Keeping the Patient in the Equation — Humanism and Health Care Reform  

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Hartzband, Pamela ; Groopman, Jerome

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 361 no. 06 (Aug. 2009), page 554-555 .

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2009.04 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Over the past decade, two major movements have emerged in medicine, both intended to improve patient care. The medical humanism movement seeks to understand the patient as a person, focusing on individual values, goals, and preferences with respect to clinical decisions. The second movement is evidence-based practice, which aims to put medicine on a firm scientific footing; experts evaluate the best available data and develop clinical guidelines designed to standardize procedures and therapies. These two movements will now play out in the context of national health care reform, the goals of which are universal coverage and cost containment. Until now, the two trends have largely progressed in parallel, with mutual acknowledgment of the other's merits. But now, when it is most important for them to coalesce, they are poised to collide.

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