Continuity of care: important, but only the first step

Continuity of care: important, but only the first step

Continuity of care is critical to achieving the best outcomes, especially for patients with chronic conditions. Israel's strong commitment to primary care as a central organizing concept of the health system, accompanied by investments in health information technology and training primary care physicians, has contributed to its impressive levels of continuity of care. Taking the next steps towa...

Disclosure: only a first step.

Continuity of care is very important.

Patient satisfaction is itself a major patient outcome, not something separate. Prospective randomised trials in this field can be unethical, so that much of the available evidence is observational. However, two randomised controlled trials have been done and both were positive for continuity of care.2,3 Numerous international studies reveal that continuity of generalist care is significantly a...

A Safe Step, but Only a First Step, in an Integrated Approach to Improving Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival

Approximately 330 000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) occur annually in the United States; in essence, there are nearly 1000 OHCA events each day.1 However, despite the presence of extensive emergency medical response systems (especially in heavily populated regions) and aggressive steps by both professional organizations and private industry to enhance public awareness of the magnitude...

POVMs: a small but important step beyond standard quantum mechanics

It is the purpose of the present contribution to demonstrate that the generalization of the concept of a quantum mechanical observable from the Hermitian operator of standard quantum mechanics to a positive operator-valued measure is not a peripheral issue, allegedly to be understood in terms of a trivial nonideality of practical measurement procedures, but that this generalization touches the ...