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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Acute hospitals"”.
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Workplace Violence, Organizational Culture, and Registered Nurses' Incident Reporting Patterns in Acute Hospitals in California
… of the reporting patterns of WPV Type II in acute hospital settings. Although some patients are abusive toward nurses, that the abuse is underreported to hospital administrators. Qualitative studies identified common themes for underreporting including fear of being blamed, abuse considered …
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Managing risk; how doctors, nurses and pharmacists optimise the use of medicines in acute hospitals in Northern Ireland: a grounded theory study.
… work to optimise the use of medicines in acute hospital settings in Northern Ireland. Seventeen semi-structured, one-to-one interviews were conducted with doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Concurrent data collection and analysis was carried out using coding, particular to grounded theory, …
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Health service utilisation at the end of life in people with life-limiting illnesses
… including data from emergency departments, acute hospitals, and intensive care units. Patients who used palliative care services in a general hospital and its community palliative care services are described. Novel ways of analysing the databases are performed to generate new information to …
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Transitioning from Curative Care to End-of-Live Care in the Acute Care Hospital: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study
… members of multidisciplinary teams in two urban acute hospitals when transitioning from curative care to end-of-life care with a patient. With so many people continuing to die in acute care hospital wards (Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, 2016; Cavaye & Watts, 2012; Grande, 2009), it …
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Hospital quality and medicare payment: A theoretical and empirical investigation
… and heart attack care. Newly available data on acute hospitals in 2007 from "Hospital Compare" (maintained by CMS) are analyzed. Similar results are provided from pneumonia care and heart failure care. We find a significant positive relationship between Medicare's payment rate and care quality …
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‘Through the patient’s eyes’: shadowing patients at the end of life
… in different end of life settings, including acute hospitals, community and mental health, and care and nursing homes. Data were analysed using Thematic Analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006). Results Participants’ accounts of shadowing revealed that their initial anxieties about aspects of …
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Primary care buildings: government policy, implementation and community involvement in facility planning and design
… the balance of health service delivery away from acute hospitals into an expanded network of primary care services provided from local and community based settings. This had implications for the architecture of primary care, as new and extended facilities were required. Controversially however, …
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Investigations on the physiotherapy management of people following first-time patellar dislocation
… area. Study 1: All 306 National Health Service acute hospitals with an accident and emergency and/or an orthopaedic department were sent a fourteen-item questionnaire pertaining to the management of FTPD. Physiotherapists reported they most commonly assessed this population for reduced …
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Automated tesing of infusion devices
… Medical Engineering Department at the Preston Acute Hospitals. Recommended test procedures specified in the American National Standard and the Draft British Standard for Infusion Devices are also investigated. The development of a test system based on the gravimetric technique is described. The …
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Development and validaton of an indicator to compare antibiotic usage in secondary care in England
The use of antibiotics was investigated in twelve acute hospitals in England. Data was collected electronically and by questionnaire for the financial years 2001/2, 2002/3 and 2003/4. Hospitals were selected on the basis of their Medicines Management Self-Assessment Scores (MMAS) and included a …
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Conceptualisation, development and implementation of the Medical Emergency Team (MET) as a system of management to improve outcomes for seriously ill patients
… inadequate care given to the seriously ill in acute hospitals. This thesis contains background research on some of the reasons why a MET system may be useful, including the limited skills and knowledge of medical training and the sort of acute problems encountered in a hospital at night. …
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Early identification and elective inpatient management of high-risk people living with diabetes diagnosed with COVID-19 decreases morbidity and mortality: a quasi-experimental study
… cater for the anticipated overburdening of the acute hospitals in the Cape Metro. This study evaluated the effects of implementing a telemedicine mediated rapid admission process and applying a tertiary hospital practice guideline (the High Risk Diabetes-COVID-19 protocol - HRDCp) for treating …
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The impact of delirium on cognitive outcomes in population-based studies
Acute hospitals have seen unprecedented demographic changes, where older age, frailty and cognitive impairment now characterise the majority of health service users. Delirium is very common in this setting, and adverse outcomes are well described. However, studies investigating cognitive outcomes …
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Benefit or Burden? Exploring Experiences of the Acute Hospital as a Place of Care Amongst People with Palliative Care Needs
… pressure on health funding, the way in which hospitals are being used in the last year of life is being increasingly scrutinised by leaders, clinicians and policy makers. “Inappropriate” or “potentially avoidable” hospital admissions are seen as opportunities for cost savings. However, there …
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Becoming a ward sister: accident or design?
… and support for new ward sisters are used in NHS acute hospitals in England? - What preparation and support helps nurses manage the transition to the ward sister role? A mixed method research approach was used to answer the questions above. Focus groups with ward sisters were used to review the …
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La valutazione energetico-ambientale dell’ospedale per acuti in fase d’uso. Criteri, indicatori, metodologie di verifica.Energetic and environmental operational hospital buildings assessment. Criteria, indicators and verification methods.
… V. Lo Verso. RESEARCH THEME INTRODUCTION: The acute hospital constitutes a complex organizational and functional system that it is not possible to standardize according to the typology, the architectural solutions and the plant characteristics. The functional areas the hospital consists of …
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Approaches to informing policy and planning in residential aged care: new knowledge from existing data
… Half the new residents enter directly from an acute hospital stay and these are likely to die sooner than others. Over the period of a year, for every 100 residents, an estimated 41 emergency department presentations and 52 hospitalisations occur, of which 38 are acute. When seeking to identify …
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Knowledge and skills for chief nurse executives : a survey of practitioners
… of this study was to survey CNEs of selected acute care hospitals in British Columbia (100 beds or more) to determine the following: the knowledge and skills perceived to be important to the role in the present and future; the time spent using specific knowledge and skills; and recommendations …
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Primary care reform: international evidence and primary care doctors’ perspectives within the context of health system reform in Saudi Arabia
… of health clusters as a collective of PHCC and acute hospitals serving a defined population. In contrast, participants’ viewed relationships with the hospital sector as largely hierarchical with no real collaboration. Participants’ understandings and engagement with the PC reforms as …
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Thesis portfolio
… Hub, Kidderminster Hospital (Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust). Competence 2: Behaviour change intervention: This case study is a 3000-word report (plus a 500-word reflective commentary and observer’s report) of a psychological intervention that has been implemented through …