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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Evidence-based care"”.
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Improving Provider Compliance With Adult Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patient Care Guidelines In The Ambulatory Setting Through The Use Of Electronic Health Records
… the ability to improve the quality of patient care, patient safety and provide benefits to providers and clinic practices. These systems can transform quality measurement and quality improvement methods, facilitate workflow, and track patients over time to ensure that they receive …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Supervision on Trauma Training Outcomes for Assertive Community Treatment Teams
<p>Most individuals receiving mental health care do not have access to evidence-based psychological treatments, regardless of psychological disorder. Despite the development of effective evidence based treatments and available training, clinician uptake and adherence to such treatments has been …
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Feelings and health effects experienced by non-offending mothers whose prepubescent daughters disclosed sexual abuse by a known perpetrator
… as well as contributing to the development of evidence-based care guidelines.
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Development, implementation and evaluation of harm reduction techniques for drug users.
Recent strategies within health and social care state policies and interventions should be selected on the basis of evidence available to demonstrate their benefits. The provision of services for drug users is no exception to this. Harm reduction is a broad term used to describe drug policies and …
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PTSD, Policy, and Passion: An Advocate's Autoethnographic Journey To Improve Veteran Care
… barriers within the VA and broader healthcare systems, stigma surrounding disability, challenges in reintegration, and the social and psychological implications of untreated PTSD. The study concludes by advocating for policy reform, improved access to evidence-based care, and greater …
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Implementation Strategies to Improve Critical Care Nurses' Knowledge of and Adherence to Evidence-Based Guidelines
Healthcare workers are responsible for providing evidence-based care to patients; however, many patients receive unnecessary or harmful care. Successful implementation of evidence-based guidelines can improve patient outcomes, particularly among vulnerable neuroscience patients. Focused efforts to …
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Family experiences and viewpoints of palliative and supportive care for children with cancer: Can we do better?
Background: The palliative and supportive care needs of children with cancer and their families are unique and require special attention. Children and their families in Africa facing lifethreatening/ life-limiting diseases have unique needs and have the right to achieve effective and evidence-based …
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Process and Outcome Disparities in NICUs: A Grounded-Theory Study
… This dissertation explored the process of care within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) that may be impacting neonatal health outcomes, as perceived by NICU registered nurses (RNs).</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> NICUs are one of healthcare’s most demanding environments. Persistent …
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Implementation of an Evidence-Based Educational Workshop and Toolkit: Menopausal Women's Healthcare Needs for the Primary Care Provider
<p>This evidence-based change of practice project involved the development of an educational workshop for primary care providers (PCPs). The intent of the project was to improve PCP’s knowledge of menopausal health, and to create their comfort level when discussing menopausal healthcare with …
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I, Dentist: Is artificial intelligence the future of oral healthcare?
… that has traditionally been less scientific and evidence-based than that of general medicine. It is also partially driven by an array of economic pressures that have predisposed dentists towards more aggressive and expensive treatment options, as well as by the legitimate ambiguities of clinical …
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Validation Of An Emr Prioritization Tool For Diabetes Population Health
<p>The goal of evidence based population health aligned with financial outcomes is to effectively and efficiently manage a defined population to promote wellness, prevent disease progression and manage chronic conditions and acute events. A prerequisite to this model, which is in its early stages …
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Detailed item analyses of the Postraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5): Use in public safety personnel
… warning systems that facilitate rapid access to evidence-based care. The PTSD Checklist – Version 5 (PCL-5) is a commonly used PTSD screening tool. A recent study (Shields et al., 2017) using the PCL-5 evidenced approximately 30% of paramedics would have screened positively for PTSD based on …
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The Need, Value and Affordability of First-line Treatments for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis in Alberta
… addressing three objectives: 1) Describe “usual care” (UC) patterns of education, exercise, weight management, pain medication and other nonsurgical treatments for knee OA in a cohort of people recommended for nonsurgical care by an orthopaedic surgeon; 2) Estimate the real-world incremental net …
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Formal Caregivers Assisting Residents with Moderate and Severe Alzheimer’s Disease: Investigating the use of Communication Strategies during Activities of Daily Living
… in Canada is on the rise, creating the need for evidence-based care practices designed to support individuals with AD and their care providers. Declines in memory, language, visual-spatial, executive abilities, and functional capacity associated with AD create the need for caregiver assistance …
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Predicting Disease Progression Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks and Longitudinal Electronic Health Record Data
… are widely adopted and used throughout healthcare systems and are able to collect and store longitudinal information data that can be used to describe patient phenotypes. From the underlying data structures used in the EHR, discrete data can be extracted and analyzed to improve patient care …
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An Educational Initiative to Promote Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice (EBP), recognized as essential in providing quality patient care and achieving optimal outcomes, is the integration of the best research evidence, patient preference, and clinician expertise. Healthcare providers must attain expertise in integrating EBP into the clinical …
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Understanding diffusion of evidence-based community cancer care: A case study of network connections in an integrated health system
… patients in community settings fail to receive evidence-based, high-quality cancer care. Networks that connect community clinics and academic medical centers hold potential to address these disparities by creating avenues for knowledge diffusion and access to specialty care, but research on …
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Improving the care of infants with bronchiolitis : Using knowledge translation to close the evidence-practice gap
… clinical guidelines recommend supportive care (respiratory and hydration), and do not recommend use of salbutamol, antibiotics, glucocorticoids, adrenaline or ordering chest radiographs. Despite evidence that these five therapies and management processes have no benefit, variation in …
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Integrated Curriculum in Critical Care Clerkship for Medical Students: Impact on Professional Growth
… of concepts. Purpose: An integrated critical care curriculum provides a strong foundation in the patient care areas of eliciting history, physical examination, clinical reasoning, and patient management. It also fosters practice-based learning (PBL). This educational model integrates …
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Non-elective caesarean sections in the Khomas Region, Namibia: implications for midwifery practice
… was: What are the indications and intrapartum care factors for non-elective CS in the two hospitals, and what are the implications for Midwifery practice? The population consisted of records of women who had given birth by CS between 1st January 2012 and 30th June 2012 in the two hospitals. All …
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