Sentences with phrase «lower quality of care»

The «unclassified» group (characterised by extremely low amount of attachment behaviours) had significantly lower quality of care than the other groups.

This leads to prejudice and discrimination, and results in lower quality of care.

Pharmacists in Alberta fear a new funding agreement with the province will lead to staff cuts and lower quality of care for patients.

Universal Health Care isn't happening because it lowers quality of care and costs a fortune.

What I can't stand about Blonde's argument over public services, is his failure to realize that private property in healthcare budgets is regressive because it lowers the quality of care for the sickest and poorest by depriving them of resources they need, and removes democratic accountability from healthcare.

In another study, no significant differences were found regarding length of placement and attachment security; this study was conducted in a large institution described as having low quality of care (Vorria et al. 2003).

Not exact matches

Yes, Danes have a stable government, low levels of public corruption, and access to high - quality education and health care.

«The lesson of the high - quality, low - cost communities is that someone has to be accountable for the totality of care,» he writes.

According to the Health Care Cost Institute, about 43 % of all spending by individuals with employer - sponsored insurance in 2011 was shoppable, meaning that it was spent on medical services whose prices could be significantly lowered without compromising quality.

A low cost alternative to current commercial products could radically improve the quality of care for the 300 million people worldwide who have chronic respiratory disease.

EXCITE will lower health care costs and increase patient benefits by improving the quality and relevance of these technologies, streamlining their health system adoption and expediting their market penetration.

For example, it may be increasing access to essential medication by having lower prices than competitors and a convenient delivery model, and it may be improving quality of care by building trust with its customers.

Those that adopt this mentality will find new levels of productivity, and as a result, will deliver higher quality care at lower and lower prices.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.

Low - cost programs serving millions of children and their families have provided quality care for years, and have, in their own way, contributed to the lives of congregations.

However, the economic cost of caring for those labeled as having a low quality of life is frequently noted by euthanasia advocates and asserted as grounds for healthcare rationing and the withdrawal of wanted life support.

I'm going to be honest and admit I'm past the point of caring, whether we finish 3rd or 5th, I don't care since there's no use for us competing in the CL with the lack of quality in our squad and the low ambition our board and manager have shown.

Regardless of the quality of non-parental child care, children from low - quality home environments had more behavioral problems and children from high - quality homes had fewer behavioral problems.

Your post-pregnancy diet may be low in certain nutrients and these vitamins can fortify your milk to be at its best quality while making sure to take care of you at the same time.

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

Parents who work in low - wage jobs can face real difficulties affording quality child care — in 2013, the average cost of full - time care for an infant at a child care center was about $ 10,000 per year — higher than the average cost of in - state tuition at a public 4 - year college - and much higher in some locations.

During that time the death rate in labour or the neonatal period in non-malformed babies of normal birth weight born to women booked for a home delivery (those deaths most capable of reduction by high quality care during labour) was as low as the regional figure for all other such losses (0.05 % v 0.11 %).

Individual patient clinical data for very low birth weight infants from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative were linked to hospital - level data on DHM availability from the Mothers» Milk Bank of San Jos for 2007 to 2013.

Common barriers for midwifery personnel to provide quality care include low social esteem, poor pay, long working hours, insufficient staffing, and lack of fully functioning facility environments.

Established pursuant to Executive Order No. 5, the Medicaid Redesign Team's 27 members will bring vast experience as health care providers, consumers and industry experts to address the challenge of refocusing our health care system to provide quality health care at lower costs.

«The federal government is still trying to decimate our health care system by targeting the quality of care low income Americans are able to receive,» Governor Cuomo said.

«Most Americans wanted to hear the president tell Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid and the rest of Congress that it's time to start over on a common - sense, bipartisan plan focused on lowering the cost of health care while improving quality,» he said.

«A public option is the best option to lower costs, improve the quality of health care, ensure choice and expand coverage.

«Hospitals are going to be looking for ways to improve quality of care for Medicare patients in order to lower readmission rates and prevent fines,» said study co-author, Tomas Philipson, Ph.D., who is the Daniel Levin Chair of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

This so - called urban health advantage is usually attributed to better access to health care and improved overall infrastructure, such as clean water, safety and education.But many of the globe's cities are already bursting and actually offer a far worse quality of life to those on the lower end of the income spectrum, whose plights can get overshadowed in large - scale statistics.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

The number of U.S. medical students choosing careers in family practice plummeted by more than 50 percent in just the last eight years, but ironically, the more specialists there are in a state per capita, the lower the quality rank of medical care in that state and the higher the cost.

«Cardiac arrest survival rates are unacceptably low,» said Robert Graham, chair of the study committee and director of the national program office for Aligning Forces for Quality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. «Although breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiac arrest are promising, the ability to deliver timely interventions and high - quality care is inconsQuality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. «Although breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiac arrest are promising, the ability to deliver timely interventions and high - quality care is inconsquality care is inconsistent.

«Although this study of clinicians from surgical and other related specialties did not demonstrate any association between implicit race or social class bias and clinical decision making, existing biases might influence the quality of care received by minority patients and those of lower socioeconomic status in real - life clinical encounters.

Primary care clinicians should educate survivors regarding the association between physical activity and lower overall and prostate cancer - specific mortality and improved quality of life.

«Medicaid expansion significantly boosts insurance coverage among low - income adults: Health care utilization, diagnoses of chronic health conditions and quality of coverage also improved.»

«If they do not, our analysis suggests that millions of low - income Americans could lose the high - quality primary care that can prevent many expensive health conditions from getting worse or developing in the first place.»

Hospitals with a disproportionate number of contract nurses also had significantly higher levels of patient dissatisfaction, which prior research has linked to lower quality care and worse outcomes.

A concern is that not adjusting readmissions data for poverty or other socioeconomic factors could mislead the public into thinking that hospitals with a large share of disadvantaged patients provide lower - quality care than hospitals with more affluent patients.

A consultation initiated from the ED may be an opportunity to ensure that care is congruent with a patient's wishes and to interrupt the cascade of intensive, end - of - life care that may be a marker of low - quality care.

«Air quality in the U.S. has benefitted from more protective federal standards in response to evidence from health studies, and there are likely further benefits to be gained by standards even lower than those now recommended by the ATS,» said ATS President Marc Moss, MD, who is Roger S. Mitchell Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Fourth, dismally low public spending on health has crippled the public sector and created large barriers in quality and access — the total expenditure on health in India fell from 4 · 5 % of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2004 - 05 to 4 · 0 % of GDP in 2013 - 14, and most of this expenditure was out - of - pocket leading to catastrophic health care expenditure for millions.

«More importantly, the lower level of health care access and utilization among this group is likely to impact follow - up care of these patients and may make them more susceptible to diminished quality of life.»

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) The Health Reources and Services Administration (HRSA) works to to improve and expand access to quality health care for all and assure the availability of quality health care to low income, uninsured, isolated, vulnerable and special needs populations.

Medical ethicists at Johns Hopkins and Brigham and Women's Hospital provide a roadmap to the health care holy grail of higher quality, lower cost care via referrals, while avoiding the ethical pitfalls of managed care in the 1990s.

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These consequences lower the quality of patient care and, in the case of medical errors, may even put patients» lives at risk.

When we neglect to give our bodies top quality care and food that is free of chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, etc), GMO's and low - nutrient - profile food, what are we giving our bodies to work off of?

Low health literacy creates difficulties in communicating with clinicians, poses barriers in managing chronic illness, lessens the likelihood of receiving preventive care, heightens the possibility of experiencing serious medication errors, increased risk of hospitalization, and results in poorer quality of life.»