Prescription errors include wrong patient, wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong frequency, wrong route, transcription errors, inadequate review of ordered drug, and insufficient review of medication for appropriate prescription. Dispensing errors include improper preparation of medication, failure to properly formulate medications, dispensing expired medications, mislabeling containers, wrong patient, wrong dose, et cetera. Administration errors include wrong […]
Financial statements shade a picture of financial health of an organization. Important parts of the financial statement of a health care organization are ratios. Analysis of ratios show how two numbers relate or compare to one another. Ratios are a way for organizations to make assessment. These comparisons not only encompass what is happening presently […]
Early evidence on primary care models has shown is promising outcomes. The patient-centered medical home pilot test at Geisinger Health System reduced hospitalization by 20 percent and overall cost trends by 7 percent in its first year (Paulus, R.A., Davis, K., and Steele, G.D., 2008). The North Carolina Community Care Model (NCCCM) of medical homes […]
Healthcare quality report cards have been said to help stimulate or raise the standard of care by enabling healthcare providers to deliver cost-effective care without sacrificing quality. This ensures that healthcare consumers get the required standard of care even as healthcare providers control their costs. A range of mechanisms are being used in the United […]
People who work in the health system can be resistant to learning from other sectors. They may claim that health care is different, and it is hard to argue otherwise when looking at the range and diversity of the stakeholders and the ways in which authority is distributed between them. But some challenges are common […]
Practice guidelines can have adverse implications for clinicians, especially if they are rigidly enforced by payers, managers, or malpractice courts. They can have adverse policy implications for society if they increase the costs of care, decrease equity, or divert resources from more effective health care interventions. Evidence-based medicine (EBM), Through its Agency for Healthcare Research […]
United States has continually to become more diverse demographically, with racial and ethnic minorities, predictable to become most of the U.S. population by 2042. A culturally competent system of care acknowledges and incorporates–at all levels–the importance of culture and ethics, the assessment of cross-cultural relations, vigilance towards the dynamics that result from cultural differences, […]
According to Oregon Health & Science University’s description on origin of health development (n.d.), “David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., in 1989, first reported the relationship between birth weight and death rates from coronary heart disease in both men and women in Hertfordshire, UK.” The resulted research proved that amongst adults with a birth weight ranging […]
Nejad, S. B., Allegranzi, B., Syed, S. B., Ellis, B., & Pittet, D. (2011). Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review. Bulletin Of The World Health Organization, 89(10), 757-765. doi:10.2471/BLT.11.088179 The article by Nejad, Allegranzi, Syed, Ellis & Pittet (2011) aimed at assessing the epidemiological approach of healthcare related infection in Africa. Three best, scholarly […]
Physicians who take a patient-centered orientation, attitude are more likely to treat patients like close associates and assist them in making informed choices among several options. This technique has been linked with a range of helpful outcomes, such as keen patient satisfaction, better adherence, and improved health outcomes. In terms of legislative health policy implementation, […]