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Presents the elements of competitive strategic action to assist managers of health care organizations in making sound decisions and implementing them.

This book examines two experiments in Massachusetts, outlining some of the key elements of their successes and failures. It also examines a different approach to cost containment-the development of the global hospital budgeting system.

Describes how to analyze the market for health care services and recommends management techniques for competing successfully with other health care facilities

This report presents findings from an extensive literature review and key informant interviews on the use of public deliberation as a method for increasing public input for health research. We conducted this review to inform a deliberative methods demonstration conducted as part of the Community Forum project, which seeks to expand public input to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Effective Health Care Program and its comparative effectiveness research enterprise, as well as to advance the field of public deliberation. The deliberative methods demonstration, fielded in fall 2012, entailed 72 sessions conducted using four distinct deliberative approaches. Participants were randomly selected members of the public residing in the Sacramento, North Carolina, Chicago, and Washington DC areas; groups were demographically diverse and composed of 12 to 24 members.

A History of the Experimental Printmaking Institute, EPI, at Lafayette College under the founding director and master printmaker Curlee Raven Holton. Since its founding in 1996 EPI has passionately advocated for printmaking as an indispensable component of cultural and creative engagement.