Raising the Standard: Practice Guidelines and Consumer Participation

Raising the standard: practice guidelines and consumer participation.

Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly affecting the quality of health care, and have the potential to affect the availability of health care options for consumers. Deciding what guidelines will cover, how they will be developed and what they will say are, therefore, issues in which consumers have a considerable stake. While there is a growing acknowledgement of the need to involve consu...

Clinical practice guidelines and the standard of care.

ASHP guidelines: Minimum standard for ambulatory care pharmacy practice.

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis in health systems on the provision of ambulatory care services. Payers have created incentives to decrease hospitalization rates and length of stay, making way for a new shift toward pay-for-performance, outcomes-based reimbursement, and accountable care. There is also an increasing focus in medicine on preventive health, patient education,...

Raising girls’ participation in A-level mathematics: initial findings from ‘good practice’ case studies

Fewer girls than boys in England participate in post-compulsory mathematics and the recent increase in popularity of Mathematics and Further Mathematics (FM) at age 16 has not changed the gender balance. Previous studies have shown the significance to girls of their mathematics lessons and teachers, of discursive co-constructions of masculinity and mathematics, of the range of careers associate...

Consumer Participation in Commercial Hospitality

Purpose of this paper This paper examines customers’ participation in the production of commercial hospitality. Drawing on a study of queer consumers (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals), the paper considers the ways in which frequently circulated understandings, or myths, shaped consumers’ actions. The case study is used to highlight previously under examined dimen...