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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Continuity of Patient Care"”.
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Evaluation of Clinical Pharmacy Impact on Multiple Internal Medicine Teams Utilizing Alternative Rounding Strategies
… studies have demonstrated the positive impact of clinical pharmacist interventions on internal medicine teams. At the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MEDVAMC), the inpatient clinical pharmacy section has a total of five internal medicine (IM) clinical pharmacy specialists …
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Discharge Outcomes : An Evaluation of a Functional Index of Physical Assistance
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between a functional score given to the patient on the day of discharge from an acute setting and the setting to which the patient is discharged. There were 102 subjects (58 female, 44 male) included in the study and their …
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Optimizating and Diffusing a Handover Behavioral Assessment Tool for Simulation
… through the QEP. This study assesses the utility of the Liang Handover Assessment Tool for Simulation (L-HATS), a valid and reliable behavioral assessment tool tested during the transition to clerkship (T2C) handover module. Here, we use the L-HATS to assess handovers delivered during residency …
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Using Ethnography to Capture Learner Experience in Handover Simulation Modules
BACKGROUND: Patient handovers, frequent, diverse, and integral parts of modern medical practice, involve the transfer of patient responsibility from one team of providers to another.1 This transition of care is often fragmented and has been shown to cause various adverse events, including patient …
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Reducing Patient No-Show Rates in Diabetes Clinic
BACKGROUND: Patients missing scheduled appointments, or no-shows, is a pervasive issue across outpatient clinics. The estimated no-show rate among primary care clinics is estimated to be between 14% and 50% (Daggy, Lawley et al. 2010). In addition, no-shows are estimated to cost the US healthcare …
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Designing an Audit and Feedback System to Drive Handoff Redesign and Implementation
Pages i-vii are misnumbered as pages ii-viii.
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Stochastic models and data driven simulations for healthcare operations
… considers problems in two areas in the healthcare operations: Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) and scheduling medical residents in hospitals. In both areas, we explore the implications of policy change through high fidelity simulations. We then build stochastic models to provide strategic insight …
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Effect of Fragmentation of Cancer Care on Treatment Use and Survival in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Development of the Liang Handover Assessment Tool for Simulation (L-HATS)
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Guidelines for Culturally Informed Interventions: Culture, Attributions and Continuity of Care
<p>Although early detection can improve survival of breast and cervical cancer, U.S. Latinas are more likely to be diagnosed at later stages of cancer and have poorer survival rates compared to Anglo women. Poorer continuity of care and adherence to recommended screening are seen as contributing …
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Simpatia and Negative Interpersonal Emotions in Continuity of Health Care
<p>Past research has demonstrated that continuity of care has positive outcomes for patients. Continuous care has been shown to have positive outcomes for the patient, including increased patient satisfaction, decreased hospitalizations, decreased emergency department visits, and improved receipt …
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Perceived Empathy and Continuity of Cancer Screening Care Among Latino and Anglo Women
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine whether patient perceived healthcare professional empathy impacts continuity of cancer screening care among non-Latino white (Anglo) and Latin American (Latino) women after perceiving health care mistreatment. A total of 225 Latino and Anglo women …
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Student Healthcare Providers' Illness Narratives: Impact on Family-Focused Care
… interviewed 30 students training for three areas of healthcare: medicine, nursing, and medical family therapy (MedFT). Through grounded theory analysis of these interviews, we looked to understand how these providers connected their own experiences with illness to their clinical work, particularly …