Sentences with phrase «access barriers patients»

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«By aligning with patients» expectations, removing unnecessary barriers, such as cost and access, and engaging patients» social and support networks, we can develop patient - centered clinical programs that better serve diverse groups of cancer patients regardless of sex, race, and education levels,» Bauml said.

The study did not ascribe a specific cause for the racial disparities but offered six possible explanations: conscious or unconscious provider biases; patient mistrust; health literacy; patient - physician communication breakdown; healthcare access barriers; and / or race - based differences in disease biology.

«Lowering the access barrier to medical applications can have profound effects on patients, their caregivers and their doctors, especially for something as prevalent as newborn jaundice.»

The IOM report recommends, in the short - term, that doctors and patients should be better informed about pain and currently available treatments; barriers to accessing pharmaceuticals should be removed; and alternative treatments that have demonstrated some efficacy, such as physical therapy, should be made more available and covered by insurance.

The ACO will map services to Medicaid patients» physical location and medical needs, while addressing psychosocial barriers that often limit access to high - quality care.

It examines problems with access to healthcare and burden of illness, and it found that although patients with Lyme disease suffered a substantial burden of illness, they had significant barriers to healthcare access.

First, the College's objective that was sufficiently important to warrant overriding a constitutionally - protected right or freedom; that objective was the facilitation of patient access to health care services, so that the religious and conscientious objections of physicians would not become a barrier to health care.

My goal is to work with a team that utilizes research and standards of care to improve health care delivery, decrease barriers to accessing health care delivery, offer creative ways to promote wellness, and improve patient outcomes for those with chronic disease states.

This program aims to address barriers to access and improve satisfaction with care, quality of care, patient function, reduce caregiver burden and lower costs through a coordinated telemedicine program, including a Parkinson's Disease specialist / neurologist, a nurse specializing in Parkinson's Disease and an experienced telemedicine coordinator.

A steep increase in out - of - pocket costs for seeing the doctor and getting prescribed medicines would entrench a two class health system in which the well - off access preferential care from their doctors while uninsured patients face higher hurdles and financial barriers to care.

For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, these barriers to cancer care are further exacerbated by poor access to effective treatment services.

Online interventions offer many advantages; they can provide access to evidence - based treatments and patients can work through the intervention whenever they want.6 Usually, anonymity is preserved as patients participate at distance, resulting in low - social barriers and low risk of stigmatisation.7 From a health suppliers perspective, online interventions guarantee standardised treatments and show good scalability, which has led to the launch of the first online clinics.8 9 Internet - based interventions can also help with bridging waiting times10 or enhance treatment effects during aftercare.11 At the same time, online interventions do not fit all patients» needs (eg, need for more personal contact or diverging preferences).

For patients living in regional and rural areas, the barriers to accessing appropriate services and supports are exacerbated.

That's largely people who already face barriers to accessing health care as people with low incomes, people of color, people who live in rural areas — who make up the majority of Planned Parenthood's patients.

What's more, blocking patients from care at health centers has a disproportionate impact on communities of color — who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care.

Objective: Our aims were to (1) identify race / ethnic and age cohort disparities among seniors in use of the health plan's patient portal, (2) determine whether race / ethnic and age cohort disparities exist in access to digital devices and preferences for using email - and Web - based modalities to interact with the health care system, (3) assess whether observed disparities in preferences and patient portal use are due simply to barriers to access and inability to use the Internet, and (4) learn whether older adults not currently using the health plan's patient portal or website have a potential interest in doing so in the future and what kind of support might be best suited to help them.

«But knowing that we do 270,000 pap tests a year, and detect 72,000 cancerous or precancerous abnormalities, without access to the essential care that we provide, you'd have to surmise that many of those patients would find barriers to care,» she says.

Because of an increasingly restrictive legal environment and clinic closures across the country, abortion patients are facing new barriers to care, including the need to travel greater distances to access services.2, 20 Overcoming these challenges can be difficult or impossible, especially given that 75 % of abortion patients are low - income, and 59 % have already had a child and may have other family obligations.21 Whether a provider offers same - day contraceptive services is irrelevant if a patient can not access abortion care in the first place.