More on practice redesign
Arch Intern Med -- Improving Primary Care for Older Patients: Challenge for the Aging Century: Comment on "Practice Redesign to Improve Care for Falls and Urinary Incontinence", October 25, 2010, Kao and Landefeld 170 (19): 1772
This article supported the design of ACOVEprime, but also suggested that the cost effectiveness of the intervention should be examined. I agree with the authors. In recent years, so many designs of interventions have been introduced. However, some interventions might be not practical or inefficient for health care resources allocation even though they were innovative. Randomized controlled trials should always be conducted before the implementation of interventions into the health care delivery system. However, these trials can be costly themselves. I propose to form some expert panels, including primary care physicians, nurses, PAs, and specialists to investigate and review these interventions thoroughly before the introduction of these interventions to the world of health service researchers.
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