The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Workshop Series Summary

by LeighAnne Olsen, Pierre L. Young, Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, et al.

The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending.

According to The Health Imperative: Lowering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309144337
• ISBN13: 9780309144339
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 852 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.