BACKGROUND People with severe mental illness suffer more physical comorbidity than the general population, which can require a tailored approach to physical health care discussions within mental health care planning. Although evidence pertaining to service user and carer involvement in mental health care planning is accumulating, current understanding of how physical health is prioritised withi...

BACKGROUND Hospital discharge is a vulnerable transitional stage in patient care. This qualitative study investigated the views of healthcare professionals and patients about the threats to safe hospital discharge with aim of identifying contributory and latent factors. The study was undertaken in two regional health and social care systems in the English National Health Service, each comprisin...

background: in recent century, planning is one of the most important care skills for health service development. nurses should be ready scientifically for managing situations in order to develop and perform appropriate models for patient care. it is necessary for manager to know about the process and standards of planning and how to apply them in real conditions. with regard to importance of he...

OBJECTIVES Population ageing and the increasing burden of chronic conditions challenge traditional metrics of assessing the efficacy of health care interventions and as a consequence policy and planning. Using chronic heart failure (CHF) as an exemplar this manuscript seeks to describe the importance of patient-reported outcomes to inform policy decisions. METHODS The method of an integrative...

The Institute of Medicine's National Cancer Policy Forum recently convened a workshop on patient-centered cancer treatment planning, with the aim of raising awareness about this important but often overlooked aspect of cancer treatment. A primary goal of patient-centered treatment planning is to engage patients and their families in meaningful, thorough interactions with their health care provi...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic cancer is widely recognized as one of the most formidable cancer diagnoses. However, whether aggressive treatment is undertaken or not, it is critical for all care providers to understand the treatment plan. Survivorship care plans are a new trend in improving communication between the providers and the patient. OBJECTIVES The current article will outline the pathophysio...

Background : One of the indices of health care development is the use of HIS, but it is not supporting the nursing process as a scientific method. So, this study was done in order to optimize Hospital Information System (HIS) in cardiac care unit with the approach of “nursing care using scientific method”. Materials and Methods: This study is a part of a participatory action research which w...

The outpatient clinic is one of the most important departments hospital. Since elective care trajectories start here, with a consultation between provider and patient, functions as gate to enter Outpatient evolving rapidly around concentration low- high-complex digitization processes, thus introducing new challenges in organization care. In this chapter we introduce concept access waiting time,...