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Creating patient-centered health care systems to improve outcomes and reduce disparities

Health care delivery systems that are designed to understand and meet patient preferences for care have the potential to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities. Studies that rigorously assess patient care preferences in minority and underserved populations, stakeholder engagement, and polici...

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Autor principal: Schmittdiel, Julie A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26288718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0039-2
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description Health care delivery systems that are designed to understand and meet patient preferences for care have the potential to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities. Studies that rigorously assess patient care preferences in minority and underserved populations, stakeholder engagement, and policies that promote a diverse health care workforce that can address patient preferences are important levers for improving care for vulnerable populations.
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spelling pubmed-45398882015-08-19 Creating patient-centered health care systems to improve outcomes and reduce disparities Schmittdiel, Julie A. Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Health care delivery systems that are designed to understand and meet patient preferences for care have the potential to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities. Studies that rigorously assess patient care preferences in minority and underserved populations, stakeholder engagement, and policies that promote a diverse health care workforce that can address patient preferences are important levers for improving care for vulnerable populations. BioMed Central 2015-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4539888/ /pubmed/26288718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0039-2 Text en © Schmittdiel. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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