Although we all have heard the statistics, this current state of health in the United States drives the work of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) to ensure access to coordinated, comprehensive, quality health care.JEANETTE MAY...
This paper defines quality of health care. We suggest that there are two principal dimensions of quality of care for individual patients; access and effectiveness. In essence, do users get the care they need, and is the care effective when they get it? Within effectiveness, we define two key...
Defining access to health care: Evidence on the importance of quality and distance in rural Tanzania. Am J Agric Econ. 2009; 91(2): 347-358.Klemick, Heather, Kenneth Leonard, Melkiory Masatu. Defining access to health care: Evidence on the importance of quality and distance in rural ...
17 This model fosters innovation in healthcare delivery and stimulates providers to offer better-aligned, comprehensive, and higher-quality care to patients. However, a country with a less advanced healthcare system might not yet have all systems and required infrastructure in place to introduce ...
Interpretation of changes in health-related quality of life: the remarkable universality of half a standard deviation. Med Care. 2003;41(5):582–92. Article Google Scholar Rai SK, Yazdany J, Fortin PR, Aviña-Zubieta JA. Approaches for estimating minimal clinically important differences in ...
Research on systemic and complex problems such as the environment and health care often reflects a combination of cri- tique and problem-solving approaches. The integrated definition of interdis- ciplinary studies used in this book reflects an emerging consensus approach to the field: It is ...
Similarly, a participant might agree that he/she has improved, but based on the cost healthcare payers (private or government insurer) may consider that the benefit is not worth the cost of treatment.58 It is important to emphasise that any of the above listed MDD and MCID values cannot...
Hence, studies regarding the value of health care are essential. Value is defined as quality relative to the cost of care.5 It is a useful metric in health care services and economics research because maintaining the quality of care provided while controlling cost is imperative. Pancreatic cancer...
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine (EMGO) Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Stefan Pilz & Natasja M van Schoor Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism,...
Recommend including profile of local and national health care access and funding (publicly funded, insurance- based, etc.) Participant dyad structure E.g., Postsecondary student/older adult; child/older adult; youth/E(e)lder; sex based. Also state kin- proximity and rationale for...