It can also help them understand and identify the components of high-quality care that are important to patients.
In Canada, it is used to cover things like dental care that are not met by public insurance.
The results of the study are likely to influence other reorganisations of stroke care that are taking place – in Birmingham and Coventry, for instance.
Amid the building boom here in Indianapolis, some hospitals are laying off employees or scaling back programs, like psychiatric care, that are less generously reimbursed.
But unlike so many aspects of child care that are clearly laid out by pediatrician's decree or government regulation, this is a rite of passage without clear guidelines.
The government is currently consulting on changes to social care that are likely to see a uniform national threshold of care set at "substantial" needs by 2015.
Another is the number of organisations providing poor quality care that are allowed to continue, as the recently published NHS Atlas reveals only too clearly.
Across the country, children with psychiatric illnesses are at the mercy of systems of care that are difficult to access and lack essential resources.
He has taken positions on global warming, energy taxes, education, Social Security and health care that are decidedly nonpartisan and, in a few cases, seemingly un-Republican.
The approaches to home care that are available, as well as fees, eligibility criteria, and services that are offered, often vary between states, provinces, or municipalities.
In other words, it's not those on the front lines of delivering care that are the problem.
