Patient care high quality

Many medical and pharmacy information resources can be accessed efficiently via the Internet (including information that can be used at the point of care), such as practice guidelines, tertiary references, and governmental/regulatory information. High-quality graphics are plentiful on the Internet and can benefit pharmacists in both patient education and preparation of presentations. Using multimedia resources with patients should improve their retention and... 

Member satisfaction involves interpersonal as well as technical aspects of care. Do plan members feel that their drug benefits are of high quality Are they convenient to access and pay for Do participating pharmacists treat patients courteously and adequately explain the drugs being dispensed ... 

Regardless of their size, structure, or service mix, integrated health systems have the same goal to deliver high-quality care to a defined population at a competitive cost. If desired patient outcomes and standards of fiscal performance are to be achieved, pharmaceutical care must be delivered efficiently and consistently, and drug products must be used appropriately.This is where the clinical pharmacist plays a crucial role. 

Challenged to provide high-quality patient care in the least expensive way, clinicians have developed strategies aimed at containing costs. However, most of these strategies focus solely on determining the least expensive alternative rather than the alternative that... 

Selection criteria High-quality articles with patient-oriented outcomes that have the greatest potential to change the way that primary care clinicians practice journals scanned 80 journals... 

Of course other forces than high-flying science and the Internet, and much more familiar to down-to-earth healthcare administrators, have driven innovations to healthcare. There have been issues of poor safety records and extensive litigation, and of paper-based bureaucratic inefficiency, that information the new medicine can and must fix. Today s healthcare industry contends with a common set of challenges the pressure to contain and reduce the cost of patient care an aging population and the commensurate increase in the demand for healthcare the desire to maintain or improve the current quality of patient care organizational mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations and... 

In addition to these plans, in October 2001 the French Minister of Health announced Plan Biotox as an immediate response to the terrorist anthrax attacks then taking place in the United States (Plan Biotox, 2001). This plan focused on the provision of specific therapy and early life support to be provided in a contaminated zone with the provision of specially trained and equipped SAMU crews capable of operating in a toxic environment and also provision for the reception of contaminated patients at designated hospitals. A key feature of the new plan was the mass purchase of small portable gas-powered ventilators that can assure a high quality of essential ventilatory care at the scene of the emergency and in hospitals that may receive mass casualties (see Figure 8). 

Bio-)pharmaceutical companies that start aligning themselves to these target dimensions today will be tomorrow s winners. They can become architects of sustainable solutions for a high-quality medical care, with a new credibility vis-a-vis patients, physicians and the system as a whole. 

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