National Love Your Patients Day, Feb. 7, Reminds Health Care Professionals...

PR Newswire;  January 19, 2005 ;     787 words ......is most important in health care: patients, and their values and...written to appeal to patients and health care professionals alike...aspect of improving health care, contact the Love Your Patients! institute at (301...

Cost constraints as a malpractice defense. (should health care providers...

The Hastings Center Report;  February 1, 1988 ;   Morreim, E. Haavi;   787 words ......particular, how should health care's economic revolution...physicians owe their patients? The standard of...physicians, and other health care providers are being...to do less for patients, to perform more...most lucrative patients into their own...dump nonpaying ...

HEALTH CARE AGENDA PUTS PATIENTS FIRST

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 18, 2007 ;     434 words ......Rising costs of health care are forcing Wisconsin...is backing a "Patients First" Health Care Reform Agenda...government's role in health care have all shown...more choices. The "Patients First" Health Care...Transparency of Health Care ...

UNC Health Care: We share patients' frustration

The Independent Weekly;  January 31, 2007 ;   Roper, William L;   787 words ......year UNC Health Care served nearly 400,000 patients from all...serve our patients. As all of UNC Health Care's changes take hold, patients will experience...that afflict patients. That is...escalating health care costs. But...

GIVE PATIENTS AUTHORITY IN HEALTH CARE

Dayton Daily News;  August 5, 2003 ;   Kevin Lamb;   603 words ......checkbook. If health- care providers aren...responsive to patients, it's because...diverted to actual health care, she says. Patients wouldn't stand...as educated patients learn what to...to improving health-care quality would...

Joint Commission Issues Alert: Simple Steps By Patients, Health Care...

U.S. Newswire;  December 4, 2001 ;     325 words ......news conference to advise the health care community and patients about an alarming number of...can protect themselves and health care practitioners can avert mistakes...nation's leading evaluator of health care quality and patient safety...

E-Health's Influence Continues to Grow as Usage of the Internet by...

PR Newswire;  February 11, 2003 ;     787 words ......channel for reaching patients with chronic or...most attractive to health care players. E-health...own role in their health care. E-health's impact...pronounced among patients whose conditions...physicians and patients, elaborates co...Lovich. As a result, ...

MACK: PROTECT PATIENTS, REJECT GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED HEALTH CARE

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  July 14, 1999 ;     617 words ......1999 MACK: PROTECT PATIENTS, REJECT GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED HEALTH CARE Washington-U.S...Republican plan protects patients, enhances health care quality and expands...percent rise in health care costs. The Republican Patients Bill of Rights...

Can patients really be health care consumers?

Employee Benefit News;  September 1, 2004 ;     787 words ......involved in their health care. Consider the...child's ear. Many patients don't know what...the ability of patients to be effective consumers of health care, or effective patients, regardless of...part of that is health care illiteracy, and...savings and better ...

U.S. Patients Spend More but Don't Get More, Study Finds; Even in...

The Washington Post;  May 5, 2004 ;   Ceci Connolly;   787 words ...Although they spend more on health care than patients in any other industrialized...that we spend $1.4 trillion on health care and get it right only half...spending a lot of money on health care that is not getting us what...

Rx for health care costs: Last in a series: Force patients to...

Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX);  December 3, 2006 ;     787 words ......great hope for containing health care costs. But if it's going to work, consumer-driven health care will have to fit somewhere...costs, but it didn't help. Patients would resist higher payments...deeply in their hearts that health care should be free for everybody...trillion ...

Patients have no risk of contracting AIDS virus from health care workers,...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 16, 1995 ;   Vedantam, Shankar;   701 words ......complementing the health care system for...protecting patients, researchers...revealed that 42 health care workers are...positive health care workers and their patients. The findings...risks of patients acquiring AIDS in a health-care setting...

Specialty Mental Health Care Improves Patients' Outcomes: Findings from a...

Journal of Studies on Alcohol;  September 1, 2000 ;   MOOS, RUDOLF H. FINNEY, JOHN W. FEDERMAN, ELIZABETH B. SUCHINSKY, RICHARD;   787 words ......On average, patients who received...outpatient mental health care experienced...whether or not patients received specialty...outpatient mental health care and, if so...versus those of patients who obtain specialty mental health care. Patients w

Effect of literacy on patients' ability to obtain health care. (adapted...

American Family Physician;  May 15, 1996 ;     464 words ......the ability of patients to function in health care situations requiring...administered to patients presenting to the...one-fifth of all patients who had graduated...marginal in terms of health care literacy. The authors...The burden is on health care ...

New Website Gives Patients Control Over Their Health Care.

PR Newswire;  January 12, 2004 ;     532 words ......of their own health care. The website...experts, gives patients personalized...The result: patients aren't receiving quality health care -- the right...that gives patients personalized...quality of their health care. Funded by...