Carolyn M. Clancy

TL;DR: Increasing the supply of pragmatic or practical clinical trials will depend on the development of a mechanism to establish priorities for these studies, significant expansion of an infrastructure to conduct clinical research within the health care delivery system, more reliance on high-quality evidence by health care decision makers, and a substantial increase in public and private funding forThese studies.

TL;DR: 5 principles to address disparities in health care through modifications in quality performance measures are proposed: disparities represent a significant quality problem and clinical performance measures should be stratified by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position for public reporting.

TL;DR: The Lucian Leape Institute has identified five concepts as fundamental to the endeavor of achieving meaningful improvement in healthcare system safety, which are transparency, care integration, patient/consumer engagement, restoration of joy and meaning in work, and medical education reform.

TL;DR: Lacking health insurance is associated with an increased risk of subsequent mortality, an effect that is evident in all sociodemographic health insurance and mortality groups examined.

TL;DR: In the next decade, increased inclusion of outcomes measures in daily practice will facilitate expansion of the metrics by which patients and clinicians evaluate the success of health care.