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Paige Cooke Defines the Role of a Patient-Centered Specialty Practice
Paige Cooke, assistant director, customer engagement, National Committee for Quality Assurance, says that primary care practices cannot effectively deliver patient-centered care without coordinating a patient's care across different healthcare settings.
Paige Cooke, assistant director, customer engagement, National Committee for Quality Assurance, says that primary care practices cannot effectively deliver patient-centered care without coordinating a patient’s care across different healthcare settings.
“The intent of the patient-centered specialty practice is to ensure that those high-referred specialty groups and clinicians are making sure that they’re actually appropriately responding to referrals in a timely fashion, ensuring that there’s the appropriate medication management,” says Ms Cooke. “It’s important to understand that care coordination is critical in order to be able to really deliver patient-centered care that addresses the wide variety of care needs of their shared patient population.”
A meta-analysis showed that control group outcomes in psilocybin trials for depression were significantly weaker than those in selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and esketamine trials, suggesting that psilocybin’s large observed treatment effects may be inflated by methodological factors such as functional unblinding and expectancy bias.
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It Take a Village in Cancer Care: A Q&A With David Nguyen, MD
July 23rd 2025David Nguyen, MD, medical oncologist with Tufts Medicine and Lowell General Hospital, discusses the evolving landscape of advanced cancer treatments like chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy and bispecific antibodies
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