Evidence-Based Approach To Medicine Would Help The US Healthcare System: Report

[HuckleB]

Considering The Evidence In Health Care
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/175712.php

"Taking a more strongly evidence-based approach to medicine would help the US healthcare system recover its ranking among other nations and improve quality, access, efficiency, equity and healthy lives, according to a report published in the International Journal of Public Policy this month.

Jeffrey Harrison and Kim Radcliffe of the Department of Public Health, at the University of North Florida, in Jacksonville, suggest that evidence-based medicine is a strategy to transfer knowledge about approaches to care specific to particular diseases among both patients and healthcare providers. It is, they say, an opportunity to increase the quality and efficiency of the healthcare system thereby improving the health status of the population.

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Now, Harrison and Radcliffe have analyzed data from the 2005 HIMSS Analytics Database which surveyed more than 4,000 US hospitals to demonstrate how emerging information technology infrastructure might enhance healthcare quality. Such developments could improve clinical practice by providing more effective access to current medical research information and procedural knowledge.

Evidence-based medicine, for instance, sidesteps older tests and medication that have proven ineffective more recently as well as alerting practitioners to new approaches to particular diseases that have emerged from more recent studies. The rapid deployment of electronic medical records will accelerate the widespread adoption of evidence-based medicine across the healthcare industry.


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Somehow I don't think is being addressed by the current proposed legislation.

[CreekDog]

1. An Evidence-Based approach would help the DU system too

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[HuckleB]

2. +1

[hedgehog]

3. I think it was in the bill at some point when it was a health care reform

bill and not a health insurance reform bill. In fact, the proposal for evidence based medicine may have been the genesis for all the death panel rumors.

[HuckleB]

6. I know some legislators have tried to sneak in language for faith healing, etc... unfortunately.

[Juche]

4. I believe this is opposed by pharma and the hospital industry

Didn't they oppose the $1.1 billion in the stimulus to comparative effectiveness research because it might find that lower cost, lower profit treatments work just as well as the more expensive ones?

I support this idea, but honestly have trouble believing it can get past the GOP and the lobbies in congress. Insurance companies might support this legislation, but hospitals and pharma will oppose it.

[HuckleB]

5. I don't remember that.

But you might be correct.

[depakid]

7. The Institute of Medicine has been on this for a decade now

and, unfortunately- like you, I don't see the current legislation addressing many of these issues, either (although actually providing compatibility standards for EHR's was long overdue.

CROSSING THE QUALITY CHASM: A NEW HEALTH SYSTEM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2001/Crossing-the-Quality-Chasm/Quality%20Chasm%202001%20%20report%20brief.ashx

[HuckleB]

8. That's a good piece. I remember reading it in grad school in '01 or early '02.

Thanks for sharing the link.

[Sgent]

9. See revised breast screening guidelines

that was evidence based, this country, including DU, want's no part of it.

They want to live in fantasy land where they make up their own cures.

[HuckleB]

10. All too true.