Comprehensive Health Care - Methods
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Learning from Alma Ata: the medical home and comprehensive primary health care.

29 Apr 2009 The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) recently has received much attention in health systems literature. The PCMH holds considerable promise for improving health outcomes and re-establishing a role for family medicine in a fragmented health care ... Read more...

How often do physicians address other medical problems while providing prenatal care?

27 Feb 2009 PURPOSE: It is unknown to what extent physicians address multiple problems while providing prenatal care. The objective of this study was to determine the percentage of prenatal encounters with 1 or more secondary and tertiary nonobstetric diagnoses ... Read more...

Models of comprehensive multidisciplinary care for individuals in the United States with genetic disorders.

30 Dec 2008 Approaches to providing comprehensive coordinated care for individuals with complex diseases include the medical home approach, the chronic care model in primary care, and disease-specific, multidisciplinary specialty clinics. There is uneven ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Comprehensive Health Care - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Learning from Alma Ata: the medical home and comprehensive primary health care. 29 Apr 2009
• Oral assessments. 29 Apr 2009
• How often do physicians address other medical problems while providing prenatal care? 27 Feb 2009
• A home away from home: the patient-centered health home. 30 Jan 2009
• Models of comprehensive multidisciplinary care for individuals in the United States with genetic disorders. 30 Dec 2008
• A review of the evidence for the medical home for children with special health care needs. 29 Sep 2008
• Communication between key stakeholders within a medical home: a qualitative study. Sep 2008
• Starving in the midst of plenty? A study of training needs for child and adolescent mental health service delivery in primary care. 29 Jun 2008
• Beyond fighting fires and chasing tails? Chronic illness care plans in Ontario, Canada. 28 Feb 2008
• The impact of 'comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)' implementation on the effectiveness and cost (CEA) of healthcare in an acute geriatric ward. 30 Dec 2007
• Evaluation of a naloxone distribution and administration program in New York City. 30 Dec 2007
• "Please listen, it's my turn": instructional approaches, curricula and contexts for supporting communication and increasing access to inclusion. 29 Nov 2007
• Mortality reduction benefits of a comprehensive cardiac care program for patients with occlusive coronary artery disease. 29 Sep 2007
• [The comprehensive study of the population health in the Astrakhan oblast: the methodology, the primary results and the prospect] 29 Jun 2007
• [Optimized drug therapies in secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases] 30 May 2007
• Grounded theory and backward mapping: exploring the implementation context for wraparound. 8 Mar 2007
• Comprehending coordinated comprehensive care: the devil is in the dollars. 27 Feb 2007
• Fundamental reform of payment for adult primary care: comprehensive payment for comprehensive care. 27 Feb 2007
• Ancillary services and retention of youth in HIV care. 30 Jan 2007
• Effects of a comprehensive health assessment programme for Australian adults with intellectual disability: a cluster randomized trial. 9 Jan 2007

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Technical information about 'Comprehensive Health Care'

Definition: Providing for the full range of personal health services for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation of patients.

Descriptor UI: D003191

Alternative terms: Comprehensive Health Care; Health Care, Comprehensive; Comprehensive Healthcare; Healthcare, Comprehensive;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.233;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: IM