Many issues affect the delivery of care to patients who are most in need. Particularly, those who live in rural areas or those who need specialized care may not have access to the care they need. Patients whose care transitions across acute care and long-term/post-acute care (LTPAC) settings may have additional challenges in receiving coordinated… Read More »
In a graduate course this semester (at the Temple University College of Public Health) on Healthcare Quality and Safety, one of the assignments is to explore the internet to learn about how consumers/patients without specific healthcare knowledge might get information on quality of care. When students enter “consumer healthcare information” in Google, the first result… Read More »
One of the challenges in delivering efficient medical care is identifying people who are at risk of a negative outcome, so we can focus our efforts on screening and treating those at elevated risk. We do this in individual face-to-face encounters through clinical, diagnostic processes: taking a patient’s history, performing a physical examination, recording signs… Read More »