Walgreen, for example, has formed various affiliations with large hospital systems and doctor-led clinics across the country to create patient-care protocols and other programs.
This calls for patient-care information to be shared through electronic records.
And at least the heart of the scheme has doctors' firm backing: four-fifths of them told the poll cited above that providing national patient-care records would indeed be of real importance.
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Those picking up the tab for health care welcome the moves by hospital operators and others toward less costly patient-care settings like urgent care, especially as Medicare and Medicaid programs move toward paying providers for coordinating care.
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In April inspectors identified major concerns in two areas - patient care and staffing - and minor concerns in four others, including lack of equipment, staff training and record-keeping.
Perhaps you, too, might want to learn directly from some of the best doctors and others covering patient-centered care.
That is patient-centered care and I personally feel better for it.
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In this era of patient-centered care, women do need to feel empowered to make the choices that are best for them in treating their breast cancer.
Patient navigation programs are the result of the medical community's new emphasis on patient-centered care, says Mandi Pratt, associate director of community programs at George Washington University's Cancer Institute.
Advocates say patient-centered care can improve outcomes and reduce costs, so much so that hospital reimbursement from insurance companies is now partially tied to patients' opinions on how well a facility treated them.
The broader concept of patient-centered care first gained widespread notice as a result of a 2001 Institute of Medicine report calling it one of six core goals of a 21st-century health care system.
In Bradford acute in-patient care has been reconfigured to provide self-contained single sex units.
In-patient care is provided in public and private hospitals (not-for-profit and for-profit).
It has a one-to-one nurse-patient ratio in critical care and one-to-four in the rest.
Most out-patient care is delivered by doctors, dentists and medical auxiliaries working in their own practices.
In the study, one on-call paediatrician was questioned in every hospital providing acute in-patient care for children.
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This is not about patient care - this is about lack of resources for single sex wards.
"Those of us who want patient-centered health care have had two years to repeal it, " Hensarling said.
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The flood of new drugs that has reached the market in recent years has brought gains in patient care--and more than one unintended result.
Yet Medicare seems to be learning exactly the wrong lessons from the success of the program, which provides well-integrated patient-centered comfort care to people with terminal illness.
But Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy said patient care - including helping with feeding and taking patients to the toilet - should be carried out by nurses.
Republicans, however, said the issue remains a priority for their constituents and defended the need to combat what they call a threat to patient-focused health care and the economy.
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What the Dr Foster analysis illustrates is why the NHS struggles and how then a culture that is not conducive to what ministers like to call "patient-centred" care develops.
There's one problem: They are unable to feature the leading voices of patient care -- the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association -- because those organizations support reform as good for patients.
The initiative comes as government and private insurers emphasize the importance and need for physicians to take on new roles as quarterbacks that managing medical care needs of patient populations through so-called Accountable Care Organizations.
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The programs target areas such as patient advocacy, health-care management and new media marketing that are expected to generate job growth.
We need to think carefully about an appropriate interface for a patient in intensive care - a touch screen might be helpful.
But though he loved solving puzzles, he didn't enjoy day-to-day patient care.
But they are still candidates for team-based, patient-centered, integrated care that provides comfort, reduces pain, and provides for their social and spiritual needs.
When nurses are disrespected, the work they do is overlooked and not well supported meaning 24-hour-a-day patient care is not a priority in the hospital.
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