In a January 5, 2023, letter to state health officials, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") clarified a Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program ("CHIP") policy.
An interprofessional consultation occurs when the patient’s treating physician requests the opinion and/or advice from a specialist practitioner without the patient making face-to-face contact with the specialist practitioner.
Background: There is growing recognition of the importance of involving patients and families with lived experiences of illness in healthcare service quality improvement, research and implementation initiatives. Ensuring input from people with palliative care needs is important, but how to enable this is not well understood. Aim: To seek the perspectives of Australian patients with palliative care needs, and their family members, to elicit their views on how to best contribute to inpatient palliative care quality improvement initiatives. Design: An exploratory qualitative study, using semi-structured interviews. Setting/participants: Eligible participants were adult patients with palliative care needs receiving care within a hospital setting, and their family members. Recruitment occurred through: five hospitals in New South Wales, Australia; and snowballing. Results: Fifty participants took part (21 patients and 29 family members). Results confirmed four themes: (1) Mechanisms for pro
Over recent decades healthcare has shifted towards patient-centred care as a result of the numerous benefits this approach has shown. Within dietetics, part of practising in a patient-centred way requires the development of a ‘positive’ relationship between client and dietitian. Governing documents depict this relationship as a fundamental aspect of clinical dietetic practice, however little is known about how this ‘positive’ relationship is developed and maintained in clinical practice and what education and training dietitians receive in this aspect of practice. Consistent findings from psychotherapy research show that the quality of the relationship between a client and therapist (described as a ‘therapeutic relationship’) has a modest positive effect on the client’s health outcomes. Hence understanding more about the therapeutic relationship between clients and dietitians may assist the profession to understand more about how the therapeutic relationship ‘works’ i