title: [Health care based on patients' needs].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Prima Cattedra di Nefrologia, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Pansini 5, Naples, Italy. nataleg.desanto@unina2.it
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: De Santo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gesualdo
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Procaccini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bellinghieri
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Perna
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Savica
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cirillo
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D018802:Patient-Centered Care