Nutrition Education for the Health-care Provider Improves Patient Outcomes

Nutrition for the primary care provider

This book focuses on the various nutritional aspects of the current needs of the society at large and for the health practitioners. The book covers a variety of topics in a lucid manner under four distinct sections namely ‘Nutrition for Health’, ‘Nutrition for Special Circumstances’, ‘Nutrition for Disease States’, and ‘Food Policy’. The first section comprises 10 chapters on various aspects of...

Self-management education for adults with asthma improves health outcomes.

Study selection Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) were selected if the patients were predominantly adults with confirmed asthma, the intervention included education related to asthma and its management, and the outcomes included any of hospital admissions, emergency department visits, unscheduled doctor visits, days lost from work or school, forced expiratory volume at 1 second, peak expirato...

Justice in the Health Care Provider and Patient Relationship:

Hemodialysis Patient Outcomes: Provider Characteristics

Background/Aims: Physician characteristics are associated with differential performance on quality measures and patient outcomes in several medical fields. We aimed to determine whether characteristics of physicians who provide care to dialysis patients were associated with patient outcomes. Methods: This cohort study used United States Renal Data System data for patients who initiated in-cente...

Disparities in Patient Experiences, Health Care Processes, and Outcomes: the Role of Patient–provider Racial, Ethnic, and Language Concordance

Ethnic minorities are poorly represented among physicians and other health professionals. In what is called “race-discordant” relationships, patients from ethnic groups frequently are treated by professionals from a different ethnic background. The research reviewed here documents ongoing racial and ethnic disparities in health care and links patient–physician race and ethnic concordance with h...