background patient satisfaction is essential and must be taken into account when decisions are being made about changes and enhancements to services. objectives the aim of the current study was to assess patient satisfaction with the medical and nursing services provided to patients admitted to teaching hospitals affiliated to arak university of medical sciences. materials and methods this was ...

This article describes the development of the Community Connections Program (CCP), a community care team, within a health care home (HCH), as a short-term, intensive, team-based service planning and coordination program for older adults with multiple chronic health conditions. Three proven approaches were combined to support patient's self-management, nurse care coordination, the Wraparound pro...

in the recent years, advances in medical technologies for end stage cancer patients' care have affected the end-of-life decision-making in clinical practice and exposed oncologists to serious ethical dilemmas. but little is known about oncologists' viewpoints in our country regarding their ethical problems in this mention. we aimed to clarify the ethical dilemmas which iranian oncologists may f...

The Institute of Medicine has released several important reports strongly recommending team training to improve patient safety. Most team theory assumes that teams are stable, and leadership is constant. However, there are numerous instances in health care where teams are not stable, and leadership is constantly changing. A growing body of evidence has documented the complexity of interdiscipli...

PURPOSE Project Leonardo represented a feasibility study to evaluate the impact of a disease and care management (D&CM) model and of the introduction of "care manager" nurses, trained in this specialized role, into the primary health care system. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty care managers were placed into the offices of 83 general practitioners and family physicians in the Apulia Region of Ita...

the patient was a 69 year-old man suffering from benign prostatic hypertrophy (bph), who was candidate for transurethral resection of prostate (turp) surgery with 980nm diode laser. at the end of the operation, the surgical team noticed abdominal distention. so with suspicion to an acute abdominal problem he underwent an exploratory laparotomy. during the surgery it was found that patient had e...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The field of team training is quickly evolving and data are emerging to support the close relationship between effective teamwork and patient safety in medicine. This paper provides a review of the literature on team training with specific emphasis on the perspectives of emergency and critical care pediatricians. RECENT FINDINGS Errors in medicine are most frequently due to ...

Palliative care services are increasingly available to primary care physicians for both expert consultations and services to seriously ill patients. The United States now has more than 1400 hospital-based palliative care teams and more than 4700 hospice programs. We use an illustrative case of a palliative care hospitalization and intervention for a middle-aged man with severe pain from spinal ...