How We Will, Not Whether We Can: Improving Health and Healthcare

How We Will, Not Whether We Can: Improving Health and Healthcare

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

How can we know whether antidepressants increase suicide risk?

In this issue of the Journal, Gibbons and colleagues use pharmacy records and mortality data to examine the association between rates of antidepressant use and rates of suicide death in children and younger adolescents. They find that U.S. counties with higher rates of SSRI antidepressant use had lower rates of suicide death, and that this relationship persisted after accounting for potential c...

How we remember what we can do

According to the motor simulation theory, the knowledge we possess of what we can do is based on simulation mechanisms triggered by an off-line activation of the brain areas involved in motor control. Action capabilities memory does not work by storing some content, but consists in the capacity, rooted in sensory-motor systems, to reenact off-line action sequences exhibiting the range of our po...

How can we build skills to transform the healthcare system ?

Across the world, healthcare organisations are implementing radical change strategies in the face of unprecedented financial challenge. In this context, a focus on building capacity and capability for improvement is a key strategy. Global analysis shows that the most common characteristic of healthcare organisations that deliver outstanding performance in cost and quality is a systematic approa...