Author: Board on Health Care Services

Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the nationa...

In recent years, patients' out-of-pocket costs for cancer care have been rising rapidly. These costs include health insurance deductibles, coinsura...

At least 5.6 million to 8 millionnearly one in fiveolder adults in America have one or more mental health and substance use conditions, which prese...

A growing body of research indicates that social determinants of health have a significant impact on health care utilization and outcomes. Research...

Every community is affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Causes as diverse as falls, sports injuries, vehicle collisions, domestic violence, an...

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the bes...

Many of the elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, and with the establishment of many new rules and regulations, there...

Today's physician education system produces trained doctors with strong scientific underpinnings in biological and physical sciences as well as sup...

The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop, Incorporating Weight Mana...

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) administers the Social Security Disability Insurance program and the Supplemental Security Income pro...

The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many ...

Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thriving, a substantial and growing number of childre...

Behavioral health conditions, which include mental health and substance use disorders, affect approximately 20 percent of Americans. Of those with ...

To explore the current and future state of serious illness care research, the National Academies Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious...

The convergence of imaging, pathology, and laboratory testing data, augmented with information technology, is referred to as integrated diagnostics...

Patients living with and beyond cancer often require care from a wide range of clinicians as they navigate cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivo...

Childhood cancer is an area of oncology that has seen both remarkable progress as well as substantial continuing challenges. While survival rates f...

Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have been moving from volume-based, fee-for-service payment to value-based payment (VBP), wh...

Millions of women undergo screening mammography regularly with the hope of detecting breast cancer at an earlier and more curable stage. But the ab...

Traditional preclinical mouse models of cancer have been very useful for studying the biology of cancer, however they often lack key characteristic...

Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, ...

Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, ...

In recent years, the field of oncology has witnessed a number of technological advances, including more precise radiation therapy and minimally inv...

Immunotherapy is a form of cancer therapy that harnesses the body's immune system to destroy cancer cells. In recent years, immunotherapies have be...

The public health burden from lung cancer is substantial: it is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related d...

Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the g...

As information technology becomes an integral part of health care, it is important to collect and analyze data in a way that makes the information ...

Opioid prescriptions for acute and chronic pain increased dramatically from the late 1990s into the current decade in both the civilian and the Dep...

Pediatric subspecialists are critical to ensuring quality care and pursuing research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for children. ...

A long-held goal in oncology has been to develop therapies that target the specific abnormalities in each patient's cancer rather than simply treat...

Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient s...

Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women. The primary patients of breast cancer are adult women who are approaching or hav...

Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, ...

Advances in genetics and genomics are transforming medical practice, resulting in a dramatic growth of genetic testing in the health care system. T...

Advances in cancer research have led to an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms underpinning the development of cancer and how the im...

Transplantation of a solid organ, such as a kidney, heart, or liver, is a lifesaving procedure and is sometimes the only viable treatment for patie...

High-quality primary care is the foundation of the health care system. It provides continuous, person-centered, relationship-based care that consid...

Graduate medical education (GME) is critical to the career development of individual physicians, to the functioning of many teaching institutions, ...

Every year, significant amounts of expensive drugs are discarded. This is due in part to the growing number of prescription drugs that are administ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic adjustments in cancer care delivery and cancer research. To examine these changes, the National Cancer Po...

New technologies and improved understanding of the genesis and progression of various cancers have added to the enthusiasm for potential new strate...