Community Pharmacy and Blood Pressure Control
Widespread, effective identification and management of uncontrolled hypertension remains elusive, undermining our ability to reduce the impact of stroke and heart disease. The statistics are widely appreciated: roughly 30% of North Americans have hypertension and almost half are uncontrolled. Nearly 1,000 people a day die from complications attributed to hypertension, and direct and indirect costs amount to $46 billion a year in the United States alone.
The 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care
Our experiences studying exemplar primary care practices, and our work assisting other practices to become more patient centered, led to a formulation of the essential elements of primary care, which we call the 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care.
From triple to quadruple aim: care of the patient requires care of the provider.
The Triple Aim-enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing costs-is widely accepted as a compass to optimize health system performance. Yet physicians and other members of the health care workforce report widespread burnout and dissatisfaction. Burnout is associated with lower patient satisfaction, reduced health outcomes, and it may increase costs. Burnout thus imperils the Triple Aim.
The Impact of a Multidisciplinary, Student-Run, Free Clinic on Health Professional Students’ Attitudes Towards the Underserved and Interprofessionalism
To determine the impact of a multidisciplinary, student-run, free clinic on health professional students’ attitudes towards the underserved and interprofessionalism attitudes and skills. We hypothesize that these students will show better attitudes and skills than those students not volunteering in the clinic. Many health professional schools find it challenging to teach interprofessionalism in a way that is both valued by students and impactful on the outcome of changing the attitudes and behaviors towards students from other professions.
The American Public Health Association Code of ethics
A code of ethics for public health can clarify the distinctive elements of public health and the ethical principles that follow from or respond to those elements. It can make clear to populations and communities the ideals of the public health institutions that serve them, ideals for which the institutions can be held accountable.
Phillips Neighborhood Clinic- Service Model, Community Involvement, and Interdisciplinary Teamwork
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC) is a completely student run clinic that offers free, high quality, comprehensive care to a patient population that otherwise lacks access to such services. The PNC achieves this through three main principles:
(1)interdisciplinary care, (2) student leadership, and (3) community collaboration.
This document explains the three PNC principles.
IPAS: Interprofessional Attitudes Scale
IPAS is a scale designed to assess attitudes that relate to the 2011 Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. IPAS is one of the first scales to focus specifically on the Core Competencies. IPAS consists of 27 items in 5 sub-scales, which we have called "Teamwork, Roles, and Responsibilities", "Patient-Centeredness", "Interprofessional Biases", "Diversity & Ethics", and "Community-Centeredness". IPAS was created from factor analysis of survey data collected from over 700 student respondents at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in 2012.
A Roadmap for Patient & Family Engagement in Healthcare
Patient and family engagement is a growing topic in healthcare as we look for ways to improve population health, provide better experience of care and lower healthcare costs. In recognition of the importance of patient and family engagement, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded the American Institutes for Research to develop a roadmap for practice and research. This roadmap is a call to action for anyone interested in advancing work related to patient and family engagement. It includes:
How Many Doctors, Nurses, and Other Health Professionals Do You Need?
This presentation, delivered by Barbara Brandt, PhD, to the National Governors Association, outlines the impact of new delivery system models of health care on a state's workforce needs.
