Session 38: How Patient-Friendly is Patient-Friendly? A Global Overview

Patient-friendly billing.

Patient-friendly IVF: how should it be defined?

"Patient-friendly" IVF must be associated with a healthy newborn achieved in a safe, cost-effective, and timely manner. Patients are best served when physicians provide honest appraisal of treatment techniques and outcomes using the evidence available from scientific study.

'Opt-out' testing lacks patient-friendly system.

The hugely welcome government-led initiative to pro-actively offer 'opt-out' HIV testing to patients at its clinics and hospitals needs hefty back-up resources to ensure patient retention and earlier presentation.

Literature Review on Patient-Friendly Documentation Systems

6 Survey of laymen/expert (e.g. patient/doctor) ontology translation systems 60 7 Empirical studies with patients on information provision 62 7.

Toward patient-friendly cell-level dosimetry.

Dosimetry for targeted radionuclide therapy is a relatively young field. Although initial work can be traced back to the late 1940s (1), the MIRD Committee formalism that forms the foundation for most current approaches was published in the mid 1970s (2), and the drive for improved dosimetry to meet the requirements of targeted radionuclide therapy did not begin until the 1980s. During this per...