Health Governance Report, September 2010
To improve outcomes and increase satisfaction among patients in a variety of settings, Anthony M. DiGioia, MD, medical director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) Innovation Center and a practicing orthopedic surgeon, has found an inexpensive but powerful tool: incorporating a patient’s family into what he calls the “care experience home.”
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