BACKGROUND The multidisciplinary approach in the management of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has been shown to provide superior care to devolved care, with better survival, improved quality of care, and quality of life. Access to expert multidisciplinary management should be a standard for patients with ALS. This analysis explores the patient journey from symptom onset and first engagemen...

Introduction: The objective of this project was to engage survivor–advocates by describing their experiences living with lung cancer in an era of increasing treatment options. Methods: This was a qualitative engagement project with participants from a lung cancer advocacy organization’s survivor advisory board. Interviews were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed for stages and associated exper...

background: if you want to start a long journey towards patient safety, you should create a good culture of patient safety among employees alongside structural interventions. the first step in doing so is the assessment of current culture in the organization using different tools. one of the most commonly used instruments of measuring patient safety culture is hospital survey of patient safety ...

The Clinical Argument The deficit in stroke is neurological but the cause is vascular, complications are medical, and treatment should be multidisciplinary: no single aspect is overriding. Stroke patients require holistic care, expertly delivered. Neither American nor European stroke management guidelines mandate that a neurologist should deliver care.1,2 Let us examine the neurologist’s potent...

We cannot ensure timely access to care without having the right providers and support services in place all along the patient journey – not just the surgeons but the whole team of professionals in our hospitals, in rehab and home care and behind the scenes in planning, sharing information and keeping the workforce healthy and productive. – Michael Decter, Chair, Health Council of Canada (June 2...

In this work, we address the problem of online travel time prediction in the context of a bus journey. That is, a journey may be ongoing in the sense that journey events already indicated the progress of the bus on its route. For such an ongoing journey, we are interested in the current prediction of the traveling time from the current bus stop to some destination via a particular sequence of s...

Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA), a leading cause of chronic pain and disability, affects an estimated 32.5 million adults in the United States. OA patients receive care from various physician specialties, including orthopedists (OS), rheumatologists (RH), sports medicine (SM) physicians, specialists (PS). Current treatments for knee target symptoms with conservative lifestyle measures pharmac...

OBJECTIVE To describe a one-stop, integrated rheumatology service and assess patient satisfaction. METHODS A descriptive report and patient satisfaction survey of a rheumatology clinic model first developed in 1996 to enhance the patient "journey" through rheumatology services. A patient-satisfaction survey over a 3-week period assessed several aspects of care including quality of services, c...