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Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Seeks Comments on Draft National...
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has released its first draft national priorities for research and research agenda for public comment. PCORI was created by the Patient...
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National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality: Powerful Partnerships...
This guide from the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality provides examples of parents of children with special health care needs as “powerful partners” with health care providers,...
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American Medical Association Foundation: Health Literacy and Patient Safety –...
This manual from the American Medical Association Foundation describes the importance of effective communication between physicians and patients, especially when there are communication barriers due to...
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Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research: Health Literacy Universal...
This toolkit from the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research is designed for physicians and other clinicians to take a “universal precautions” approach to health literacy, using improved...
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Cautious Patient Foundation: How to Get Best Care – General Advice
This guide from the Cautious Patient Foundation provides an overview of various topics and issues related to how patients can be more engaged in their own health care. It includes checklists,...
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Cautious Patient Foundation: How to Get Best Care as an Outpatient
This guide from the Cautious Patient Foundation describes how patients can be more prepared and engaged in outpatient visits with their physicians and other health care providers. The Cautious Patient...
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Cautious Patient Foundation: How to Get Best Care as a Hospital Patient
This guide from the Cautious Patient Foundation describes how patients can be better prepared and more engaged as patients admitted to hospitals. It also provides useful advice about patient safety,...
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What My Father Taught Me About Health and Health Care, About Life and Death
Three months ago, my father Andrew Shih Lun Bau passed away, peacefully, in his own home. Next week, on Christmas Day, we would have celebrated his 93rd birthday. As someone who now seeks to improve...
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Commission to End Health Care Disparities: Appropriate Use of Physician’s...
The Commission to End Health Care Disparities has released this publication on the appropriateness of physicians using their language skills in languages other than English while providing clinical...
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National Committee for Quality Assurance: Patient-Centered Specialty Practice...
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has released standards to recognize specialty practices as “Patient-Centered Specialty Practices”. These standards complement NCQA’s standards for...
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Brookings Institution: Bending the Curve – Person-Centered Health Care Reform
This framework for health care reform from the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution makes proposals for bending the cost curve of health care while making health care...
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Health 2.0 v.2013: Integration and Patient Outcomes Are Still Driving Health...
I attended my third Health 2.0 conference earlier this week, which was held for the first time in Santa Clara rather than San Francisco [agenda here]. Driving around the neighborhood reminded me that...
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National Quality Forum: Call for Nominations for Committee on Person- and...
The National Quality Forum (NQF) is seeking nominations for a new standing committee to review and recommend healthcare quality performance measures related to person- and family-centered care for NQF...
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Blue Shield of California Foundation: Building Better Health Care for...
“This may yet be the greatest test of our healthcare system – whether we can effectively bring patients into the conversation, instead of leaving the debate to politics, payers, and providers. We hope...
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Blue Shield of California Foundation: Health Care in California – Leveling...
This report summarizes research commissioned by the Blue Shield of California Foundation on the experiences and attitudes of low-income patients in California. Among the report’s findings: + Only 49...
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Final Rule on Patient Access to...
This final regulation published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in February 2014 clarifies that patients have the right to directly receive their own laboratory results, overcoming...
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Request for Comments on Proposed...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is seeking comments on proposed changes to the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Clinician and Group Survey and the CAHPS...
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Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative: The Patient-Centered Medical...
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPPC) has published its 2015 edition of its annual review of the evidence for improving quality and reducing costs through patient-centered medical...
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John Snow Inc.: National Approaches to Whole-Person Care in the Safety Net
This discussion paper prepared by John Snow, Inc., in collaboration with the California Association of Public Hospitals and California Health Care Safety Net Institute, defines whole-person care as the...
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John Snow, Inc.: Opportunities for Whole-Person Care in California
This discussion paper prepared by John Snow, Inc., in collaboration with the California Association of Public Hospitals and California Health Care Safety Net Institute, defines whole-person care as the...
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