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Policymakers should support efforts to eliminate preventable medical injuries and accidents from procedural errors or preventable adverse events.
Federal and state governments should require individual providers and health care facilities (including hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, medical centers or
Performance measures should be developed from evidence-based guidelines.
All public reports should present information grounded in evidence. The information should be clinically important as well as useful and meaningful to the end-users.
Education programs should promote the public’s understanding of the health care system.
Any efforts to address medical malpractice concerns should begin with a patient-centered focus on reducing errors and promoting fair compensation.
Federal and state governments and employers should pursue innovative strategies to reduce health care costs.
Federal and state governments should test and evaluate payment approaches that create incentives for providers to be more efficient and effective and that reward good-quality care.
All levels of government and the private sector should adequately fund and support antifraud and anti-abuse efforts. A balanced approach to enforcement should be taken.
Health care providers and their activities must not be exempt from federal antitrust statutes unless and until a need for such exemptions is clearly demonstrated.