New York policy makers must address these care gaps and reimbursement inadequacies to ensure access to and continuity of care to all disabled citizens regardless of age.
A study of hospitals in Queens has found uneven care, gaps in service, an insufficient number of beds for the borough's estimated 2.3 million residents and a delivery of health care that "is not sustainable in the current state".
At the moment we have plenty of evidence of big care gaps, variations, poor access to services and for people with multiple conditions or frailty, poorly coordinated services which don't talk to each other and don't provide older people with the support they need.
That is, data relating to experiences of prisoners reflecting the adequacy of care, gaps in care, barriers and facilitators of adequate care were extracted and presented in narrative form according to dominant themes.
The identified gaps were communicated to all intervention health facilities and encouraged to initiate necessary corrective measures with a promised token incentive, should service providers succeed in narrowing the quality care gaps.
In conclusion, the PPAQ is a new tool to assess implementation of asthma and COPD guidelines; it has the potential to identify care gaps that can be specifically targeted for intervention.
