Patient and care staff communication: The higher this metric is, in general, the better care a patient receives. Patients do best when there’s stellar communication between doctors, nurses, and other staff members. Weave: A Helping Hand for Primary Care Physicians ...
Fragmentation of care happens when there is a lack of coordination and a discontinuity in healthcare services. This is often a function of patients having to seek medical care from different doctors, while these various providers offering health services don’t speak to each other. ...
Conclusions: The case presented here exemplifies how iliopsoas abscess, a rare cause of back pain, can quickly go unrecognized, especially in the emergency department. Our experiences will raise awareness among doctors in emergency departments about this uncommon but essential diagnosis. With advancements...
Internal Medicine Doctors:Internal medicine doctors (or internists) are physicians who have gone through medical school and completed a three-year residency in internal medicine. This provides training in the care of adult and elderly adult patients but doesn’t usually include children. Internists rec...
Katherine Rouleau is a family physician at Unity Health-St-Michael’s Hospital. At the University of Toronto, she is associate professor, Vice-Chair of the Global Health and Social Accountability and director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care in the Department of...
Counseling and listening were mentioned in a positive manner by trainee participants from both study arms: “We had no idea about the counseling before. We used to ask them a few questions and then referred them to doctors or give them suggestion to meet them. But now, we try to ...
their own healthcare expenses. Some participants relied on social grant money for individual or family sustenance but as one participant explained that they“have to always borrow money to go see doctors. Because the social grant money does not cover everything.”(P21, traditional PHC facility)...
(p = 0.004), with the nurse category showing lower values in this domain, as well as between the categories of technical assistants and physicians (p = 0.007) and between technical assistants and doctors in pre-career training (p = 0.015), with the technical assistant category also showing ...
A total of 465 professionals participated in the study, of whom 70.04% were doctors and 29.96% were nurses (one social worker was excluded from the analysis based on field). The mean age was 46.45 years, 81.47% were women, and 66.16% had more than 15 years of professional experience (Tab...
[21]. The legal basis for indicator-based performance assessment of GPs and the rules for evaluating doctors are found in a ministerial decree [24]. Under this rule, the IT network for monitoring was also established, and GPs accepted the monitoring of their performance. This system provides ...