Animal welfare is a complex and often emotive subject, but one that many veterinary professionals care deeply about. However, sometimes we ourselves can actually be barriers to optimising patient welfare. This article looks at some common practices that occur within veterinary clinics and evaluates ...
• Language and Cultural Barriers • Broader Contexts of Social and Economic Inequality • Negative Impact of Institutional Arrangements Accessibility to health care was related to economic factors. Participants lacked transportation to health care facilities and felt the burden of increased costs that...
Surgery.People of color with lower incomes who wind up in the hospital for IBD-related issues are usually less likely to get surgical care, too. Whether surgery is not recommended, the patient doesn’t want it, or they’re not offered it, we don't quite know. The reasons are unclear. ...
Erfan discussed the need to enhance the healthcare experience for patients while reducing the impact of barriers to access, including language or digital literacy. Powered by eVisit, Virtual ExpressCare offers 24/7 access to timely and appropriate care in over 200 languages, expanding access to un...
Paysafe used Microsoft 365 Copilot to streamline meetings, information management, and document creation, addressing language barriers, eliminating time-consuming tasks, and boosting creativity along the way. Planted is integrating Azure OpenAI to manage everyday tasks more efficiently and facilitate the ...
transformative impact of collaborative efforts in revolutionizing healthcare research and fostering inclusivity. It guides the way towards more equitable and effective clinical trials. It showcases a paradigm where global patient registries become instruments of c...
In the United States (US), the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program is the only comprehensive source of population-based information that includes stage of cancer at the time of diagnosis and patient survival data. This program aims to provide a database about cancer incide...
The trial outcomes that we considered were (1) patient adherence and (2) HCW (or “clinical user”) adherence to the biomarker test results and (3) patient exclusion, to gauge the potential “impact” of CRP point-of-care testing on the population level (e.g. even if user and patient...
Erfan discussed the need to enhance the healthcare experience for patients while reducing the impact of barriers to access, including language or digital literacy. Powered by eVisit, Virtual ExpressCare offers 24/7 access to timely and appropriate care in over 200 languages, expanding access to ...
The healthcare industry still loves the sound of its own voice. According to Mark Crow, president of Tenth Crow Creative, “For generations, society has placed doctors in a position of authority; conversations between physician and patient has been paternalistic and one-directional.” Since doctors...