Patient-centred care is a term that gets bandied about a lot these days. But what does it really mean? How does our health system need to change to make it truly patient-centred? What reforms and ...
Adult cardiovascular care centered on the patient can improve individuals' experiences and their medical outcomes, according to a new American Heart Association Scientific Statement published today in ...
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has grabbed the limelight as a new model of health care that offers an alternative to fragmented, impersonal and wasteful care that has become the norm ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Reviews of patient-centered medical homes suggest that they lead to lower costs and improved care quality, but a significant investment in primary care and strong payer-provider ...
Experts have called for technology adoption in Nigeria’s healthcare transformation and prioritisation of patient-centred ...
In January this year my political opposite Heather Roy and I jointly published a paper under the title Te Whatu Ora: Achieving Patient Centred Care and Wellbeing: Achieving Patient-Centred Care and ...
It has quite literally paid off for primary care physicians who have participated in CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield’s patient-centered medical home model and demonstrated both quality care and cost ...
Kenneth Bertka, MD, is a family physician and vice president of physician clinical integration at Mercy, a seven hospital and physician group system based in Toledo, Ohio. Mercy is a member of ...
Preventive service use was better in patients with a usual source of care but little improved by patient-centered medical home status. Objectives: Despite data suggesting that patient-centered medical ...
Continence care is an essential nursing skill and all nurses need to be aware of their vital role in continence assessment and management. Like all areas of nursing, continence care should be as ...
Coordinated care delivery models have taken the healthcare industry by storm, with patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations becoming more popular with hospitals, health ...