¶ … dimensions (criteria) and define them in no more than one paragraph each.
Safe: avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
Effective: providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit, and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit.
Patient-centered: providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
Timely: reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care.
Efficient: avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy.
Equitable: providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status
(quoted from: Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, IOM)
Part B. Question 2b (2. In no more than one paragraph each, please evaluate the importance of each attribute from the perspective of: a. The clinician, b. The patient, c. The payer (insurance company or cms), d. society.:
The clinician will rate technical performance as most important, because that's how they're trained: to be the best in their class. Responsiveness to patient preferences comes a distant second, because they are bound to obey patient directives. The hospital will encourage them to be efficient with their time, and the need to build a practice will lead to the management of interpersonal relationships. Amenities of care will follow, as patients will not go to unpleasant or unsafe doctor's offices. Cost effectiveness is least important, because they're not paid to be cost effective.
The patient will naturally rank responsiveness to their preferences as most important, followed by the management of interpersonal relationships, because interpersonal relationships are somewhat determinative of the response to their preferences. Amenities of care probably come next, as those are visible outward signs of care to the patient. Technical performance comes in next, because patients don't really...
Dimensions of Social Inequality Race, Class, Sex, Marriage, Gender: Social Scholars' Dimensions of Social Equity and Inequality Race, Class, Sex, Marriage, Gender: Social Scholars' Dimensions of Social Equity and Inequality Race, Gender, Sex, Marriage, and Class Race, Gender, Sex, Marriage, and Class are themes that are socially and historically constructed by the society and operate on an individual and social level. Academics and social scholars emphasize these dimensions are interdependent, and define social boundaries.
Global Leadership • Define global leadership Global leaders are born and then made for the reason; since the full potential of an individual can't be realized until they are provided with an opportunity and regular training (Gregersen et al.,1998). In order to survive in this competitive world, the global organizations have to face increased challenges and competition for which the success demands the corporate top manager's best performance. Whilst working across multiple
Leadership Defining an Ethical Leader Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric The nature of leadership is multifaceted and often requires the continual mastery of new skills, insights, intelligence and perspectives to stay effective over the long-term. Such is the nature of ethical leadership, which requires a steadfast focus on a core set of ethical principles and values that guide a leader's judgment, ensuring consistency over the long-term. These are also the fundamental aspects of any
Visible and Hidden Dimensions of Student Diversity The use of Multimedia in educational contexts is producing a growing opportunity to improve the accommodation of diversity. So demonstrates the MyPlace project, identified as "The Place for Diversity Multimedia Analysis." In the course of such analysis, we find that there are several distinct values to embracing this type of identity-driven diversity in an educational community. The visible dimensions of diversity are typically characterized
" (Assessing, Selecting, and Implementing Instruments for Government Action, 2007) Questions that must be asked are those as follows: (1) Is the issue one where government can act alone? (2) Is the issue one where external actors can act alone with some influence from government? (3) Is the issue one where a mixed governance approach is required, that is, where government and external actors need to act together? (4) What
Love) Defining Love "Love is not a feeling. It's an ability." -- Peter Hedges When asked to define "love" in one word, many adjectives come to mind -- wonderful, unconditional, mysterious, and powerful. Love is considered one of the greatest emotions known to human kind and ranges from familial love to romantic devotion to the benign love that exists between good friends (Rosenburg, 2009). Love can be a sentiment or an action;
Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
Get Started Now