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Examining The Effects Of Approaches On Reducing Hospital Utilization: The Patient-Centered Medical Home, Continuity Of Care, And The Inpatient Palliative Consultation At The End-Of-Life, Xiaoting Sun
Theses & Dissertations
Background: It has become a national priority to reduce the high health care expenditure in the United States while improving the quality of care. Hospital care is taking up one-third of the healthcare spending, and services offered in hospitals are costly compared to others. Only one-twentieth of the patients with high-needs account for about half of the health care spending. They consuming a high level of hospital services if their conditions are not well-managed in the outpatient settings. Therefore, it is important to examine the effectiveness of the approaches that have the potentials to reduce costly care utilization through improvements …
Evaluation Of A Palliative Care Initiative On The African Continent: Responsibly Improving Access To Pain Treatment, J. Spencer Hirschi
Evaluation Of A Palliative Care Initiative On The African Continent: Responsibly Improving Access To Pain Treatment, J. Spencer Hirschi
MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects
The African continent today faces a crisis of inadequate palliative care, in spite of the growing level of suffering of its citizens who are faced with debilitating diseases and injuries. Much of this problem stems from deeply ingrained attitudes towards opioids: while the American continent grapples with the effects of opioid overprescribing, physicians trained in Africa are taught that opioids are inappropriate for virtually all scenarios, and therefore they come to fear and avoid their use or simply remain untrained on them altogether. Patients fail to advocate for themselves out of submission to the doctor’s authority, governments remain apathetic to …