A series of Commonwealth Fund–sponsored articles about international health system issues offers lessons for the U.S. The articles explore:
- job satisfaction and motivation among physicians in the U.S. and Germany;
- the implications of U.S. experiences with early childhood interventions for the U.K.'s Sure Start Programme;
- a review of English-language surveys of clinicians' attitudes toward clinical practice guidelines;
- the U.K.'s use of cost-effective analysis to make coverage decisions; and
- a conceptual framework for the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project.
