Assessing Patient-centered Care: One Approach to Health Disparities Education

Does Patient-Centered Care affect Racial Disparities in Health?

A Patient-centered Approach to Health Care Fraud Recovery

This Article begins with a simple premise: Health care fraud hurts patients. From that premise fiows a simple corollary: efforts to combat health care fraud should, if possible, remedy this patient harm. Despite its intuitive appeal, this syllogism does not represent current practice. Funds recovered through health care fraud enforcement are distributed to the Medicare Tmst Fund, to the federal...

Patient - Centered Health Care

As the United States debates how to reorganize its health care system, policy makers must ask what patients really want and need from their primary care providers. There is often a disconnect between what patients say they want and what other providers or payers think patients want. Our research at the National Partnership for Women and Families suggests that a truly patient-centered health car...

Creating patient-centered health care systems to improve outcomes and reduce disparities

Health care delivery systems that are designed to understand and meet patient preferences for care have the potential to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities. Studies that rigorously assess patient care preferences in minority and underserved populations, stakeholder engagement, and policies that promote a diverse health care workforce that can address patient preferences are importan...

Patient-centered Fertility Care: From Theory to Practice

Background & aim: Healthcare areas, especially fertility care (commonly accompanied with high emotions, as well as long-term and recurring treatment periods) could exclusively benefit from patient-centered care (PCC). Despite evident advantages of PCC, this approach has not been practiced as a routine procedure in current clinical environments yet, even in western developed countries. Therefore...