The Medical Professionalism Blog

This week’s Recommended Reading focuses on new recommendations with the potential to improve stewardship of health care resources:

• The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System issued a proposed strategic plan for community-based approaches to improving care and lowering cost for individuals with chronic illnesses. They estimate that creating 50 to 100 voluntary “Health Improvement Communities” could result in $184 billion in health care savings over a ten-year period.

• The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute outlined its vision for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research in a new issue of JAMA.