The VA National Formulary generated controversy, which motivated congressional scrutiny and a directive to the VA to commission this report reviewing the experience with the National Formulary and formulary system. This Institute of Medicine committee was pleased to assist the Congress with this review, in part because the committee saw in the VHA example an opportunity to understand and anticipate problems that all publicly funded programs are likely to encounter in this new age of pharmaceuticals. The Congress asked the committee to review the restrictiveness of the National Formulary, its impact on the costs and quality of care in the VHA, and how it compared to formularies and drug management practices in the private sector and in other public programs, especially Medicaid. Detailed in the pages that follow, the committee's findings and conclusions on these questions are, the committee believes, highly instructive, though not always in the ways that we anticipated. Table of ContentsFront MatterExecutive SummaryIntroductionIs the VA National Formulary Overly Restrictive and Does it Prevent Physicians from Meeting the Health Care Needs of Veterans?What are the Potential Costs to VA Health Care Associated with the National Formulary for Drugs?What are the Effects of the National Formulary and Related Policies on Quality of Care?How Does the VA National Formulary Compare with Private Insurance Formularies for Drugs and Devices and with Other Government Formularies?The VA National Formulary and Veterans Health CareReferencesAcronymsAppendix A: Interim Report of the Committee on VA Pharmacy Formulary Analysis to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Congress of the United StatesAppendix B: Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy's Managed Care Formulary and Pharmacy Benefit Design SurveyAppendix C: Additional Cost InformationAppendix D: GlossaryAppendix E: Drug Classes and Drug IndexAppendix F: Committee Biographies

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Blumenthal, David

Herdman, Roger

Administration & Medicine Economics

National Academies Press

Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received last rites four times as an adult, and Lyndon Johnson suffered a "belly buster" of a heart attack. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone explore how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality—and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as they faced the difficult politics of health care. Drawing on a trove of newly released White House tapes, on extensive interviews with White House staff, and on dramatic archival material that has only recently come to light, The Heart of Power explores the hidden ways in which presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, the book shows what history can teach us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.

The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office

History

Morone, James

Americas

University of California Press

Even the most powerful men in the world are human―they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received last rites four times as an adult, and Lyndon Johnson suffered a "belly buster" of a heart attack. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone explore how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality―and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as they faced the difficult politics of health care. Drawing on a trove of newly released White House tapes, on extensive interviews with White House staff, and on dramatic archival material that has only recently come to light, The Heart of Power explores the hidden ways in which presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, the book shows what history can teach us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.

Self-Help

Fulton, Anne

Death & Grief

Improving Clinical Practice describes the diverse scientific methodologies that TQM employs, details practical applications of TQM as used in a number of clinical settings, and outlines the opportunities and challenges facing health care professionals who apply the principles of TQM. Written by the leading practitioners in the field, Improving Clinical Practice includes information on methods that provide health care professionals access to more rapid and reliable information about their patients, tools for involving patients more extensively in their own care, TQM techniques for care of patients with hypertension and other chronic illnesses, potential uses of TQM for improving surgical technique, and recommendations for making TQM function successfully in a health care setting.

Improving Clinical Practice: Total Quality Management and the Physician (JOSSEY BASS/AHA PRESS SERIES)

Scheck, Anne C.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jossey-Bass

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