Patient Blood Management: An Internist's Perspective

Why management and leadership education for internists?

Around the world, there is an increasing need for more efficiency in healthcare alongside cost containment. Internal medicine physicians are in a pivotal position in this regard. In many countries, they act as bridges between ambulatory/continuity of care systems and hospital-based intensive care and sophisticated therapies. Within the medical field, they often bridge gaps between many speciali...

Patient blood management

Patient Perspective: An Interview

Case report In late 2007, “PS,” an 83-year-old woman living in Winthrop, Washington, discovered a small lump in her right breast. Traveling at the time, she did not immediately see a doctor but watched the lump grow over the course of 6 months until it metastasized. In the following interview, PS tells the story of how her treatment regime—integrating individualized conventional chemotherapy ad...

Patient blood management in Europe

Preoperative anaemia is common in patients undergoing orthopaedic and other major surgery. Anaemia is associated with increased risks of postoperative mortality and morbidity, infectious complications, prolonged hospitalization, and a greater likelihood of allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion. Evidence of the clinical and economic disadvantages of RBC transfusion in treating perioperativ...

Patient Relationship Management Method, an Approach toward Patient Satisfaction: A Case Study in a Public Hospital

Introduction: The aim of this project is to investigate the concepts of patient relationship management (PRM), patient satisfaction and their relationship. As healthcare industry has its own complexity, the so well defined idea in marketing which is CRM could not be implemented directly in health industry. Consequently the concept of PRM has been introduced. Metho...