Improving quality of care while decreasing the cost of health care isa national priority. The American College of Physicians recently launched its High-Value Care Initiative to help physicians and patients understand the benefits, harms, and costs of interventions and to determine whether services provide good value. Public and private payers continue to measure underuse of high-value services(...

Author Affiliations:Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina (Goffredo, Dinan, Sosa); Department of Biostatistics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (Thomas); Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (Perkins); Section of Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina (Roman, Sosa). Corresponding Auth...

In today’s challenging health care environment, the paradigm shift from volume to value requires nurse leaders develop enhanced skills transform in 2020. Key drivers for success include: igniting innovation and change; embracing data analytics; launching new delivery models that soar beyond organizational boundaries. Value-based is here stay, nursing must be catalyst change. Equipped with knowl...