Patient Care
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

"I can do patient care on my own": autonomy and the manager role.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: An internal medicine (IM) residency program redesigned its second year, the Manager Year, to restore balance among autonomy, supervision, and clinical competence. This study examined the response of residents and some supervising attendings ... Read more...

Is there a relationship between high-quality performance in major teaching hospitals and residents' knowledge of quality and patient safety?

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: The relationship of the quality of teaching hospitals' clinical performance to resident education in quality and patient safety is unclear. The authors studied residents' knowledge of these areas in major teaching hospitals with higher- and ... Read more...

Improving care at cystic fibrosis centers through quality improvement.

14 Sep 2009 Quality improvement (QI) using a clinical microsystems approach provides cystic fibrosis (CF) centers the opportunity to make a significant positive impact on the health of their patients. The availability of center-specific outcomes data and the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Doors. 30 Oct 2009
• "I can do patient care on my own": autonomy and the manager role. 30 Oct 2009
• Is there a relationship between high-quality performance in major teaching hospitals and residents' knowledge of quality and patient safety? 30 Oct 2009
• Artist's statement: heart. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving care at cystic fibrosis centers through quality improvement. 14 Sep 2009
• Roxie's excellent adventure. 30 Aug 2009
• Coding & billing. Capturing revenue, avoiding coding errors take on higher priority. 30 Aug 2009
• Strategic healthcare retail. 30 Aug 2009
• Economic factors in nephrology: Core Curriculum 2009. 30 Aug 2009
• Information sheets and informed consent forms for clinical study participants: towards standardised recommendations? 11 Aug 2009
• Recession stresses mental health system. 2 Aug 2009
• [Clinical pharmacy practice education in master's course of Meijo University in affiliation with medical school] 30 Jul 2009
• Brief interventions for depression in primary care: a systematic review. 30 Jul 2009
• Rolling out Productive Ward foundation modules across a hospital trust. 30 Jul 2009
• Approach to the patient with drug allergy. 30 Jul 2009
• What is mine is now yours and vice versa. 30 Jul 2009
• Discrete choice experiments for complex health-care decisions: does hierarchical information integration offer a solution? 30 Jul 2009
• Prenatal genetic testing. 30 Jul 2009
• Case studies in corporate compliance: putting the rubber to the road. 30 Jul 2009
• Improving the standard of care for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis requires participation in clinical trials. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Patient Care'

Definition: The services rendered by members of the health profession and non-professionals under their supervision for the benefit of the patient. (From Dorland, 28th ed, p269)

Descriptor UI: D005791

Alternative terms: Patient Care; Care, Patient;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E02.760; N02.421.585;

History Note: 98; use explode 1975-97

Technical Notes: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; not a synonym for NURSING CARE: nursing care is only one type of patient care