Using population segmentation to provide better health care for all: The "Bridges to Health" model
The model discussed in this article divides the population into eight groups: people in good health, in maternal/infant situations, with an acute illness, with stable chronic conditions, with a serious but stable disability, with failing health near death, with advanced organ system failure, and with long-term frailty. Each group has its own definitions of optimal health and its own priorities among services.
Shared Leadership- A New Approach to Patient Care
A team approach to patient education was utilized in a 3 1/2 year experimental program in a 500-bed commnunity teaching hospital. This paper relates the problems inherent in an interdisciplinary team which uses a shared leadership approach and its relationship to the larger organization, the hospital. It described the impact the team had on its members and on the patients and discusses the implications for others who are contemplating using teams.
This paper is part of the collected papers of DeWitt C. "Bud" Baldwin.