Israel journal of health policy research
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Isr J Health Policy Res · Aug 2020
The rates of hospital admissions and return visits to a rapidly growing pediatric emergency department as measures of quality of care.
Return visits to the emergency department are viewed as a quality measure of patient management. Avoiding unnecessary admissions to the ward can potentially cause an increase in return visits, thus effecting quality assessment. ⋯ Interventions aimed at decreasing unnecessary admissions do not lead to increased return visits and return visit admissions.
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Isr J Health Policy Res · Aug 2020
Multicenter StudyPatient-centered care in Israeli IVF units: divergent perceptions of patients and providers.
Patient-centered care is particularly important for patients undergoing fertility treatment because of their emotional involvement and their constant contact with providers. To the best of our knowledge, to date, there have been no rigorous studies of the discrepancies between the patients' perceptions of the care they received and the providers' perceptions of the care that they provided, in specific dimensions and elements of patient-centered care. ⋯ Efforts to improve the patient-centeredness in FT should begin by establishing a national ongoing feedback mechanism, involving all 25 IVF units operating in Israel working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The findings from this joint effort should be shared with the public. In addition, we recommended appointing one professional in each IVF unit to be in charge of promoting improvements in the patient-centered care for that unit. Assigning a mental health professional (psychologist or social worker) to each and every IVF unit is also of crucial importance.