Seemed Like a Good Idea: Alchemy Versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Healthcare Management Innovation

by Flaura Winston, Mark Pauly, Mary Naylor

Book Overview

Consumers, public officials, and even managers of health care and insurance are unhappy about care quality, access and costs. This book shows that is because efforts to do something about these problems often rely on hope or conjecture, not rigorous evidence of effectiveness. In this book, experts in the field separate the speculative from the proven with regard to how care is rendered, how patients can be in control, how providers should be paid,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009001272
• ISBN13: 9781009001274
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"