: Design Issues and Analytic Applications (Directions in Health Services Research and Policy)

Medical Books

Brook, Robert H.

Damberg, Cheryl L.

McGlynn, Elizabeth A.

Kerr, Eve A.

Administration & Medicine Economics

RAND Corporation

The benign tumors known as terine leiomyomata are a common cause of significant, often disabling syptoms among women. For women whose symptoms are not controlled by hormones or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, surgery―hysterectomy or myomectomy―is required. Over the long term, about 10 percent of women who have had a myomectomy will later require a hysterectomy to control bleeding. Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a minimally invasive radiologic technique for reducing symptoms caused by uterine leiomyomata. A randomized, controlled trial with careful measurement of short- and long-term outcomes is crucial to establish the comparative risks and benefits of UAE, myomectomy, and hysterectomy. In addition, the panel recommeded careful study of the costs of UAR and the establishment of a registry of patients undergoing UAE to provide nonexperimental data on the procedure.

Uterine Artery Embolization: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Proposal for Research (Rand Health)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Broder, Michael S.

Harris, Katherine

Morton, Sally C.

Sherbourne, Cathy

Diseases & Physical Ailments

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