Question

What is the difference between a protocol, standard of care delivery, and policy at the practice, state, and federal level?Briefly outline each. What are the perceptions of the health care delivery system from the perspectives of patients, providers, payers, and policy makers? Discuss at least one perception from all one of the populations listed: patient, provider, payer, and policy maker.

Answer 1

Answer :

* protocol it is a one of the medical guideline, and these are set of instructions, these are used to process to be followed, to investigate the clients problems and to reduce certain types of disorders.

* A standard of care delivery means, providing care to the clients depending upon some rules and regulations, reasonably providing skilled competency care to the clients by the professional health care providers, in order to avoid malpractices.

* policy it is defined as a decisions ,plans and actions that are used or undertaken to meet a specific health care goals or aims.

Hence the protocols are the instructions or rules and regulations .

Standard of care delivery means by using these protocols we can deliver standard health care to the people.

Policies are decisions to meet goals.

These above three are at practice level.

* At state level protocols, standard of care delivery, and policies are subdivisions under the nation level.

* Federal level protocols and standards of care delivery and policies done by autonomously and these federal or national government has supervise states.

" patient centered health care system " is the perceptions of the health care delivery system from the perspectives of the patient.

* health seeking behavior is one of the complex issue, according to the patients perceptions.