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The dissemination of applied health services research
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1981.
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Knowledge Translation Practices Of Health Services Research Organizations In The United States
<p>Health services research organizations have generated a growing body of literature that focuses on better understanding challenges facing health care delivery. However, their findings do not always reach end users (e.g., policymakers, providers, managers, general public) in ways that are …
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Risk, Outcomes, and Costs in Neurosurgery – The New Frontier in Health Services Research
Introduction: Health services research driven from within neurosurgery can be used to improve access to and quality of care, while helping to control costs. Aim: To answer clinically relevant questions that make a difference in patient care.Methods: We chose to use the American College of Surgeons …
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Application of Visualization-based Analytic Methods in Population Health and Health Services Research to Rehabilitation Sciences
… allowing knowledge generation from large healthcare datasets. However, their application in the rehabilitation sciences, particularly related to population health and health services research is limited. This research is divided into two main parts. The first presents two systematic …
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Queering and Intersectionalizing Health Services Research: Structural Influences on Minoritized Sexual and Gender Populations’ Mammogram Usage
… cancer in its earlier stages; a growing body of research on breast/chest cancer screening suggests that sexually and gender minoritized (SGM) populations experience unique barriers to timely detection of breast/chest cancer screening. A notable barrier to preventive health service use among SGM …
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Neonatal resuscitation training in Ireland integrating teaching and research: a quality of care initiative in health services research
… than any other age group. The World Health Organization (1995) estimates that every year there are one million neonatal deaths attributable to birth asphyxia. Due to the unique aetiology and pathophysiology of neonatal arrests, successful resuscitation requires the application of …
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User involvement and improving quality of health and social care.
… of the social interactions which affect health and social care delivery; and ii) improve the quality of health and social care through an increased understanding of patients’/clients’ needs and factors which influence professionals’ practice. The main considerations in selecting the work …
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A Health System Analysis Approach to Health Outcomes in Medicare Clients With Chronic Illnesses
… measurement efforts have provided information to health care consumers, administrators, and policymakers in assessing concerns about access, quality and costs. With a growing population of older adults with chronic illnesses, cost-cutting strategies in health delivery systems, and federal …
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Exploring the Use of Social Network Analysis On Physician Networks Created from Medicare Data through Studying the Use of Minimally Invasive Breast Biopsy Among Physicians: Descriptions, Regressions, and Network Models
… physician relationships and network positions in health outcomes and health outcomes research. However, a better understanding of the interpretation of these physician networks derived from Medicare data is needed in order to fully tap into the potential of network analysis in health services …
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Mental Health Service Utilization among African American Emerging Adults
… individuals, about 41% fail to utilize mental health services. Research indicates that being African American and between the ages of 18 and 29 are associated with decreased rates of service utilization. Yet, less is known about the factors related to mental health service utilization among a …
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A systematic analysis of the differences in process of care and outcomes between patients admitted and not admitted to hospital after a stroke
… and supervised the day-to-day activities of the research team, helped prepare regular feedback pamphlets detailing the progress of the study, presented progress reports to the study supervisors and presented interim findings at national and international meetings. I have undertaken the basic …
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Lower extremity amputation in people with diabetes: Trends and determinants
… focus on the timing of access to secondary healthcare services as a risk factor. Results: There are high levels of agreement between hospital discharge data and medical records for LEA and diabetes. Thus, hospital discharge data was deemed sufficiently reliable for use in this PhD thesis. A …
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Variable Selection and Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Models in Mental Health Research
Mental health research increasingly relies on complex, high-dimensional data arising from heterogeneous populations, longitudinal designs, hierarchical structures, and outcomes exhibiting excess zeros. These characteristics pose significant challenges for variable selection, model estimation, …
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The psychosocial aspects of obesity: a quantitative & qualitative study
This Health Services Research PhD, funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO), investigated the psychosocial aspects of obesity in a community sample of men and women aged 30-60 living in deprived and affluent areas of Greater Glasgow. The study incorporated a mixed method design and combined a …
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Does process quality of inpatient care matter in potentially preventable readmission rates?
… December 31, 2007. Data were obtained from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Database of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare database, and the American Hospital Association Annual Survey of …
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Five year rehospitalization outcomes in a cohort of acute ischemic stroke patients: medicare linkage study.
Background To track mortality and rehospitalizations over 5 years post-stroke in a stroke cohort and compare long-term risks of major complications to a matched non-stroke cohort. Methods A cohort design with a matched non-stroke comparison cohort was used. The stroke cohort (SC) was a validated …
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Understanding and Changing the Patient Safety Culture in Canadian Hospitals
… on organizational culture, safety sciences and health services research suggests varying perspectives on studying culture and an evolving approach to creating tools to measure culture change. This thesis reports two projects. The first project used the Manchester Patient Safety Culture …
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Personal Budgets for all? An Action Research Study on Implementing Self-Directed Support in Mental Health Services
Background: The recent political agenda for health and social care requires more client-centred, personalised services. Self-Directed Support, encompassing Direct Payments and Personal Budgets, is designed to provide people with more choice and control over how their needs and outcomes are met. …
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In the facets of powerlessness: agency as an essential aspect of the self
… treatment remains an integral part of the mental health services, research that focuses on the exploration of patients’ experience remains scarce. Existing investigations mostly rely on quantitative methods that seem to produce inconclusive results or raise methodological concerns. The current …
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