The recent news that thousands of seniors with cancer are being denied treatment with expensive chemotherapy drugs as a result of sequestration-mandated budget cuts…
The February issue of Health Affairs proclaims, “New Era of Patient Engagement,” but what signals changing times as much as a new intensity of academic…
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has just appointed four new advisory panels that will help guide hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants….
Person-Centered HealthCare: Not In My Name: Real Patient-Centeredness Means Sharing Power
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Editor’s note: For more on engaging patients to be active participants in their own care, see the February issue of Health Affairs,…
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The new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has been asking different stakeholders about the most important issues to address with the hundreds of millions…
The old axis of access in U.S. health care – insured or uninsured – is being replaced by the kind of gradations…