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The medical home, [1] also known as the patient-centered medical home or primary care medical home (PCMH), is a team-based health care delivery model led by a health care provider [2] to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with a goal to obtain maximal health outcomes.
The Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research about physical therapy. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Physical Therapy Association and was established in 1921. [1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 3 ...
Composite measures or combined measures are common in clinical research. [1] [2] The rationale is that combining different outcome measures gives greater statistical power. For example, the composite measure "Killed or Seriously Injured" is often used in studies of road safety. While deaths are easier to count and are an outcome of undisputed ...
The OHS is the most commonly used patient-reported hip specific measure available, because it can be completed anywhere. [ 7 ] The OHS and the Oxford Knee Score (OKS) were both adopted by the UK Department of Health for the assessment of hip and knee replacement operations carried out each year in National Health Service hospitals.
The Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) is a coalition of approximately 1,000 organizations and individuals, employers, consumer, and patient/family advocacy groups, patient quality organizations, health plans, labor unions, hospitals, physicians, and other health professionals.
Conforms to Cimino (1998) criteria for a standardized healthcare terminology. Coded standardized framework for electronic documentation, retrieval, and analysis. Codes based on ICD-10 (WHO, 1992) structure for information exchange promoting interoperability.
Flexner's broader reform plan, which aimed to elevate medical education in the United States, was fundamentally dependent on state medical boards functioning as effective gatekeepers to the profession. He insisted that state boards must rigorously ensure that only those who completed proper, standardized training could enter medical practice.
The McKenzie method is a technique primarily used in physical therapy.It was developed in the late 1950s by New Zealand physiotherapist Robin McKenzie. [1] [2] [3] In 1981 he launched the concept which he called "Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT)" – a system encompassing assessment, diagnosis and treatment for the spine and extremities.