Both appropriate ethnic targeting of care (because of patient factors including language and culture) and ethnic shortfalls in care may underlie our results.
This has resulted in considerable clinical and research interest in identifying such subgroups and better targeting of care for individual patients [ 14– 17].
The need for identifying subgroups that could improve prediction of outcome and allow better targeting of care has been repeatedly raised as a research priority in spinal pain [ 13, 14].
The degree of distress may contribute to avoidance of picking up the full range of activities again after delivery and the feeling that a wrong movement could lead to a serious problem, making individual concerns and worries an important target of care.
When necessary, question probes were used to elicit discussion on key topic areas such as the elements of the Holmes model (life expectancy, treatment targets, goals of care and time until benefit) that did not emerge spontaneously in the conversation.
Frequent emergency department (ED) users have been the targets of health care reform proposals and hospital crowding interventions, but it is not clear that common assumptions about this group are supported by data.
As it happens with targets of critical care practice other than hemodynamics, integrated monitoring remains fundamental, and ECHO is in the best position to be used in conjunction with other devices (pulse contour technique based cardiac output monitors, pulmonary artery catheter, PiCCO) [13].
This statement presumes that all diseases are targets of palliative care.
The international perspective is supported by the facts that the basic targets of ICU care are internationally quite similar and the decision making of ICU personnel has also been found to be internationally comparable [ 34].
This case study describes a comprehensive program that includes: a community-based intervention using multidisciplinary care teams that work closely with the patient's primary care provider; an acute care intervention bundle with collaborative team-based care; and a skilled nursing facility intervention emphasizing standardized transitions and targeted use of care pathways.
