The policy focus on identifying a time point for transition to palliative care has little resonance for people with COPD or their clinicians and is counter productive if it distracts from early phased introduction of supportive care.
The policy focus on identifying a time point for transition to palliative care has little resonance with these accounts from patients, informal carers, and professional carers, and may be counterproductive if it distracts professional carers from timely consideration of providing much needed supportive care.
Together, these findings point to policy interventions focusing on identifying heart disease and equalizing treatment of those with heart disease.
"To have a policy that is based on identifying individuals who are likely to become violent is a failed policy from the beginning".
Social policy should be based on identifying the unfortunate by income, not colour, and helping them by direct support making poor schools better not by dropping standards in universities.
Beginning in August, as 2009 H1N1 activity expanded, the national policy changed to focus on identifying patients admitted to hospital and continuing routine sentinel influenza surveillance.
Study of transportation infrastructure of various cities and its environmental, economic and social impacts could shed some light on identifying successful policies for sustainable transportation.
Fire officials have said that their inquiry will focus on identifying management and policy initiatives that would improve the department's response to the next disaster.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of an interdisciplinary team-training program in obstetric emergencies on identifying unsupportive institutional policies and systems-based practices.
The Dutch policy for preventing secondary cases compares to the policy in most Western countries and is based on identifying and prophylactically treating close contacts.
