Respiratory Care, Vol. 40

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Excerpt from Respiratory Care, Vol. 40: A Monthly Science Journal, July, 1995Patient-focused care, one facet of work redesign in the health care setting, has become an enticing strategy in the current cost attentive health-care environment.' Specifically, by bringing caregivers and services to the patient, patient-focused care at tempts to streamline health-care delivery in a way that con serves resources, maximizes coordination of services, and as sures maximal patient satisfaction. Like other aspects of health care reform, patient-focused care has laudable goals that have drawn much attention and have caused a growing number of institutions to launch pilot studies investigating its effectiveness. However, whether these laudable goals have been met awaits results of much needed studies. In the meantime, patient-fo cused care may have important implications for the roles of respiratory care practitioners (rcps) in inpatient care. For ex ample, designers of patient-focused care models must address several questions about respiratory care practitioners.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.