Physician executive
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Physician executive · Nov 2001
Physician executives must leap with the frog. Accountability for safety and quality ultimately lie with the doctors in charge.
Take a look at how one New Jersey medical center is tackling The Leapfrog Group's mandates for change. Achieving the goals for better quality and high levels of patient safety requires diligence, patience and a strong willingness to change.
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Establishing a palliative care service can improve patient care and ease family concerns for patients who are hopelessly ill. For the hospital, such services can improve utilization outcomes. Take a closer look at a palliative care service operating for nearly five years at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
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Developing strong physician/patient relationships isn't easy when doctors are pressed for time, forced to see more patients and overburdened with paperwork. Yet, successful organizations realize that the physician/patient relationship is the most valuable asset for the hospital or practice. Learn ways to cultivate the relationship and make it grow even stronger.
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How can you change your negative thinking? This column describes a process that, on the surface, seems too simplistic to be beneficial, but that works: choose a few good words to repeat to yourself constantly, progress to better thoughts, and then improve what you say to others. If you want to be more satisfied with your work life and your personal life, you must change the internal dialogue in your head. If you have some version of negative internal chatter, you need to substitute positive statements. ⋯ You must say it even if it is the biggest lie you have ever heard yourself think. You must say it for days or weeks before you notice a difference in your attitude, relationships, and health. Eventually, you will notice you feel better and people are behaving better.
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Physician executive · May 2001
Fast forward: a blueprint for the future from the Institute of Medicine.
A newly released report from the Institute of Medicine outlines an ambitious program for changing the direction of U. S. health care. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century recommends switching health system priorities from predominantly acute care treatment to focusing on chronic medical conditions. ⋯ The system we should strive for needs to be: (1) safe; (2) effective; (3) patient-centered; (4) timely; (5) efficient; and (6) equitable. This article looks at some of the IOM recommendations and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. Ultimately, the report advocates an environmental restructuring of health care in the United States.