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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Community Hospitals"”.
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Interprofessional Roles Shoulder Dystocia: Maximizing Safety in Community Hospitals
… events have not been available to small, rural hospitals because of lack of talent and equipment, creating a gap in resources. Other than demonstrations by manikin companies, this author has currently been unable to sufficiently document the existence of active, non-academic resources for …
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Embedding a Culture of Research in Canadian Community Hospitals
… culture is experienced and shaped in Canadian community hospitals to provide strategies for strengthening community hospital research culture. This qualitative interpretive study employed Schein’s Model of Organizational Culture as a theoretical framework to identify the underlying components …
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A Multivariate Analysis and Classification of Large Community Hospitals
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A National Study of Co-Sponsored Continuing Medical Education Category One Programming Activities Between Medical Schools and Community Hospitals
… the extent of medical school involvement with community hospitals in providing co-sponsored Category One Continuing Medical Education programs on an on-going basis for hospital physician staffs; and how these models compare to the University of Illinois College of Medicine's Clinical Up-date …
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Primary health care facilities for street children : a study of the street children's requirements in designing community hospitals in Angola
This dissertation studies the delivery of health care to street children. ft investigates the existing street children's facilities and the health system in Ang of a in order to determine an appropriate type of health facilities for the special health needs of these children. The study was based on …
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A probabilistic model for estimating demand for selected existing rural community hospitals that may be facing closure in West Virginia
… how local factors influence patient choice among hospitals. Administrators need to know why patients are admitted to their hospitals so they can develop more sophisticated marketing of their services in an increasingly competitive environment. Planners concerned with issues of patient …
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Identification of Nurse-Controlled Predictors of Pain in Patients Undergoing a Total Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty
… total hip or knee arthroplasty in one of four community hospitals in San Diego, California.</p> <p><strong>Background: </strong>The epidemic of opioid-related adverse events creates a need for opioid sparing approaches to pain management. Pain management practices have been studied in relation …
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From Bench to Bedside: Putting Practical Ethics on the Road in Rural North Carolina
… has a minimal presence in small rural and community hospitals, which serve nearly a third of the American population. Rural hospitals and rural professionals face a unique set of ethical challenges stemming from the characteristics of rural culture and limited access to technology, …
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The changing political economy of hospitals: the emergence of the "business model" hospital
… wholly different from those of traditional community hospitals. This research describes this new political economy of health care and identifies, via analysis of field interviews, the crucial issues faced by hospital administrators today and specific actions they are taking to adapt to their …
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A collaborative video-conferencing system for improving care during neonatal transport
… care provided to critically ill infants born at community hospitals who need to be transported to tertiary care centers for specialized neonatal treatment. Providing real-time effective communication between community physicians, transport teams, and specialists will lead to better decisions …
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Trends in Receipt and Timing of Multimodality Therapy in Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer
… compared to patients 18–55). Compared to community hospitals, patients treated at an NCI-designated center were more likely to receive multimodality therapy (OR 1.62, 95 % CI 1.46–1.81) and, if they received multimodality therapy, delivery of chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant compared to …
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Trends in Receipt and Timing of Multimodality Therapy in Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer
… compared to patients 18–55). Compared to community hospitals, patients treated at an NCI-designated center were more likely to receive multimodality therapy (OR 1.62, 95 % CI 1.46–1.81) and, if they received multimodality therapy, delivery of chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant compared to …
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Trends in Receipt and Timing of Multimodality Therapy in Early Stage Pancreatic
… compared to patients 18-55). Compared to community hospitals, patients treated at an NCI-designated center were more likely to receive multimodality therapy (OR 1.62, 95% CI 1.46-1.81) and, if they received multimodality therapy, delivery of chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant compared to …
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Integration of evidence-based practice by acute care nurse practitioner
… Ten practicing ACNPs from 2 large teaching and 1 community hospitals were interviewed in a major, southern city in the United States. The transcripts were reviewed -and thematic descriptors were identified. The ACNPs were overwhelmingly supportive of the use of EBP within imposed limits and the …
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Optimal allocation of surgical services
… has witnessed the consolidation of multiple community hospitals into larger care organizations and a renewed focus on the delivery of affordable care. In order for the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMc) to respond and adapt to this changing landscape it will be critical to not only …
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Description of Medical-Surgical Nurses Care of Patients at Risk for Pressure Ulcers
… Method: The study was conducted in three (3) community hospitals within the same healthcare system using an Interpretive Description approach. Six (6) focus groups were conducted including thirty (30) participants. Findings: Participants described their knowledge of PU development and …
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The Nurse’s Story: A Qualitative Study Of How Nurses Experience Caring For Patients Who Die Unexpectedly
… included nurse professionals working in rural community hospitals in Upstate New York. The nurse professionals in the study were exclusively those who identify and practice as registered nurses (RN). The nurses were asked to share their experiences of repetitive exposure to critical incidents …
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Biomedical disenchantments: practices, discourses, and imaginaries of transnational biomedicalization in rural Ethiopia
… by transnational processes in a rural Ethiopian community. I examine how Ethiopian and volunteer American physicians navigate intersections of globalized standards and technologies with site-specific clinical realities and sociopolitical structures to provide patient care and engage in …
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A Multi-Method Analysis of Hospital Readmissions and Medicare Penalties
… in the United States, with Medicare penalizing hospitals whose readmission rates exceed benchmarks. This research examines factors associated with readmissions, identifies the types of hospitals most likely to receive penalties, and evaluates how hospitals respond to these penalties. The work is …
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A Generic Simulation-based Perioperative Decision Support Tool for Tactical Decision
… for a simulation-based decision tool to help hospitals inform decisions that can lead to improved access and efficiency. A generalised, simulation based perioperative decision tool is presented that can be used to test a variety of tactical decisions. The generic model has been applied to six …
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