PUBH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Uptodate, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Defensive Medicine

• School: GWU
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PUBH 1101
• Professor: A N D E R S O N D O U G L A S

Document Summary

Supplementary articles: commonwealth fund, u. s. healthcare from a global perspective, families usa, measuring healthcare quality: an overview of quality measures less. Important: gallagher, patients, & physicians" attitudes regarding the disclosure of medical errors. Include hospitals, skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, and institutional hospices: outpatient facilities. Include those providing clinical services by one or more clinicians and those providing diagnostic testing or treatment. What types of inpatient facilities exist in the u. s. Inpatient facilities can be classified as: hospitals generally designed for short term stays by patients, long term care facilities, the several types of hospitals differ in their purposes and organizational structures. They can be divided into nonprofit and for-profit, or investor-owned, hospitals: nearly 90% of the approx. The goal of hospice care is to provide comfort, emotional support, and palliation not to increase longevity. Characteristics of healthcare quality- national committee for quality assurance. Access to needed care and good customer service.