. 12.00 background: prenatal care is a comprehensive antepartum care program involving a coordinated approach to medical care and psychosocial support that is optimally offered before conception. inadequate care during pregnancy can lead to undesirable outcomes, including preterm labor and low birth weight. one of these new, accurate, and comprehensive indicator measurements is adequacy of pren...

In an effort to reduce cost and improve quality, health care payers have enacted a number of incentives to motivate providers to focus their efforts on achieving better clinical outcomes and reducing the prevalence and progression of disease. In response to these incentives, providers are entering into new arrangements such as accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes to...

From February 2012 until January 2014 an acute medical ward at a 600 bed tertiary hospital in Western Australia conducted an internal audit of youth and adult inpatient separations for patients admitted with complications of severe eating disorders. This cohort exhibited levels of severe malnutrition on par with or more severe than those managed in a specialist service in another state of compa...

The Institute of Medicine's 2014 report Dying in America: Improving quality and honoring individual preferences near the end of life provides recommendations for creating transformational change in the models of end-of-life care delivery, clinician-patient communication, and advance care planning; improving professional education, reforming policies, and payment systems; and engaging and educat...

The MedHome Portal is a web site aimed at providing information and resources to primary care physicians and families to improve care of children with special health care needs and support the Medical Home model of comprehensive care. Its development is a collaborative effort among a University's Department of Pediatrics and its Health Sciences Library, the state Department of Health, a family ...

BACKGROUND Intermediate care is a health care model developed to optimize the coordination of health care services and functional independence. In Central Norway, an intermediate care hospital (ICH) was established in a municipality to improve hospital discharge and follow-up among elderly patients with chronic conditions and comprehensive care needs. The aim of this study was to investigate th...

a University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 800 NE 10th St., Oklahoma City, OK, 73014, USA b NYU School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, 240 East 38th Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA c UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1600 Divisadero St., 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA d University of Virginia Health System, PO Box 800712, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA e Univ...

Comprehensive conservative (nondialytic) kidney care is widely recognized and delivered but until recently, has not been clearly defined. We provide a clear definition of comprehensive conservative care. This includes interventions to delay progression of kidney disease and minimize complications as well as detailed communication, shared decision making, advance care planning, and psychologic a...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that presents with muscle weakness, causing progressive difficulty in movement, communication, eating and ultimately, breathing, creating a growing dependence on family members and other carers. The ideal way to address the problems associated with the disease, and the decisions that must be taken, is through multidi...