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How Patient Engagement Improves Outcomes: A Fact Sheet 28 Feb 2013 | 06:54 pm
I recently scanned the literature for the Society for Participative Medicine, finding these key conclusions: Domain 1: Patient Experience Participation by inpatients protects against adverse events...
Smaller and faster patient-centered outcomes research: More than 12 years ago 14 Nov 2012 | 10:06 am
I had the pleasure of working with Sue Sheridan at the October PCORI (Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute) workshop , which brought together 150 members of the public to advise on a new ...
Rocky Marciano and Health Care for All's Consumer Health Quality Council 26 Oct 2012 | 03:07 am
The boxer Rocky Marciano retired young, at age 32, unbeaten after 49 victories. So, too, with us: we disbanded the CHQC this week after a six-year run. Or maybe we were more like Sylvester Stallone...
Expectations of surgery: She's grateful, But 18 Oct 2012 | 03:32 am
Alina Tugend's story My father recently had his second knee operation in a year. The first time, things went poorly. His rehabilitation was difficult and months later, he still could not walk well ...
Healthcare acquired infections: Even Pres. Garfield 14 Oct 2012 | 02:37 am
The saddest part of the story of the assassination attempt on Pres. Garfield more than 100 years ago is the medical treatment he received in the months after he was shot. Joseph Lister had recently s...
Ideal care in the Intensive Care Unit: You sleep well 11 Sep 2012 | 09:00 pm
Dr. Peter Pronovost's vision of care in the Intensive Care Unit: Imagine your loved one is admitted to the ICU after cancer surgery, you are actively involved in his or her care at a level comfortabl...
Patient Family Advisory Councils: Two hospitals' success stories 18 Aug 2012 | 02:17 am
Each of the hospitals in Massachusetts now has a Patient/Family Advisory Council (PFAC). The hospitals described their PFACs' activities over the last year, and members of HCFA's Consumer Health Qual...
Enabling vs. self-care for caregivers: Mother Theresa's job is taken 6 Aug 2012 | 09:27 am
Here’s more information Dr. Diana Denholm, author of The Caregiving Wife’s Handbook, shared with me when I interviewed her a few weeks ago: While I was totally unprepared for being a caregiver, as a ...
Privacy about depression on Facebook: Even to online "friends" 3 Aug 2012 | 06:01 am
Alex is one of the young people whose experiences with psychiatric medication Kaitlin Bell Barnett chronicles in her recent book, Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up. Alex, who began taking ant...
Overtreatment for heart conditions: You were right, Dr. Lown 1 Aug 2012 | 10:37 pm
A box of Florida oranges arrived on retired cardiologist Bernard Lown's doorstep last winter from a patient he had seen more than 40 years earlier. The man had come to him for a second opinion after ...
