Patient-empowerment

Lack of patient empowerment. Supply-side subsidies are often associated with low-quality service. Because assistance flows from the government to the provider rather than to patients, supply-side subsidies create no incentives for service providers to provide good service or offer patients anything beyond the bare essentials in terms of comfort and privacy. 

The ChemChip system will provide comprehensive diagnostic and monitoring panels for basic and clinical research, and for personal disease and health management. These systems would provide rapid results, facilitate patient empowerment, and reduce health care costs. The development of panels appropriate to specific clinical research areas will greatly facilitate such research, due to the ease of use, low cost, and multi-parametric data generation of the ChemChip systems. 

In many hospital pharmacies the structure of a PQS for the production department will probably be found in its Quality Manual that contains all SOPs, well structured in chapters, presumably those of GMP. If however characteristics such as benefit/risk ratio, timeliness, availability or patient empowerment have to be added, a hospital pharmacy may be better off with a structure that uses the ISO 9001-EN 15224. Such a structure may be useful as well if the PQS for production has to be merged with the PQS for the whole pharmacy. 

It is obvious that the concurrent use of CAD and telehealth/mobile technologies addresses the health management of CVD diseases in a holistic approach, placing the patient in the center of this procedure and putting increased emphasis on patient empowerment, secondary prevention, and self-management of individual conditions. The proper combination of these technologies transforms the diagnostic process and mainly benefits patients that have no access to traditional delivery of health services, either because of distance or due to lack of local specialist clinicians able to deliver service. 

Identification of the patient s problems, empowerment, cooperation, documentation and communication within the professions, between professions and with the patient. 

CAM practitioners spend far more time with their patients than conventional practitioners, listening attentively and attempting to truly understand what the patient wants and who they are as an individual. A patient can thus leave a session with a feeling of empowerment and a belief that they can be well again. 

Fundholding is a way to increase the accountability of the professions and it can become quite important, in the context of a growing empowerment of patients (e.g., as they become better informed, in part from direct sources such as websites, as to their conditions and treatment options). 

Armstrong, K. and Laschinger, H. 2006. Structural empowerment, magnet hospital characteristics, and patient safety eulture Making the link. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 21(2), 124-32. 

Armstrong, K., Laschinger, H. and Wong, C. 2009. Workplace empowerment and magnet hospital characteristies as predietors of patient safety climate. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 24(1), 55-62. 

Empowerment should be a fundamental feature of any intervention aimed at increasing the patient s level of confidence in performing safety-related behaviors. 

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