[Health care based on patients' needs].
Survival is not enough. We need to build a health system starting from patients' needs without wasting the resources of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We have to switch from curative to preventive medicine by firing managers who think they can resolve all problems by cutting expenditures. We need to educate a new cadre of managers able to govern by centering the system on the patients. Managers should consider health care as an asset and should reinforce clinical research. Such a program has been recently adopted in France.
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Prima Cattedra di Nefrologia, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Pansini 5, Naples, Italy. nataleg.desanto@unina2.it
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Procaccini
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Bellinghieri
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Perna
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Savica
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Santoro
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Cirillo
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D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D018802:Patient-Centered Care