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    Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation
    (National Academies Press, 2008) Eden, Jill; Wheatley, Ben; McNeil, Barbara; Sox, Harold
    There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services. The United States must sustantially strengthen its capacity for assessing evidence on what is known and not known about "what works" in health care. Even the most sophisticated clinicians and consumers struggle to learn which care is appropriate and under what circumstances. Knowing What Works in Health Care looks at the three fundamental health care issues in the United States--setting priorities for evidence assessment, assessing evidence (systematic review), and developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines--and how each of these contributes to the end goal of effective, practical health care systems. This book provides an overall vision and roadmap for improving how the nation uses scientific evidence to identify the most effective clinical services. Knowing What Works in Health Care gives private and public sector firms, consumers, health care professionals, benefit administrators, and others the authoritative, independent information required for making essential informed health care decisions.
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    Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Medical Care
    (2000) Mayberry, Robert M; Mili, Fatima; Ofili, Elizabeth
    The authors’ review of the health services literature since the release of the landmark Report of the Secretary’s Task Force Report of Black and Minority Health in 1985 revealed significant differences in access to medical care by race and ethnicity within certain disease categories and types of health services. The differences are not explained by such factors as socioeconomic status (SES), insurance coverage, stage or severity of disease, comorbidities, type and availability of health care services, and patient preferences. Under certain circumstances when important variables are controlled, racial and ethnic disparities in access are reduced and may disappear. Nonetheless, the literature shows that racial and ethnic disparities persist in significant measure for several disease categories and service types. The complex challenge facing current and future researchers is to understand the basis for such disparities and to determine why disparities are apparent in some but not other disease categories and service types.
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    Legislation to Improve Health of Racial and Ethnic Minorities: The Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act of 2003
    (2003) Daschle, Tom
    Too often, racial and ethnic minorities receive a lower standard of health care than other Americans. The federal government has recognized this serious problem and has set the goal of eliminating racial and ethinic health disparities by the end of the decade. House and Senate Democrats introduced legislation, the Healthcare Equality and Accountability Act of 2003, that takes an important step toward making this national goal a reality. The bill has been referred to the Senate Health and Labor and Pensions Committee.