Patient-Perspective Care: A New Paradigm for Health Systems and Services

by Timothy A Carey

Book Overview

Inappropriate health care is an escalating and expensive problem. It affects high income, middle income, and low income countries and wastes billions of dollars annually as well as harming individuals and communities. Inappropriate care refers to both the overuse and underuse of tests and treatments and, ironically, can occur concurrently within the same health system. Even though patient-centred care is still the prevailing ethos, specifying where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815378785
• ISBN13: 9780815378785
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"