The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a primary care model that provides coordinated and comprehensive care to patients to improve health outcomes. This paper addresses practical issues that arise when transitioning a traditional primary care practice into a PCMH recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Individual organizations' experiences with this transition w...

This parameter presents overarching principles and practices for child and adolescent mental health care in community systems of care. Community systems of care are defined broadly as comprising the wide array of child-serving agencies, programs, and practitioners (both public and private), in addition to natural community supports such as religious and consumer organizations. Recommended princ...

OBJECTIVE To assess and analyze the associations between adherence to treatment and social position in women living with HIV/AIDS. METHOD A cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational study among 269 Colombian women was conducted. Participants completed three questionnaires: a socio-demographic and clinical characteristics survey, a treatment adherence scale, and a social position survey. R...

INTRODUCTION We determined whether family physicians (FPs) who distribute free sample medications are more likely to prescribe those medications than physicians who do not. METHODS We reviewed administrative health plan prescription data of three similar clinics with 23 FPs within a comprehensive health care delivery system. Only clinic X physicians dispensed free sample medications. To deter...

After extensive community and health industry consultation, the final report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission, A healthier future for all Australians, was presented to the Australian Government on 30 June 2009. The reform agenda aims to tackle major access and equity issues that affect health outcomes for people now; redesign our health system so that it is better position...

BACKGROUND What matters to people in their everyday experiences of living with asthma is influenced by a diverse range of personal, social, medical and environmental factors. Previous reviews of the asthma literature have largely focused on medical aspects of asthma or specific population groups with particular needs. OBJECTIVE To identify, describe and synthesize from the available qualitati...

Determining what obstacles diabetes specialist teams face when providing services for patients with diabetic ketoacidosis has not previously been determined on a national scale. Between May and November 2014 a survey of all 220 UK diabetes specialist teams was conducted to assess their ability to provide comprehensive care for adult patients presenting with ketoacidosis [1] (see Appendix S1). S...

OBJECTIVE This work evaluated nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward individuals with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. METHODOLOGY This was a transversal, descriptive study carried out with a randomly selected group of nursing students (N = 122) from Bangalore, India, in 2013. The study used the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge scale (30 questions with true-false options) and the Atti...

Stroke still causes high levels of human inability and suffering, and it is one of the main causes of death in developed countries, including Portugal. OBJECTIVE analyze the strategies of hospital discharge planning for these patients, increasing the knowledge related to hospitalhome transition, discharge planning processes and the main impact on the quality of life and functionality. METHO...

In this era of increasing civil rights successes for gays and lesbians, transgender individuals are often overlooked. Simopoulos and Khin present guidance for correctional institutions in the comprehensive care of transgender inmates. Their analysis of the legal, medical, and psychiatric concerns for incarcerated transgender and gender-nonconforming people improves professional understanding of...