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December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between use of electronic health record components and the quality of care received by patients. Researchers found no consistent relationship between elements of electronic health records and quality of care.
December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
There is evidence that interpersonal experiences of minority patients with HIV care providers can be positive. While access to care facilities is less readily available to minorities, African-American patients report favorable communication with care providers.
November 12, 2009 | Evaluation
The evaluation of Partnerships for Quality Education (PQE) consisted of a survey of 63 project directors in order to define the specific managed care competencies and related patient care tasks that residence program directors expected residents to learn as a result of the new training.
February 27, 2006 | Journal Article
The experience of frailty for persons aged 70 or older was examined in the current study. The 754 study participants were part of the Precipitating Events Project that followed older persons over a period of 54 months. Frailty was defined as the pre ...
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors performed a structured literature review to enhance understanding of factors that both impede and enhance disclosure of medical errors. They performed a MEDLINE search of related articles published between 1975 and 2004, which yielded 5, ...
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The question motivating this research was to assess whether the same goals for controlling type 2 diabetes in the general population should be used in controlling the disease in older patients. If the answer was no, what criteria should be used to a ...
June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors present a real-life case in which a patient's spinal cord compression was delayed to illustrate how "situational awareness" (SA) can be used to understand diagnostic errors in medicine. SA is defined as "a person's perception of the elem ...
March 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Physicians can be more confident in their approach to ethical challenges in patient care if they adopt a systematic approach to address the issues. The authors recognize that a problem which initially appears to be ethical in nature may be more rela ...
July 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Advance directives—an individual's instructions for medical decision-making if the individual is not competent to make decisions—have not met expectations since their introduction about 25 years ago. The authors discuss problems with advance directi ...
September 1, 2008 | Journal Article
In this study, patients were screened for unhealthy alcohol use to determine the affect primary care counseling had on improving their perceived quality of care.