Shared Accountability For Surgical Patients

Making a case for shared accountability.

An Information Accountability Framework for Shared eHealth Policies

Privacy issues have hindered the evolution of e-health since its emergence. Patients demand better solutions for the protection of private information. Health professionals demand open access to patient health records. Existing e-health systems find it difficult to fulfill these competing requirements. In this paper, we present an information accountability framework (IAF) for e-health systems....

Reducing avoidable rehospitalization in ESRD: a shared accountability.

The issue of rehospitalization captured the attention of hospitals and other health care providers when the Readmission Reduction Program was implemented on October 1, 2012, as authorized under Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act.1 This program was based on a study of rehospitalization rates by Jencks et al.,2 which highlighted inadequate care coordination by hospitals in Medicare patient h...

Surgical treatment for patients with tracheal and subgllotic stenosis

  Abstract   Background: Iatrogenic airway injury after endotracheal intubation and tracheotomy   remains a serious clinical problem. In this study we reviewed post-intubation and traumatic tracheal stenosis in 47 patients with a special attention to the cause, hense surgical treatment of the stenosis was performed and the results compared with the literatures.   Methods: Since February 1995 th...

Physician engagement and shared accountability. Buzzwords, dilemma or choice?