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Most healthcare quality improvement and cost reduction efforts currently focus on care processes, or transitions—for example, the hospital discharge process. While identification and adoption of best practices to address these aspects of healthcare are essential, more is needed for systems that serve vulnerable populations: to account for social factors that often inhibit patients’ ability to take...
Patient beliefs about their illness can motivate behaviors consistent with good disease management. Perceived high‐quality chronic care would be expected to increase likelihood of having such beliefs. Associations between perceived quality of chronic care and illness representations, and associations between patient centeredness and illness representations were assessed among persons with diabetes...
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