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FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Current and Future State of Performance Measurement and Reporting -- 3 Achieving a National System for Performance Measurement and Reporting -- 4 Moving Forward: What Should Be Measured? -- 5 Research Agenda -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Glossary -- Acronym List -- Appendix B National Organizations Involved in Performance Measurement -- Appendix C Case Studies -- Appendix D Ten Design Principles -- Appendix E Methodology and Analytic Frameworks -- Appendix F Commissioned Paper: Improving the Quality of Quality Measurement--John D. Birkmeyer, Eve A. Kerr, and Justin B. Dimick -- Appendix G Starter Set of Measures -- Appendix H Commissioned Paper: Efficiency/Value-Based Measures for Services, Defined Populations, Acute Episodes, and Chronic Conditions--Kyle L. Grazier -- Appendix I Commissioned Paper: Transitional Care Performance Measurement--Eric A. Coleman -- Appendix J Commissioned Paper: Palliative Care/End-of-Life Measures--Sydney Dy and Joanne Lynn -- Appendix K Biographical Sketches -- Index.

Front Matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary of Workshop Discussions -- Introduction -- The International Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime -- Scope, Results, and Good Practices of the U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Related Areas -- Impediments and Their Causes -- Tools for Overcoming Impediments to Cooperation -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Statement of Task -- Appendix B: Participants List -- Appendix C: Glossary -- Appendix D: Russian Background Paper -- Appendix E: American Background Paper.

FRONT MATTER -- CONTENTS -- Welcome and Overview of Sessions, April 26 -- Peter Bickel "Opening Remarks," April 26 -- Data Mining, Unsupervised Learning, and Pattern Recognition -- James Schatz "Introduction by Session Chair" -- Jerry Friedman "Role of Data Mining in Homeland Defense" -- Diane Lambert "Statistical Detection from Communications Streams" -- Rakesh Agrawal "Data Mining: Potentials and Challenges" -- Donald McClure "Remarks on Data Mining, Unsupervised Learning, and Pattern Recognition" -- Werner Stuetzle "Remarks on Data Mining, Unsupervised Learning, and Pattern Recognition" -- Detection and Epidemiology of Bioterrorist Attacks -- Claire Broome "Introduction by Session Chair" -- Kenneth Kleinman "Ambulatory Anthrax Surveillance: An Implemented System, with Comments on Current Outstanding Needs" -- Stephen Eubank "Mathematics of Epidemiological Simulations for Response Planning" -- Sally Blower "Predicting the Unpredictable in an Age of Uncertainty" -- Simon Levin "Remarks on Detection and Epidemiology of Bioterrorist Attacks" -- Arthur Reingold "Remarks on Detection and Epidemiology of Bioterrorist Attacks" -- Image Analysis and Voice Recognition -- Roberta Lenczowski "Introduction by Session Chair" -- Jitendra Malik "Computational Vision" -- Ronald Coifman "Mathematical Challenges for Real-Time Analysis of Imaging Data" -- Larry Rabiner "Challenges in Speech Recognition" -- David McLaughlin "Remarks on Image Analysis and Voice Recognition" -- David Donoho "Remarks on Image Analysis and Voice Recognition" -- Opening Remarks and Discussion, April 27 -- Communications and Computer Security -- Howard Schmidt "Introduction by Session Chair" -- Dorothy Denning "A Security Challenge: Return on Security Investment" -- Kevin McCurley (Talk omitted at speaker's request) -- David Wagner "A Few Open Problems in Computer Security".

FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- Introduction -- Part I--Introduction -- 1 A Historical Perspective and the Current QIO Program -- 2 Assessment of the QIO Program: Findings and Conclusions -- 3 Performance Measurement, Quality Improvement, and Other Entities -- 4 Improving Quality and Performance Measurement by the QIO Program -- 5 CMS Oversight of the Operations and Management of the QIO Program -- Part II--Introduction -- 6 Study Approach -- 7 Structure and Finances -- 8 Technical Assistance for Quality Improvement -- 9 Impact of Technical Assistance for Quality Improvement and Knowledge Transfer -- 10 Evaluation of Quality Improvement Achieved by the QIO Program -- 11 Beneficiary Education and Communications -- 12 Protection of Medicare Beneficiaries and Program Integrity -- 13 CMS Oversight -- Appendixes -- A Supporting Tables -- B Private-Sector Organizations Offering Services Related to Quality Improvement -- C Approaches to Evaluation Design -- D Glossary and Acronyms -- E Committee Biographies -- Index.