Care Coordination partnerships: promoting patient choice in primary care

Promoting patient safety in primary care.

Editor—We were both surprised by Wilson et al who, in their editorial, ask everybody to send in reports of their errors. Our concerns remain regardless of whether or not such accounts are published anonymously. After all, the police have used anonymous medical research data in their investigations. A conviction of culpable and reckless behaviour was secured against a man after he had sexual int...

Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?

Patient and user choice are at the forefront of the debate on the future direction of health and public services provision in many industrialized countries in Europe and elsewhere. It is used both, as a means to achieve desired policy goals in public health care systems such as greater efficiency and improved quality of care, and as a good with its own intrinsic value. However, the evidence sug...

Promoting Self-Management and Patient Empowerment in Primary Care

The complexity of health care is increasing, associated with several factors including ag‐ ing populations and expanding comorbidities, growth in options for health interventions and patients’ access to information from electronic and other media. Management of chronic conditions with high morbidity such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic pulmonary disease and depression const...

Promoting exercise in primary care.

Patient-reported care coordination: associations with primary care continuity and specialty care use.

PURPOSE Care coordination is increasingly recognized as a necessary element of high-quality, patient-centered care. This study investigated (1) the association between care coordination and continuity of primary care, and (2) differences in this association by level of specialty care use. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of Medicare enrollees with select chronic conditions in an i...