@BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Engineering", title = "The Impact of Academic Research on Industrial Performance", isbn = "978-0-309-08973-9", abstract = "Drawing on the findings of sector-specific workshops, e-mail surveys, research literature,\nexpert testimony, and committee and panel members\u2019 expertise, this National\nAcademy of Engineering study assesses the qualitative impact of academic research\non five industries\u2014network systems and communications; medical devices and\nequipment; aerospace; transportation, distribution, and logistics services; and financial\nservices. The book documents the range and significance of academic research\ncontributions to the five industries\u2014comparing the importance of different types of\ncontributions, the multi- and interdisciplinary nature of these contributions, and the\nmultiple vectors by which academic research is linked to each industry. The book calls\nfor action to address six cross-cutting challenges to university-industry interactions:\nthe growing disciplinary and time-horizon-related imbalances in federal R&D funding,\nbarriers to university-industry interaction in service industries, the critical role of\nacademic research in the advancement of information technology, the role of academic\nresearch in the regulation of industry, the impact of technology transfer activities\non core university research and education missions, and the search for new pathways\nand mechanisms to enhance the contributions of academic research to industry.\nThe book also includes findings and recommendations specific to each industry.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10805/the-impact-of-academic-research-on-industrial-performance", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Radiation Source Use and Replacement: Abbreviated Version", isbn = "978-0-309-11014-3", abstract = "In the United States there are several thousand devices containing high-activity radiation sources licensed for use in areas ranging from medical uses such as cancer therapy to safety uses such as testing of structures and industrial equipment. Those radiation sources are licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and state agencies. Concerns have been raised about the safety and security of the radiation sources, particularly amid fears that they could be used to create dirty bombs, or radiological dispersal device (RDD). In response to a request from Congress, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the National Research Council to conduct a study to review the uses of high-risk radiation sources and the feasibility of replacing them with lower risk alternatives. The study concludes that the U.S. government should consider factors such as potential economic consequences of misuse of the radiation sources into its assessments of risk. Although the committee found that replacements of most sources are possible, it is not economically feasible in some cases. The committee recommends that the U.S. government take steps to in the near term to replace radioactive cesium chloride radiation sources, a potential \"dirty bomb\" ingredient used in some medical and research equipment, with lower-risk alternatives. The committee further recommends that longer term efforts be undertaken to replace other sources. The book presents a number of options for making those replacements. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11976/radiation-source-use-and-replacement-abbreviated-version", year = 2008, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Medical Requirements for Ambulance Design and Equipment", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/20553/medical-requirements-for-ambulance-design-and-equipment", year = 1968, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Frederick J. Manning and Lewis Goldfrank", title = "Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program: Phase I Report", isbn = "978-0-309-07647-0", abstract = "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Metropolitan Medical Response (MMRS) program has evolved from an idea originally developed in the Washington, D.C., area in 1995. Using the combined personnel and equipment resources from Washington, D.C., Arlington County in Virginia, and Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland, the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team (MMST) received training, equipment, and supplies specifically designed to facilitate an effective response to a mass-casualty terrorism incident with a weapon of mass destruction (WMD). The first of its kind in the civilian environment, the MMST was intended to be capable of providing initial, on-site emergency health, medical, and mental health services after a terrorist incident involving chemical, biological, or radiological (CBR) materials. The team's mission includes CBR agent detection and identification, patient decontamination, triage and medical treatment, emergency transportation of patients to local hospitals, coordination of movement of patients to more distant hospitals via the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), and planning for the disposition of nonsurvivors. Building from the initial efforts of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area MMST, OEP provided funding for the development of a similar team in the city of Atlanta in preparation for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. The U.S. Congress has subsequently authorized and provided funding for additional contracts with the 120 most populous U.S. cities.\nTools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical REsponse System Program: Phase I Report identifies and develops performance measures and systems to assess the effectiveness of, and to identify barriers related to, the MMRS development process. This report identifies, recommends, and develops performance measures and systems to assess the effectiveness of, and identify barriers related to, the MMRS development process at the site, jurisdictional, and governmental levels.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10221/tools-for-evaluating-the-metropolitan-medical-response-system-program-phase", year = 2001, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Strategies That Influence Cost Containment in Animal Research Facilities", isbn = "978-0-309-07261-8", abstract = "Care and use of animals in research are expensive, prompting efforts to contain or reduce costs. Components of those costs are personnel, regulatory compliance, veterinary medical care, and laboratory animal management, equipment, and procedures. Many efforts have been made to control and reduce personnel costs, the largest contributing factor to cost, through better facility and equipment design, more efficient use of personnel, and automation of many routine operations. However, there has been no comprehensive, recent analysis of the various cost components or examination of the strategies that have been proven or are purported to decrease the cost of animal facility operation.\nStrategies that Influence Cost Containment in Animal Research Facilities examines the current interpretation of governmental policy (Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21) concerning institutional reimbursement for overhead costs of an animal research facility and describes methods for economically operating an animal research facility. This report develops recommendations by which federal auditors and research institutions can establish what cost components of research animal facilities should be charged to institutions' indirect cost pool and what animal research facility cost components should be included in the per diem charges to investigators, and assesses the financial and scientific ramifications that these criteria would have among federally funded institutions. Further, the report determines the cost components of laboratory animal care and use in biomedical research and assesses and recommends methods of cost containment for institutions maintaining animals for biomedical research.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10006/strategies-that-influence-cost-containment-in-animal-research-facilities", year = 2000, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Safe, Comfortable, Attractive, and Easy to Use: Improving the Usability of Home Medical Devices", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9058/safe-comfortable-attractive-and-easy-to-use-improving-the-usability", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "K.M. Hunter-Zaworski and Uwe Rutenberg", title = "Use of Mobility Devices on Paratransit Vehicles and Buses", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 171: Use of Mobility Devices on Paratransit Vehicles and Buses describes the current and emerging issues which limit the use of mobility devices in paratransit vehicles and buses, and includes a guidance document to assist transit systems, manufacturers, and transit users in the implementation of potential accessible design and accommodation solutions for the short and long term.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22325/use-of-mobility-devices-on-paratransit-vehicles-and-buses", year = 2014, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Rebecca English and Lyle Carrera and Ashley Bologna and Joe Alper", title = "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Accelerating Treatments and Improving Quality of Life: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief", abstract = "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurological disease. No present treatments can stop or reverse the disease, although Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved formulations may extend life by several months. As part of the information-gathering phase of a study on ALS, the National Academies Board on Health Care Services and Board on Health Sciences Policy cohosted a virtual public workshop series in August and September 2023 to identify key actions for the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to undertake to make ALS a livable disease within a decade. Speakers explored topics including access to high-quality, evidence-based ALS care, the lived experience of ALS, and ALS research and therapeutic development. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27395/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-accelerating-treatments-and-improving-quality-of-life", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement", isbn = "978-0-309-15679-0", abstract = "It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of existing services. And an even more fundamental question is the degree to which the increased spending actually has purchased improved health.\n\nAccounting for Health and Health Care addresses both these issues. The government agencies responsible for measuring unit prices for medical services have taken steps in recent years that have greatly improved the accuracy of those measures. Nonetheless, this book has several recommendations aimed at further improving the price indices.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12938/accounting-for-health-and-health-care-approaches-to-measuring-the", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Alan M. Jette and Carol Mason Spicer and Jennifer Lalitha Flaubert", title = "The Promise of Assistive Technology to Enhance Activity and Work Participation", isbn = "978-0-309-45784-2", abstract = "The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that 56.7 million Americans had some type of disability in 2010, which represents 18.7 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population included in the 2010 Survey of Income and Program Participation. The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. As of December 2015, approximately 11 million individuals were SSDI beneficiaries, and about 8 million were SSI beneficiaries. \n\nSSA currently considers assistive devices in the nonmedical and medical areas of its program guidelines. During determinations of substantial gainful activity and income eligibility for SSI benefits, the reasonable cost of items, devices, or services applicants need to enable them to work with their impairment is subtracted from eligible earnings, even if those items or services are used for activities of daily living in addition to work. In addition, SSA considers assistive devices in its medical disability determination process and assessment of work capacity. \n\nThe Promise of Assistive Technology to Enhance Activity and Work Participation provides an analysis of selected assistive products and technologies, including wheeled and seated mobility devices, upper-extremity prostheses, and products and technologies selected by the committee that pertain to hearing and to communication and speech in adults.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24740/the-promise-of-assistive-technology-to-enhance-activity-and-work-participation", year = 2017, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Anna Nicholson and Claire Giammaria and Justin Snair", title = "Exploring the Translation of the Results of Hurricane Sandy Research Grants into Policy and Operations: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief", abstract = "The workshop Translating the Results of Hurricane Sandy Research Grants into Policy and Operations was convened\u2028on July 20, 2017, in Washington, DC, by the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Workshop participants explored key findings from published Hurricane Sandy research grant projects, examined the impact of the scientific findings on disaster policy and operations, and discussed opportunities to translate the research findings to future preparedness response and recovery efforts. The workshop included panel sessions focused on the potential policy and operational implications from research on mental health, public health, access to care, and primary care. An additional \u201cmarketplace\u201d session gave researchers, operations agents, and policy experts an opportunity to discuss particular research findings and how they might be applied to operations and policy. This publication briefly summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24889/exploring-the-translation-of-the-results-of-hurricane-sandy-research-grants-into-policy-and-operations", year = 2017, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors", isbn = "978-0-309-21236-6", abstract = "In the United States, health care devices, technologies, and practices are rapidly moving into the home. The factors driving this migration include the costs of health care, the growing numbers of older adults, the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions and diseases and improved survival rates for people with those conditions and diseases, and a wide range of technological innovations. The health care that results varies considerably in its safety, effectiveness, and efficiency, as well as in its quality and cost. \nHealth Care Comes Home reviews the state of current knowledge and practice about many aspects of health care in residential settings and explores the short- and long-term effects of emerging trends and technologies. By evaluating existing systems, the book identifies design problems and imbalances between technological system demands and the capabilities of users. Health Care Comes Home recommends critical steps to improve health care in the home. The book's recommendations cover the regulation of health care technologies, proper training and preparation for people who provide in-home care, and how existing housing can be modified and new accessible housing can be better designed for residential health care. The book also identifies knowledge gaps in the field and how these can be addressed through research and development initiatives. \nHealth Care Comes Home lays the foundation for the integration of human health factors with the design and implementation of home health care devices, technologies, and practices. The book describes ways in which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and federal housing agencies can collaborate to improve the quality of health care at home. It is also a valuable resource for residential health care providers and caregivers.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13149/health-care-comes-home-the-human-factors", year = 2011, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Marilyn J. Field and Alan M. Jette", title = "The Future of Disability in America", isbn = "978-0-309-10472-2", abstract = "The future of disability in America will depend on how well the U.S. prepares for and manages the demographic, fiscal, and technological developments that will unfold during the next two to three decades.\n\nBuilding upon two prior studies from the Institute of Medicine (the 1991 Institute of Medicine's report Disability in America and the 1997 report Enabling America), The Future of Disability in America examines both progress and concerns about continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. This book offers a comprehensive look at a wide range of issues, including the prevalence of disability across the lifespan; disability trends the role of assistive technology; barriers posed by health care and other facilities with inaccessible buildings, equipment, and information formats; the needs of young people moving from pediatric to adult health care and of adults experiencing premature aging and secondary health problems; selected issues in health care financing (e.g., risk adjusting payments to health plans, coverage of assistive technology); and the organizing and financing of disability-related research. \nThe Future of Disability in America is an assessment of both principles and scientific evidence for disability policies and services. This book's recommendations propose steps to eliminate barriers and strengthen the evidence base for future public and private actions to reduce the impact of disability on individuals, families, and society. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11898/the-future-of-disability-in-america", year = 2007, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Steve Olson", title = "The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-15629-5", abstract = "The rapid growth of home health care has raised many unsolved issues and will have consequences that are far too broad for any one group to analyze in their entirety. Yet a major influence on the safety, quality, and effectiveness of home health care will be the set of issues encompassed by the field of human factors research\u2014the discipline of applying what is known about human capabilities and limitations to the design of products, processes, systems, and work environments.\nTo address these challenges, the National Research Council began a multidisciplinary study to examine a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues resulting from the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. Its goal is to lay the groundwork for a thorough integration of human factors research with the design and implementation of home health care devices, technologies, and practices.\nOn October 1 and 2, 2009, a group of human factors and other experts met to consider a diverse range of behavioral and human factors issues associated with the increasing migration of medical devices, technologies, and care practices into the home. This book is a summary of that workshop, representing the culmination of the first phase of the study.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12927/the-role-of-human-factors-in-home-health-care-workshop", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide", isbn = "978-0-309-47789-5", abstract = "In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally.\nCrossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas.\nCrossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective\ncare at the patient\/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25152/crossing-the-global-quality-chasm-improving-health-care-worldwide", year = 2018, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Megan Reeve and Theresa Wizemann and Bradley Eckert and Bruce Altevogt", title = "The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-30360-6", abstract = "Many of the elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, and with the establishment of many new rules and regulations, there will continue to be significant changes to the United States health care system. It is not clear what impact these changes will have on medical and public health preparedness programs around the country. Although there has been tremendous progress since 2005 and Hurricane Katrina, there is still a long way to go to ensure the health security of the Country. There is a commonly held notion that preparedness is separate and distinct from everyday operations, and that it only affects emergency departments. But time and time again, catastrophic events challenge the entire health care system, from acute care and emergency medical services down to the public health and community clinic level, and the lack of preparedness of one part of the system places preventable stress on other components. The implementation of the ACA provides the opportunity to consider how to incorporate preparedness into all aspects of the health care system.\nThe Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events in November 2013 to discuss how changes to the health system as a result of the ACA might impact medical and public health preparedness programs across the nation. This report discusses challenges and benefits of the Affordable Care Act to disaster preparedness and response efforts around the country and considers how changes to payment and reimbursement models will present opportunities and challenges to strengthen disaster preparedness and response capacities.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18755/the-impacts-of-the-affordable-care-act-on-preparedness-resources-and-programs", year = 2014, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine and National Research Council and National Research Council", title = "Improving Palliative Care: We Can Take Better Care of People With Cancer", isbn = "978-0-309-08984-5", abstract = "As a society, we have made amazing gains in being able to detect and treat cancer. Even so, about half the people who are told by their doctors that they have cancer will die within a few years. This means that every year about one million people find out that they have cancer and are treated, and about one-half million people die of cancer nationwide. So far, most cancer research and treatment has focused on trying to cure cancer. There hasn't been much attention paid to other important issues, such as pain control and taking care of other troubling symptoms. Now more and more people are aware that there are cancer care needs beyond just trying to cure it. Attention is now being paid to helping people with cancer cope better with the problems that may arise when people are being treated or as they approach death.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10790/improving-palliative-care-we-can-take-better-care-of-people", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Carla Alvarado", title = "Exploring Tax Policy to Advance Population Health, Health Equity, and Economic Prosperity: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief", abstract = "On December 7, 2017, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a 1-day workshop in Oakland, California, at The California Endowment Oakland Regional Office\u2013Healthy Communities Center. The workshop featured presentations, panel discussions, and an exercise about tax policy as both an influence on health outcomes and a possible source of financing for population health activities; ranging from diabetes prevention to universal pre-kindergarten. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25066/exploring-tax-policy-to-advance-population-health-health-equity-and-economic-prosperity", year = 2018, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Joseph P. Newhouse and Alan M. Garber and Robin P. Graham and Margaret A. McCoy and Michelle Mancher and Ashna Kibria", title = "Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care: Preliminary Committee Observations", isbn = "978-0-309-28282-6", abstract = "Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observations is designed to provide the committee's preliminary observations for the 113th Congress as it considers further Medicare reform. This report contains only key preliminary observations related primarily to the committee's commissioned analyses of Medicare Parts A (Hospital Insurance program), B (Supplementary Medical Insurance program) and D (outpatient prescription drug benefit), complemented by other empirical investigations. It does not contain any observations related to the committee's commissioned analyses of the commercial insurer population, Medicare Advantage, or Medicaid, which will be presented in the committee's final report after completion of quality-control activities.\nThis interim report excludes conclusions or recommendations related to the committee's consideration of the geographic value index or other payment reforms designed to promote highvalue care. Additional analyses are forthcoming, which will influence the committee's deliberations. These analyses include an exploration of how Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) and commercial spending, utilization, and quality vary compared with, and possibly are influenced by, Medicare Parts A and B spending, utilization, and quality. The committee also is assessing potential biases that may be inherent to Medicare and commercial claims-based measures of health status. Based on this new evidence and continued review of the literature, the committee will confirm the accuracy of the observations presented in this interim report and develop final conclusions and recommendations, which will be published in the committee's final report.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18308/interim-report-of-the-committee-on-geographic-variation-in-health-care-spending-and-promotion-of-high-value-care", year = 2013, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Court Lewis", title = "Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration–Capital Asset Inventory Database Management and Strategic Capital: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief", abstract = "The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on February 19-20, 2019. The purpose of this 2-day workshop was to explore the tools, techniques, and models being used by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and other organizations both within and outside the federal government for facilities asset and data management, capital planning, and project management relevant to Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, and in particular the staffing challenges relative to those functions. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25453/facilities-staffing-requirements-for-the-veterans-health-administration-capital-asset-inventory-database-management-and-strategic-capital", year = 2019, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }