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Following the extraordinary success of the 2013 conference, we are pleased to announce the second Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, which will be hosted by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford UK. Abstract submission and early bird registration are now open, with limited places for a fee currently set at £345. Submit abstracts via the green button, and register via the red button on the right. Abstracts close March 27. You can sign up for updates on the conference, in the space to the right. Mehr

Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America

America's health care system has become far too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Pervasive inefficiencies, an inability to manage a rapidly deepening clinical knowledge base, and a reward system poorly focused on key patient needs, all hinder improvements in the safety and quality of care and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. Achieving higher quality care at lower cost will require fundamental commitments to the incentives, culture, and leadership that foster continuous "learning”, as the lessons from research and each care experience are systematically captured, assessed, and translated into reliable care. Mehr