The Socioeconomics of Health Care and the Practice of Urology

by Loughlin, Kevin R.

• ISBN13: 9781437705546
• ISBN10: 1437705545
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: SAUNDERS W B CO

Summary

In this unique issue, the content is devoted to the socioeconomics of healthcare. Healthcare economics provide the underpinning of urologic practice for today and tomorrow. All of our clinical endeavors are dependent on the economic realties of the twenty-first century. This issue elucidates some of the challenges that are facing patients, physicians, and society. There are two major sections, The Healthcare Landscape: The Big Picture and Urologic Practice: Current Issues and Future Prospects. In the first section, articles address the history and demographics of healthcare and following this, several authors provide different proposals for healthcare reform. These proposals are followed by more parochial urologic issues which include residency training, certification and recertification, urologic research, practice management, and the impact of medical malpractice.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Dedication	p. xiii
The Healthcare Landscape: The Big Picture
The Evolution of Health Care in America	p. 1
The Demographic Burden of Urologic Diseases in America	p. 11
Fixing Health Care Before It Fixes Us	p. 29
Performance Measurement, Public Reporting, and Pay-for-Performance	p. 37
American Health Care at the Crossroads	p. 49
US Health Care: Single-Payer or Market Reform	p. 57
The American Medical Association Stake in the Future of US Health Care: The American Medical Association Plan for Reform of the US Health Care System	p. 63
Urologic Practice: Current Issues and Future Prospects
Residency Training: Where Do We Go from Here	p. 73
Certification, Recertification, and Maintenance: Continuing to Learn	p. 79
The Sad and Bleak Future for Urology Funding at the National Institutes of Health	p. 85
Supergroups and Economies of Scale	p. 95
Medical Malpractice: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	p. 101
Index	p. 111
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