... Accession Number : ADA022238. Title : Consumer Perceptions of Health Care Services: Implications for the Academic Medical Community,. ...

... Title : Can An Academic Health Care System Overcome Barriers to Clinical ... beta-blocker therapy for surgical patients at intermediate to high risk of ...

Discussion of trends in academic medicine focuses on declining support for research, pressures on medical schools to increase clinical revenues, public demands for cheaper care, and rising health-care costs in light of an aging population. Urges establishment of a system of universal health ...

The project provided training experiences to enable health professionals in schools to work together and with school colleagues to provide developmentally appropriate, comprehensive health care. This enhanced the health development and academic success of...

General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit: Academic Unit Financial Report 2008-2009 1 General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit Department of Public Health & Primary Care Institute of Public Health The University of Cambridge General Practice and Primary ...

General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit: Academic Unit Financial Report 2007-2008 1 General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit Department of Public Health & Primary Care Institute of Public Health The University of Cambridge General Practice and Primary ...

US medical care reflects the priorities and influence of academic health centers. This paper describes the leadership role assumed by one academic health center, the State University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and its eight affiliated hospitals, to serve its region ...

the ultimate goal of an academic health sciences center is exemplary patient care as a teaching model, high in the health care team, and of the patient's rights with respect to teaching activities. 1.9 The attending1 BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS IN PATIENT CARE Approved by Board of ...

Prospectus 2008 - 2009. School of Nursing & Midwifery Centre for Health & Social Care Studies and known service needs. These are: Acute and Critical Care Cardiac Care in the Acute and Primary Care of Nursing & Midwifery Acute and Critical Care Title of unit ...

...tutoring, student safety, and health care services must homeliving programs...tutoring, student safety, and health care services must homeliving programs...academic tutoring, recreation, and health care services for their students,...

... Dr. Durmowicz's area of clinical interest is in the care of children and youth with special health care needs. She's practiced in both academic and ...

... Page 18. 18 drug-development companies and health care organizations, to academic institutions and, in ... are essential to both medical care and our public ...

Recent changes in federal policy related to the research, education and patient care missions of the academic health centers are affecting and will continue to affect all components of these institutions including the individual health professions schools...

Factors affecting the optimal size of an integrated health care delivery system in an academic medical center are discussed, including: the institution's structure for survival; technology, innovation, and health care costs; and specific characteristics of the institution's education, research, ...

, opened in 1931, not only provided coordinated medical and surgical care to private patients with moderate Medical Center has evolved into an even broader health care institution, one poised to meet the challenges of health care delivery in the twenty-first century. No longer solely a ...

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Like all health care institutions, the nation's academic health centers are facing the need for fundamental change in structure and opportunity. This article examines the trends in five major areas: research, higher education, specialization, finance, and organization. The impact of these trends on the ...

Palliative Care: Report of Seminar held on 20 September 2006 Compassion without wisdom is inefficient is leading by example and has established the academic base for palliative care in South Africa. Palliative attended, topical and interesting. The keynote address, entitled: Clinical notes on palliative care

in 1931, not only provided coordinated medical and surgical care to private patients with moderate incomes, Duke University Medical Center has evolved into an even broader health care institution, one poised academic medical center where patients are referred almost exclusively for specialty ...

The proceedings of a conference on undergraduate training in the management of elderly patients are presented. Presentations related to student interest in health care of the elderly, medical school curriculums on aging, the academic identity of geriatric...

The factor analytic development of various measures of consumer perceptions regarding characteristics of doctors and health care services is described. Index scores meeting factor analytic and reliability criteria were used to study the importance of cons...

17 Ancillary Issue: Health Care Availability to Women of Childbearing Age assistance and health care services available to low income women of childbearing age in Tennessee Availability to Women of Childbearing Age Currently pregnant women are not eligible for Families First

Treatment Center is verified by the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn Association � UI College of Medicine Paul Rothman, MD Associate VP, UI Health Care, and CEO, UI Hospitals and Clinics, internationally recognized academic medical center that includes: � University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

sensitive health data. The HIPAA-mandated rules now force all health care organizations, data handlers and the Academic Health Center in a Value- driven Health Care System #12;Contents Introduction and Value-driven Health ...

Objective: Regardless of the outcome of current efforts at healthcare reform, the resources that academic health centers need--to provide care for increasingly complex patient populations, support clinical innovation, grow the clinical enterprise, and carry out their research and teaching missions--are in jeopardy. This article ...

... as a public service by the University of Maryland Medical System, a regional health care delivery system ... includes an academic medical center (the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore) as well as ...

... While cardiovascular complications remain a leading cause of perioperative morbidity ... patients with a history of insulin-dependent diabetes (-4.0, P ...

... VA has not entered into a joint venture with an academic affiliate to date. However, several proposals for such joint ventures have surfaced in the ...

Academic medical centers (AMCs; i.e., teaching hospitals) play a vital role in the U.S. health care system by pursuing a four-part, synergistic mission of clinical care, research, education, and community health. Historically, AMCs have used margins from clinical care to ...

In an attempt to reduce the lengthy process of translating scientific findings into clinical practice, the United States and several European governments are making substantial investments in health information technology, comparative effectiveness research, and increased access to quality health care. New technologies-genomics in ...

This report describes a clinic run by a federally-qualified health center and an academic medical center. The clinic expands the community's primary care capacity, combining advantages of big and small settings, and of its dual affiliation. Survey data suggest the clinic prevents health care ...

Major changes in academic health centers (AHCs) may not be confined to the United States. Both Partners HealthCare System in Boston and University College London School of Medicine/University College Hospital Trust in London have recently undergone mergers, downsizing, and cost cutting on unprecedented scales. A comparison of the ...

A graduate academic program in medical information science has been established at the University of California, San Francisco, for the education of scientists capable of performing research and development in information technology in the health care set...

Skyrocketing health care costs and the existence of increasing numbers of uninsured Americans have compelled the country to focus considerable attention on health system reform. Numerous Congressional leaders, associations, academics, and health policy an...

cost effective methods to decrease the health and financial burden diabetes place on the CommonwealthThe Effects of a University-Based Academic Detailing Program for Primary Care Providers on Hemoglobin A1c Assessment Frequency in Type II Diabetics Chris Maloy University of Kentucky #12;Academic

Decreased public funding, a competitive healthcare market, and higher patient care costs have been blamed for the present financial challenges that confront academic health centers. The authors examined the costs associated with graduate medical education, particularly, indirect medical education expenses in the operating room. The ...

Interdisciplinary health care training is advocated by numerous government and philanthropic organizations. Educators in the health professions are increasingly offering training in interdisciplinary health care in a variety of contexts, including ambulatory settings. This paper describes a ...

Providing primary care to children of culturally diverse populations is a challenge for pediatric nurse practitioners and educators. The challenge is intensified when providing care to Hispanic children who are uprooted because their parent(s) are migrant farm workers. The creation of health-focused academic ...

Client visits to an academic community nursing center (n=25,495) were coded and analyzed. Results show expansion of nursing practice and services, strong case management, and management of illness care. The usefulness of computerized clinical documentation system and of the Lundeen conceptional model of community nursing care was ...

, education, and care at the new home for University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital. The campaign Amplatz Children's Hospital is Minnesota's first and only academic pediatric hospital engaged in basic for those who support children's health research, education, and care at University of Minnesota Amplatz

Academic practice partnerships in practice research support health social workers in engaging in research that is embedded within their practice. This shift in culture enables social workers to join in a health service discourse that is increasingly data -driven and focused on effective practice and demonstrated quality of ...

Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General, and the subsequent National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health, contributed significantly to raising awareness regarding the lack of access to oral health care by many Americans, especially minority and low-income populations, with resulting disparities in ...

Much has been published in the health care literature describing partnerships between academic institutions and community or health care agencies that are designed to improve health outcomes in medically underserved populations. However, little has been published regarding ...

There is a critical need for research to examine the changing mental health services system, to evaluate major innovations in the provision of mental health treatment, and to remove existing barriers to comprehensive and cost-effective care. To achieve these aims, collaboration is needed among government agencies, mental ...

Most proposals to reform health care delivery center on a robust, well-designed primary care sector capable of reducing the health and cost consequences of major chronic illnesses. Ironically, the intensified policy interest in primary care coincides with a steep decline in the proportion of ...

Cost Centre: Faculty of Health Sciences Organisational Unit: Department of General Practice, School ENVIRONMENT The Department of General Practice is an academic and clinical department within the School activities of Divisions of General Practice across Australia and general practice and primary health care

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Architectural, administrative, and educational aspects of the design of medical centers are explored. Based on the historical evolution of health care as a university responsibility, academic health science centers are expected to foster the team approach...

Globalization is having a growing impact on health and health care, presenting challenges as well as opportunities for the U.S. health care industry in general and for academic health science systems (AHSSs) in particular. The authors believe that AHSSs ...

OBJECTIVE: In the era of health care reform, our value-added to patient care, its corresponding level of reimbursement, and the stature of radiology as a specialty will likely be grounded in the scientific evaluation methods of health services research. CONCLUSION: We need to create more opportunities for training, ...

The Michigan Academic Consortium of academic nurse-managed primary care centers supported member sites to venture into computer-based advances with the potential to improve quality of health services and students' educational experiences. The experiences of this consortium as it incorporated electronic ...

From the imagined vantage point of the year 2020, the author recounts the problems and deficiencies of health care in the 1990s and describes how academic medicine's leaders successfully confronted them. A key part of their strategy was to work together to form a coordinated network of medical schools, teaching hospitals, and ...

In the current, chaotic health care climate an important success determinant for health care administrators and clinicians is the support of timely, collaborative decisions for delivery of patient care. The purpose of this article is to describe implementation and outcomes of the application of ...

The author describes health care provided to homeless men by community health nursing students who conduct a service learning project at an inner city mission. Service learning is an educational method that combines the academic learning objectives of community nursing students and the health ...

The mission, indeed the very existence, of the traditional academic health center is under siege. Changes in the financing and delivery of health care threaten the clinical revenue used to subsidize the tripartite mission of education, research, and patient care. Market practices, driven by the ...

CSHCN present a challenge to the primary care provider. These children are medically complex, require services and supports well beyond those that typically developing children require, and command a considerable proportion of the pediatric health care budget. How clinics are organized can have a considerable impact on the delivery of ...

In August 2010, the Third Annual Mayo Clinic Conference on Systems Engineering and Operations Research in Health Care was held. The continuing mission of the conference is to gather a multidisciplinary group of systems engineers, clinicians, administrators, and academic professors to discuss the translation of systems engineering ...

Unprecedented advances in biomedical research and the upheaval in health care economics have converged to cause seismic changes in the traditional organization of medical schools and academic health centers. This process is particularly evident in departments of internal medicine. The activities and functions of ...

An innovative team approach and integration of care across sectors, including general practices, community health services, allied health professionals and hospitals, can deliver high-quality comprehensive care in disadvantaged areas while providing teaching and research opportunities and community service. ...

This article reports the main findings of a descriptive study of the origin, structure, and evolution of the Morgantown Health Right (MHR) free clinic in Morgantown, West Virginia. The study was conducted between 1984 and 1995 to examine the organizational and operational features of this rural academic health center-community ...

Discusses the current environment in which health information is disseminated. Topics addressed include health information versus patient education; a model for examining delivery of consumer health information; the role of library professional associations; national libraries; public libraries; hospital libraries; ...

The processes by which academic medicine will train the next generation of physicians and develop new knowledge have brought to the forefront the relationship between academic medical centers and community hospitals and practitioners. Over the past thirteen years, the Harvard Medical School Joint Center for Radiation Therapy (JCRT) has developed an ...

recognize the important role of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in supporting better patient care, biomedical research, education, health information technology, and public access to high quality health information in the United States. NLM�s invaluable, free electronic information services are accessed more than two billion ...

In this paper we explore current access to and barriers to health information for consumers. We discuss how computers and other developments in information technology are ushering in the era of consumer health informatics , and the potential that lies ahead. It is clear that we witness a period in which the public will have unprecedented ability to access ...

During the past 10 years, there have been a number of large health care mergers in which at least one partner has been an academic medical center. This review summarizes the definitions, attributes needed for success, and reasons for failure of mergers. It then describes the various mergers and their outcomes and discusses the impact ...

One of the objectives of the U.S. Department of Education's National Goals for Education is that "Children will receive the nutrition and health care needed to arrive at school with healthy minds and bodies, and the number of low birthweight babies will be significantly reduced through enhanced prenatal health systems." This paper ...

Wagner's modern construct for chronic care recognizes the primacy of 'productive interactions' among the patient, their personal community and the care provider team. No longer the only locus of care, the health system should operate within the context of and have access to the people and resources of the larger ...

enrollment in nursing cur- riculum support classes. Past academic history and known academic integrity mayWhat type of work would I do if I became a Registered Nurse? One of the most highly recognized professions in health care, registered nurses fulfill a number of key roles in caring for the ...

The Michigan Academic Consortium brought together four universities' nursing schools to address advanced practice issues in nurse-managed primary health care. The collaboration enabled participants to leverage financial resources and take advantage of partnership opportunities. Challenges included multiple management practices, ...

Children and youth with special health care needs frequently require health care during the school day. School evaluations and Individual Educational Plans should include health information addressing students' daily health and emergency needs, should assure services in a ...

Academic medicine, often entrenched in biomedical and clinical research, has largely ignored the development and application of quality metrics to ensure the delivery of high-quality health care. Nevertheless, academic medicine has substantial opportunities to lead the charge in building a quality infrastructure ...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has emerged as a significant sector within the health care industry as patient demand has increased, as the number and diversity of providers has grown, and as more providers deliver evidence-based CAM modalities to patients. The challenges confronting health care ...

Although academic health centers (AHCs) represent a unique combination of teaching, research, and patient care, it is no longer enough to say that their missions are solely education, research, and patient care. Rather, these "missions" must be viewed as functions that enable institutions to achieve their ...

The transfer of information within the academic health center is complicated by the complex nature of the institution's multi-dimensional role. The diverse functions of patient care, administration, education and research result in a complex web of information exchange which requires an integrated approach to system management. System ...