Patients feared contracting Ebola during the continuum of care, being declared as an Ebola case, being isolated in quarantine, or being sent to an ETC. Patients who avoided HCFs close to ETCs or who had reported EVD cases. A reduction in the number of deliveries in HCFs was reported in ...
A combination of salary and incentive bonuses can exist when a group contracts with the PA, either as a partner or as an independent provider, for a minimum amount of services. Revenues over that minimum amount, or yearly excess profits of the group, are distributed in a predetermined sharing...
Proactively plans and ensures communication of the plan of care across the continuum of care. Uses critical nursing skills to assess and evaluate physical, psychosocial, and emotional needs according to standards of care. Assess patient preferences and barriers to involvement in care, including their ...
The idea of interoperability of data across the care continuum with the ability to make it actionable would be great. Remote monitoring of people without them having to do anything. The Internet of Things will make this much easier (some day), but the idea of simply integrating technology ...
3. Integrate "near virtual" office visits into the care continuum. These near-virtual visits will have require- ments similar to fully virtual office visits, and scale up the availability of "near-home" sites of care (for exam- ple, workplace and retail clinics)....
The care continuum itself extends from the producers, insurers, governments, and extends through the community, the providers, to non-acute care and into the home. This is the extended healthcare value chain that enables the patient-centric supply chain. It means that people, data, supplies, ...
On the other side of the continuum, there are people who perceive the experience of caregiving as a great and precious time during which they establish a strong relationship with their children, learn new skills, as well as closely observe how their children develop. Yet it is clear that such...
B.E. Smith (Lenexa, Kan.).B.E. Smith is the healthcare industry’s trusted partner for executive leadership solutions across the continuum of care. Since 1978, B.E. Smith has excelled at connecting healthcare providers with highly qualified leaders and supporting needs ranging from permanent ...
Claesson L, Gosman-Hedström GA, Johannesson M, Fagerberg B, Blomstrand C: Resource Utilization and Costs of Stroke Unit Care Integrated in a Care Continuum: A 1-Year Controlled, Prospective, Randomized Study in Elderly Patients: The Göteborg 70+ Stroke Study. Stroke 2000, 31: 2569–2577...
Self-care or self-sacrifice? Self-care and altruism can be viewed as aspects of professionalism that sit along a continuum. GMC guidance and medical education literature has recently shifted towards self-care but prior to this, the preceding ethos emphasised altruism and self-sacrifice [19]. ...