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cut 500 calories each day and lose half a kilo (about a pound) a week

A surprisingly small imbalance, just ten extra calories a day, has driven the 9kg jump in the average American’s weight over the past 30 years.

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Adult Accountability

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is notable is because he has applied his successful problem identification model and research (from his well-regarded The Innovator’s Dilemma) to healthcare

ACO providers are expected to take blood pressure readings of patients 18 years of age or older, a measure proven to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. But nowhere in the CMS list of performance measures is there any requirement to do an EKG on such patients.

On average, people received the preventive services tracked in the reports two-thirds of the time. Moreover, wide variation was found in receipt of different types of preventive services. For instance, 20% of high-risk adults ages 18-64 ever received pneumococcal vaccination, but 94% of children ages 19-35 months received 3 doses of polio vaccine. On average, people received appropriate acute care services three-quarters of the time. Rates of receipt of acute care services ranged from a low of 8% among patients who needed and received treatment for an alcohol problem at a specialty facility to a high of 94% of hospitalized patients who indicated that communication with their doctors was good. On average, patients received recommended chronic disease management services three-quarters of the time. Again, receipt of chronic disease management services varied widely, from 17% of dialysis patients being registered on a kidney transplant waiting list to 95% of hospice patients receiving the right amount of pain medication.