Patient-Centered Care

Patient-Centered Care
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Patients Should Have a Role in Deciding the Value of Medicines
Thomas W. Concannon @tconcannon, Lori Frank @LoriBethFrank
Jul 10, 2020
STAT
Patients, their family members, and the general public have historically been excluded from contributing to health care value assessment models. But methods for including patient voices in research are far less complicated or demanding than some researchers believe they will be.
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Iran
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Iran, Mental Health and Jail, Russia: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 10, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on Iran and Iraq following the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, supporting those experiencing mental illness in jails, Russia's hostile measures, and more.
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Patient-Centered Care
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Giving Patients a Voice in Medical Guidelines
Dec 31, 2019
Clinical guidelines are the user manuals of modern medicine. They can dictate insurance coverage and help hospitals set quality standards. Yet they often lack the perspective of those who care the most about good treatment: patients and their caregivers. Researchers are working to change that.
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Electronic Medical Records
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How Smartphone Apps Could Help Keep Health Records Accurate
Ben Moscovitch, Robert S. Rudin @rsrudin
Oct 4, 2018
TechCrunch
Electronic health records have helped streamline record keeping but providers aren't always able to reliably pull together records for the same patient from different hospitals, clinics, and doctor's offices. The growing use of smartphones offers a promising opportunity to improve record matching.
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Health Care Quality Measurement
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Can Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Improve Health Care?
Thomas W. Concannon @tconcannon
Jul 31, 2015
The BMJ
A review in 2017 of the adequacy and use of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Funds will be used to determine whether funding levels should be continued or adjusted after its authorization runs out in 2019. Researchers ought to take stock of the work in patient-centered outcomes research.
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Medical Homes
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Nature and Nurture: What's Behind the Variation in Recent Medical Home Evaluations?
Mark W. Friedberg, Connie Sixta, Michael Bailit
Jun 19, 2015
Health Affairs Blog
As demonstrated in Pennsylvania, conveners of medical home pilots are drawing from their early experiences to refine their intervention designs and improve their effectiveness. Such a learning process is likely to be a critical part of successfully implementing any new model of payment and care delivery.
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Health Care Workforce
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How to Avert a Doctor Shortage
Michael D. Rich @michaeldrich
Apr 2, 2014
RAND Review and The Health Care Blog
Within the next decade, the United States may face a shortage of 130,000 physicians due to a growing, aging population and the anticipated demands of those newly insured under the ACA. This shortage can be alleviated by early creative interventions.
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Medical Homes
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Medical Homes Show Limited Quality Improvements, No Cost Reductions
Feb 27, 2014
A study suggests that medical home interventions may require further refinements before their full potential can be realized. Evaluations like this can help guide the improvement of the medical home model.
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The United States should find ways to deter Chinese aggression that don't involve making an unambiguous and costly military commitment to Taiwan. Short of such a guarantee, Washington can still make much more explicit that invading Taiwan will entail economic, political, and military consequences for China.

Michael J. Mazarr

Senior Political Scientist

Source: Foreign Affairs

The failure of the jihadists can be judged a victory—albeit a costly one—over an organized effort to instigate violence in the United States. The country, however, has not exhausted its inventory of disaffected young men (and women) who may, in the future, embrace jihadism or other extremist ideologies on offer to convey their discontent.

Brian Michael Jenkins

Senior Adviser to the RAND President

Source: The Hill

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Patient-Centered Care

Patients Should Have a Role in Deciding the Value of Medicines

Iran, Mental Health and Jail, Russia: RAND Weekly Recap

Giving Patients a Voice in Medical Guidelines

How Smartphone Apps Could Help Keep Health Records Accurate

Can Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Improve Health Care?

Nature and Nurture: What's Behind the Variation in Recent Medical Home Evaluations?

How to Avert a Doctor Shortage

Medical Homes Show Limited Quality Improvements, No Cost Reductions

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