In 2002, Kaiser Permanente (KP) launched its Women’s Health Center of Excellence in Culturally Competent Care in the KP Northern California Region’s Greater Southern Alameda Area (GSAA) Service Area, which includes the KP Fremont and Hayward Medical Centers. The KP National Diversity Program Offices’ Institute for Culturally Competent Care made this designation of excellence possible. The Insti...

OBJECTIVE To determine the health care seeking behavior of TB patients in seeking care and health care providers for delivering care. DESIGN Cross sectional descriptive survey. The interviewers administered a standardized open-ended questionnaire after training and pre-testing. SETTING Federal Government TB Center, Rawalpindi. (specialized TB clinic). SUBJECT One hundred and sixty newly r...

From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Diego, Medical Center, San Diego (P.F.F.); and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. (V.F.T.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Fedullo at the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Diego, Medical Center, 93...

Drug and poison information centers have a critical role in fulfillment of rational drug use programs. The Loghman-Hakim Drug and Poison Information Center (LHDPIC) has been established in 2006. The main mission of this center is to provide accurate, unbiased and upto- date information on medications and poisons for the health care team and the public. This center has received more than 9000 te...

Objective The purpose of this commentary is to propose a flexible practice innovations decision model (PIDM) for use in health services planning and management. Method This is an example of fuzzy decision analysis. The elements of the model are explained by applying it to the decision of whether to open a primary care clinic in retail space. The model contains 10 criteria, each of which score...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multisystem, life-shortening genetic disease that requires complex care. To facilitate this expert, multidisciplinary care, the CF Foundation established a Care Center Network and accredited the first care centres in 1961. This model of care brings together physicians and specialists from other disciplines to provide care, facilitate basic and clinical research, and ed...

Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) have emerged as laboratories in which to address important primary care challenges. In 2011, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's PBRN database included more than 130 networks, most regional and some national, with member practices in every state. Regional networks may have certain advantages over national networks with respect to practice re...

OBJECTIVE To determine if the treatment of stunted children offered at a specialized center influences their cognitive performance. METHODS Two groups of children from vulnerable families were selected, one consisting of stunted children being treated at the Nutrition Education and Recovery Center (CREN), and the other group of eutrophic children from a local, public day care center. At CREN,...