Publications

 

Perspectives: The NAM’s Weekly Health Periodical

 

NAM Perspectives are expert commentaries and discussion papers by leading voices in health, medicine, biomedical science, and related policy. New papers are published online once a week. 

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Special Publications

Special publications are monograph- or book-length reviews on issues of importance to the NAM mission. They describe the key elements of an issue, summarize and assess the nature of the evidence base, and present priority strategies or actions. Recommendations or opinions are those of the authors/editors, not of the NAM, the National Academies, or authors’ organizations.

Sharing Health Data: The Why, the Will, and the Way Forward (2022)

Educating Together, Improving Together: Harmonizing Interprofessional Approaches to Address the Opioid Epidemic (2021)

Priorities on the Health Horizon: Informing PCORI’s Strategic Plan (2021)

Health Data Sharing to Support Better Outcomes: Building a Foundation of Stakeholder Trust (2020)

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: The Hope, the Hype, the Promise, the Peril (2019)

 

Caring for the Individual Patient: Understanding Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (2019)

The Future of Health Services Research: Advancing Health Systems Research and Practice in the United States (2018)

Procuring Interoperability: Achieving High-Quality, Connected, and Person-Centered Care (2018)

Effective Care for High-Need Patients: Opportunities for Improving Outcomes, Value, and Health (2017)

First, Do No Harm: Marshaling Clinician Leadership to Counter the Opioid Epidemic (2017)

Perspectives on Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health (2017)

Optimizing Strategies for Clinical Decision Support (2017)

Accelerating Medical Evidence Generation and Use (2017)

Vital Directions for Health & Health Care (2017)

Featured Consensus Studies

 

Consensus study reports published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine document the evidence-based consensus on a statement of task by an authoring committee of experts. Reports typically include findings, conclusions, and recommendations based on information gathered by the committee and the committee’s deliberations. Each report has been subjected to a rigorous and independent peer-review process and represents the position of the National Academies on the statement of task.  More consensus studies>>

Medication-Assisted Therapy for Opioid Use Disorder (2019)

Heritable Human Genome Editing (2020)

Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Health Equity (2019)

The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth (2019)

Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being (2019)

Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health (2019)


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