Rammya Mathew: Digital access has opened the floodgates to patient demand

Imatinib mesylate therapy in chronic myeloid leukaemia: the floodgates opened.

Noninvasive ventilation: has Pandora’s box been opened?

Exacerbations of COPD are the largest single cause of hospital admission with respiratory disease, and are frequently associated with impaired gas exchange and mortality rates of up to 14%. 1 Acute hypercapnic respiratory failure leads to admissions to intensive care units with a mortality rate of 59% at one year. 2 Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is a well established and validated therapy for a...

Pectus patient information website has improved access to care and patient reported outcomes

BACKGROUND Pectus is the most common congenital disorder. Awareness amongst primary care physicians and the general public is poor. NHS commissioning bodies plan to withdraw funding for this surgery because they deem a lack of sufficient evidence of benefit. The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of introducing a patient information website on referral and activity patterns and on p...

Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access

This paper aims to provide a description of the need for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients, an identification of how the lack of CLAS for LEP patients can compromise patient safety and healthcare quality, and discuss barriers to the provision of CLAS.

Patient Choice Has Become the Standard Practice in Healthcare Provision: It is Time to Extend its Meaning; Comment on “Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?”

The key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. In increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or hospitals and treatments—whether they like it or not. However, health care users refer to a wide ...