Rand Ucla Appropriateness Meth

Book Detail
Edition:
Release: 2001-04-23
Publisher: Rand Publishing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0833029185
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Rand Ucla Appropriateness Meth pdf
Description

Health systems should function in such a way that the amount of inappropriate care is minimized, while at the same time stinting as little as possible on appropriate and necessary care. The ability to determine and identify which care is overused and which is underused is essential to this functioning. To this end, the "RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method" was developed in the 1980s. It has been further developed and refined in North America and, increasingly, in Europe. The rationale behind the method is that randomized clinical trials--the "gold standard" for evidence-based medicine--are generally either not available or cannot provide evidence at a level of detail sufficient to apply to the wide range of patients seen in everyday clinical practice. Although robust scientific evidence about the benefits of many procedures is lacking, physicians must nonetheless make decisions every day about when to use them. Consequently, a method was developed that combined the best available scientif Download Rand Ucla Appropriateness Meth for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

Download Rand Ucla Appropriateness Meth pdf