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Patient and Consumer Leadership in Health Care: Empowering People and Their Loved Ones
Pages 112-115

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From page 112...
... Health care terminology is evolving in response, with patients increasingly referred to as "consumers" to reflect their greater control over health care decisions. Consumerism -- the concept that patients make purchasing decisions based on information about health care cost and quality -- is still a relatively new idea, but it's quickly attracting support in an age when the internet provides more access to information about health care cost and quality than ever before.
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From page 113...
... The first entity provides direct prominence in the academic literature. Studies Then a small group of patient advocates formed a services to patients and helps them navigate the revealed that better health -- whether measured coalition to support passage of the Orphan Drug health care system, while the second works to physiologically, behaviorally, or through patient Act, which created incentives for the development improve the health care system directly.
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From page 114...
... By promoting greater patient engagement, patient-centered care leads to improved health outcomes, quality of life, Consumer Classroom and optimal value for health care investment. In mobile app from FAIR addition, patient and community representation Health, a national, on hospital and care system boards and influence independent nonprofit organization in supporting care delivery, measurement, and payment reform has led to wide-scale changes in health systems, including improved patient safety, perceptions of quality, and medication adherence as well as decreased medical errors.
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From page 115...
... These methods are part of an important movement to recognize addition, a new discipline called consumer health the value of involving members of a study's impacted population in the research informatics emerged, which studies any electronic process. They are also foundational to later advances, including the Patient- tool designed to provide personalized information Centered Outcomes Research Institute, an independent nonprofit institution to health information consumers that is not that funds research aimed at improving health care at both the individual and fully dependent on the health care professional, population levels.
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