US studies have shown that adults with low health literacy have increased hospitalisations and greater emergency care use, lower use of preventative care such as mammography and vaccine uptake, poorer ability to demonstrate taking medications appropriately, poorer ability to interpret labels and health messages, and, among seniors, poorer overall health status and higher mortality.
The name, in Portuguese, means "big pig," but it's appropriately pronounced "poor cow".
I am seeing more and more convergence than there used to be on the consequences, however, with more public sector organisations dealing appropriately with poor performers.
Always up for it, this lowly runt of a beast is brought into proximity with the hind-quarters of the mare when she is on heat, and if she is in the mood and reacts appropriately, the poor brute of a teaser stallion is led away, to be replaced by the prize stallion, who then does the business.
You have completed [medical] education, you have a license and what I mean is use it appropriately for poor people.
Evaluating whether physicians respond appropriately to poor risk factor control gives a different picture of quality of care.
In primary care, evaluating whether physicians respond appropriately to poor risk factor control, in addition to assessing proportions in control, provide a broader view of the quality of care than relying solely on measures of proportions in control.
In Switzerland, a country without systematic quality monitoring, we found that measuring proportions in control without evaluating whether physicians respond appropriately to poor risk factor control largely underestimated quality of care.
In summary, evaluating whether physicians respond appropriately to poor risk factor control, in addition to proportions of patients with controlled risk factors, might provide a more clinically relevant index of quality of care.
Five mechanisms were reported as underlying over half of ICU near misses: failure to execute a task appropriately (16 %), poor communication (12 %), failure to perform a routine task (12 %), poor culture of safety (8 %), and equipment malfunction (8 %) (Table 1).
Access to the CSG also appears to be appropriately reaching the poorest families in South Africa as receipt was associated with a low monthly income.
