Optimizing Health: Improving the Value of Healthcare Delivery

Framework of CLINECS.- “CLINECS”: Strategy and Tactics to Provide Evidence of the Usefulness of Health Care Services from the Patient's Perspective (Value for Patients).- Systems View of Health Care.- Ethics and Philosophy.- Seeking Justice in Health Care.- Evidence-Based Medicine and Ethics: Desired and Undesired Effects of Screening.- Paradoxes of Medical Progress: Abandoned Patients, Physicians, and Nurses.- Theory Behind the Bridge Principles.- Psychology.- How to Measure Quality of Life.- New Instrument to Describe Indicators of Well-Being in Old Old Patients with Severe Dementia: Vienna List.- Patient Empowerment: Increased Compliance or Total Transformation?.- Shared Decision Making in Medicine.- Clinical Practice.- Overdiagnosis and Pseudodisease: Too Much of a “Good Thing”?.- Palliative Medicine Today: Evidence and Culture.- Medical Geography–Who Gets the Goods? More May Not Be Better.- Cancer Survival in Europe and the United States.- Patient Safety: What Does It Mean in the United States?.- Increasing Safety by Implementing Optimized Team Interaction: Experience from the Aviation Industry.- Evidence-Based Information Technology: Concept for Rational Information Processing in the Health Care System.- Economically Oriented Analyses.- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Measuring the Value of Health Care Services.- Cost-Effectiveness of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery.- Health Economic Evaluation of Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatment.- Aims and Value of Screening: Is Perceived Safety a Value for Which to Pay?.- Clinical Epidemiology.- Evidence-Based Health Care Seen From Four Points of View.- Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Efficiency of Diagnostic Technology.- Reduced Mammographic Screening May Explain Declines in Breast Carcinoma Among Older Women.- “Fading of Reported Effectiveness” Bias: Longitudinal Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.- Clinical Research and Outcomes Research: Common Criteria and Differences.- Are the Results of Randomized Trials Influenced by Preference Effects? Part I. Findings from a Systematic Review.- Are the Results of Randomized Trials Influenced by Preference Effects? Part II. Why Current Studies Often Fail to Answer this Question.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Suggested Changes in Practice, Research, and Systems: Clinical Economics Point of View.