Commentaries Discuss Evidence-Based Medicine; Report Examines States' Efforts To Insure Young Adults

Improving Patient Care by Linking Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Management," Journal of the American Medical Association: In the commentary, Stephen Shortell of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health and colleagues discuss the need for policy recommendations and interventions to create an integrated evidence-based approach to health care (Shortell et al., JAMA, 8/8).


Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help," The Commonwealth Fund: The report examines health care coverage trends for young adults and finds that young adults continue to represent the largest uninsured age group in the U.S. The report also discusses state laws to improve health coverage of young adults by allowing them to remain on their parents' health plans, as well as federal efforts that would allow states to increase access to SCHIP and Medicaid up to age 25 (The Commonwealth Fund release, 8/8).

"Toward Evidence-Based Policy Making and Standardized Assessment of Health Policy Reform," JAMA: In the commentary, J. Frank Wharam of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Norman Daniels of the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard School of Public Health discuss the need for a framework for the structured assessment of health care initiatives. Such a framework should include standards in the areas of health outcomes, access and income spent on health care, according to Wharam and Daniels (Wharam/Daniels, JAMA, 8/8).



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