Medical Care for Indigent and Culturally Displaced Obstetrical Patients and Their Newborns: Committee on Maternal, Adolescent, and Child HealthHIGH-QUALITY obstetric care from early in pregnancy through the sixweek postpartum period has long been a tenet of Western medicine. Recent statistics show that...
Medical education has long been related to care of the poor, especially in public hospitals, where medical education programs have traditionally provided treatment for indigent patients.1While medical education now covers a range of clinical environments, poor patients still represent a significant number...
Underuse of hospice care by Medicaid-insured patients with stage IV lung cancer in New York and California. Purpose;Medicare patients with advanced cancer have low rates of hospice use. We sought to evaluate hospice use among patients in Medicaid, which insures y... JW Mack,K Chen,FP Bosco...
Tobacco cessation counseling among underserved patients: a report from CaReNet. (Original Research) The GAMP program was repositioned to become a purchaser within the market for services needed by medically indigent individuals. An Access Program for Medically Indigent Individuals This lack of dental se...
(PGHMFI) is a non-stock, non-profit organization which was conceived to assist the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) in achieving its noble mission of providing excellent health care for its indigent patients. It serves as a conduit of donations coming from various civic-minded individuals, ...
Medical students' attitudes toward underserved patients: A longitudinal comparison of problem-based and traditional medical curricula toward providing care for medically indigent patients as they progressed through the four-year undergraduate medical education curriculum, and to determine if ... Crandall,SJS...
Ability to obtain medical care for the uninsured: how much does it vary across communities? Communities differ in the way that medical care for medically indigent persons is organized and delivered, which is likely to result in differences across ......
Objective:To compare the prevalences of major medical problems in homeless and nonhomeless patients. Patients:All 475 persons seeking care at an ambulatory clinic serving the medically indigent for one calendar year. Intervention:None. Measurements and main results:Demographic and clinical data were col...
1.a place for the medical treatment of nonresident patients, sometimes at reduced cost. 2.a group of physicians, dentists, or the like, working in cooperation and sharing facilities. 3.a group convening for instruction or remedial work:a reading clinic. ...
Another important distinction from previous studies was that our intervention was performed in a large public health care system serving racially diverse and primarily indigent patients. This patient population has been underrepresented in previous studies of ICU communication.32,34-38 Our findings support...