National priorities for the assessment of clinical conditions and medical technologies: report of a pilot study
by Lara, Marielena, Goodman, Clifford, Council on Health Care Technology (Institute of Medicine), National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment (U.S.)
fromIOM publication
An estimated five million US children have asthma. This report argues that many asthma attacks could be avoided - and much suffering prevented and many medical costs saved - if more children received good-quality, ongoing asthma care.
Over the course of 2000, RAND Health engaged an interdisciplinary committee of nationally recognized leaders in childhood asthma in a structured group process to arrive at the policy recommendations proposed in Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes in the United States: A Blueprin…