Hernia referral pathway – Streamlining patient referral pathway to deliver a cost effective, efficient patient centred care
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Time to deliver patient centred care.
Patient centred care is central to the mission of healthcare, yet traditionally neither patients nor the public have had the power to shape the services they use and pay for, or define their value. As a result, many patients find services difficult to navigate, disempowering, burdensome, and seemingly designed to frustrate. There have been repeated calls to enlist patients’ help to reform syste...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2014.07.086