Toward Lucid Health Care

Attitude toward Spirituality, Spiritual Care, and its Relationship with Mental Health among Intensive Care Nurses

Background and Objectives: Spirituality and spiritual care, as essential components of holistic nursing care, are widely recognized, while spiritual aspect is still overlooked. Spirituality has been associated with the caregiver’s sense of well-being and ability to cope. The aim of this study was to determine attitude of intensive care nurses toward spirituality and spiritual care and its relat...

Slouching toward value-based health care.

Health Care D e s p i t e s om e r e c e n t moderation, health care costs continue to grow at rates exceeding those of the larger economy, as documented in the annual assessment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), with which we begin this issue of the journal. Spending growth is not necessarily a problem, assuming the benefits in terms of enhanced health and social well-be...

Toward a more just health care system.

Structured Lucid ∗

Structured Lucid is an ISWIM-like language formed by combining Basic Lucid and USWIM. Structured Lucid is almost a member of the USWIM family, except that a distinction is made between two kinds of function variables: those which denote functions mapping streams (histories) of data objects to streams of data objects, and those which denote streams of functions mapping data objects to data objec...

Can health partnerships re-orientate health care toward prevention?