Improving Patient Access to Medical Services: Preventing the Patient from Being Lost in Translation
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Improving patient access to medical services: preventing the patient from being lost in translation.
The Medical Access to Service project was initiated to broadly engage participants in the health system to collectively improve service integration and patient access to primary care and specialist medical services. The Conference Model (the Axelrod Group, Willmette, IL) was used as a change vehicle. The ideal design was translated into the creation of central access and triage (CAT) processes ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Healthcare Quarterly
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1929-6347
DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2009.21100