Consumer-driven health care: a path to achieving shared goals.

摘要: Consumers are the driving force for a transition to best outcomes-driven health care system that values and rewards outreach, innovation, rapid translation of scientific advances into everyday practice. They engine change can drive outcomes improvement, encourage broader more timely use new knowledge, demand mechanisms evaluate report effects. alone fueled by passion urgency results from living with effects illness, or seeing those they about suffer. This will need be defined consumers, professionals, evidence. But participate as effective agents, consumers good information, decision-support tools, access resources, ongoing support entities trust. By putting consumer in center system, we begin achieve our shared goals: universal high-quality, affordable opportunity everyone optimal health-related quality life function.