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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Clinical Encounters"”.
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Governance and Empowerment in Clinical Encounters: An Ethnography of Toronto's Sexual Health Landscape
… an ethnographic study of sexual health clinical encounters and the meaning this held for the landscape’s social actors.
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What is the self-reported person-centred care competency and observed implementation of final year audiology students during their clinical encounters?
… studies exploring the implementation of PCC in clinical practice. Studies exploring PCC competency and implementation in South Africa are lacking. Furthermore, a paucity of research exists in South African clients' perspectives on PCC. Study aims: 1) explore the self-reported PCC competency of …
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Body of Work
Body of Work is a collection of poetry which explores the nature of care and caregiving. A central concern is the role of the clinician in relationship to patients, loved ones, and the systems that sometimes fail us. The tensions and imbalance apparent in the poems generate a speaker who is …
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AN ANALYSIS OF TALK AND INTERACTIONS IN INITIAL SESSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF COUNSELING AND FAMILY MEDICINE
… developed and maintained in their initial encounters? (2) How are therapeutic relationships and therapeutic discourses developed in initial sessions? (3) How do co-constructed, sequential interactions at the moment produce subsequent actions and interactions such as disclosures, …
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Intensive Treatment Near the End of Life in Advanced Cancer Patients
… aims: 1) to examine the associations between EOL clinical encounters (i.e., EOL conversations with a physician) and treatment intensity in advanced cancer patients near the EOL; and 2) to examine the associations between important SRT constructs (i.e., goal flexibility, hope, and optimism) and …
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Improving speech recognition accuracy for clinical conversations
… and quality of information gathered through clinical encounters by developing a computer system that (a) listens to a conversation between a patient and a provider, (b) uses automatic speech recognition technology to transcribe that conversation to text, (c) applies natural language …
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Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
… artifacts, transnational correspondences, clinical case studies, theoretical essays, and artwork, Dreaming Woman approaches psychoanalysis as a heterogeneous set of clinical and cultural practices through which Argentines have articulated distinctive feminist and anti-imperialist projects …
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The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual
… to describe healing practices in the setting of clinical encounters between patients and doctors. The theoretical background for this research began with the theory of the mind and using concepts from cognitive anthropology described the anthropological self as distinguished from person or …
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Exploring the pathways to poor health in the 'hidden population' with low literacy
… with written and spoken communication in clinical encounters and in self-care activities. They further revealed that stigma frequently plays a central role in the social practices of those with low literacy, affecting their mental wellbeing and social relationships, including those with …
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Validity Evidence for Construct-Aligned Entrustment Assessments in Vascular Surgery
… perception of competence and autonomy in a given clinical encounter. Furthermore, demographic differences in assessment of trainees have been demonstrated across specialties. Given that trainee perception of receiving low autonomy is associated with higher rates of burnout, depression, and …
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"treating the whole person:" an ethnographic study of an integrative medicine pain clinic
… 4) recording the co-created integrative medicine clinical encounter and examining how pain treatment approaches are enacted and perceived. This study took place between August 2008-August 2009, and utilized ethnographic methods that included participant-observation of the daily workings of the …
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A case study exploration of approaches to the delivery of safe, effective and person centred care at two rural community maternity units.
… care at the CMUs. In phase three observations of clinical encounters and interviews with women informed by aide memoire diaries were used. Findings: Maternity services provided by the CMU teams achieved a consistently high standard of safety and effectiveness when measured against national …
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The role of contextual factors during conservative chronic low back pain management
… and targeting implicit elements within clinical encounters may enhance the quality and effectiveness of care. Contextual factors (CFs), such as the patient-practitioner relationship, beliefs/characteristics of patients and practitioners, treatment characteristics, and the therapeutic …
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Towards culturally appropriate speech-language and hearing services : exploring the cultural narrative in initial consultations with Xhosa-speaking patients
… This study has numerous theoretical, clinical and future research implications. It is hoped that these findings will be used to inform the training of clinicians and in practical application in clinical encounters. Although this study was conducted within the field of SLHT, the findings …
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Obstetric-risk objects: a multi-site, feminist ethnography of private-sector obstetric, maternal and unborn, caring concerns in Cape Town
… and to risks ritualised performance in intimate clinical encounters.
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Asylum Seekers and Primary Care in Malta: A Critical Exploration of Healthcare Encounters
… healthcare practices through an exploration of clinical encounters between asylum seekers and healthcare professionals in the primary health care setting in Malta. The research design was guided by an ethnographic approach, with data collated through observation and in-depth interviews. The …