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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Healthcare Improvement"”.
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Patient Portal Use in a Community Medical Group: A Healthcare Improvement Project
… aim of this two part research translation and healthcare improvement project is to promote patient engagement by identifying the factors that affect a patients’ decision to use a patient portal as well as to identify potential strategies to promote portal use. Phase I of the project involved …
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A systems approach to the use of routinely collected data for healthcare improvement
Healthcare is increasingly digitised and recorded, producing huge volumes of ‘routinely- collected’ data. This data is increasingly viewed as a valuable resource for the improvement of healthcare, although a truly unifying framework to translate data into knowledge and thence change is lacking. …
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The Advanced Practice Nurse and Patient-Centered Medical Home: Maintaining Patient Focus, Meeting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim Through the Electronic Health Record
<p>The Federal Government enacted the Heath Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) in 2009, which incentivized providers to use electronic health records (EHR) for meaningful use (MU); the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) stems from the Act. Research by the …
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On healthcare and healing - my inquiry into learning from giving birth too soon - learning from and for liminality
… in neonatal units and years of community-based healthcare interventions for my children, I turned to both action research and healthcare improvement as a path to self-recovery and contribution-making. I describe my starting point of traumatic challenges to my person as a ‘digging the ground …
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A Systems Approach to Global Health
… enterprise, global health involves not only the improvement of healthcare, but also embraces academic, political and educational perspectives. The complexity and scale of this endeavour challenges reductive approaches to intervention: many efforts to make matters better either do not work, or do …
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A Framework for Clinical Healthcare Process Design: Investigating Applicability to Lean
<p>Healthcare delivery is a process-driven sequence of patient care treatments and services. A prescribed method for process design is required in order for healthcare organizations of the future not just to innovate, but to safely provide highly-reliable patient care. Some healthcare organizations …
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Developing A Next Generation Strategic Structure For Sustainable Safety Culture: Utilizing "leading A Culture Of Safety: A Blueprint For Success"
<p>During the first generation of patient safety, healthcare leaders began to learn about, assess, and try to improve their organization’s safety culture. However, they never developed or agreed upon an evidenced-based tool containing proven strategies to improve safety culture (NPSF, 2015). Though …
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Traumatic lives finally liberated. Narrative exposure therapy in patients with severe mental illness
Contains fulltext : 289613.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Doctor of nursing practice (DNP) quality improvement (QI) project : implementation of a nurse-driven bedside swallow screening protocol in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
… practice. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to implement a nurse-driven bedside swallow screening protocol in a PICU to promote early identification of dysphagia and improve nursing confidence in assessing swallowing function. Methods: Guided by the Institute for …
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DNP project : increasing patient portal engagement to promote disease self-management in a rural health clinic
… however, utilization remains low in rural healthcare settings. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to increase patient engagement with the electronic patient portal in a rural health clinic, with a primary focus on adult patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: This …
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Intranasal Naloxone Adminstration Education
… on intranasal naloxone administration to healthcare providers in Lake County in order to educate patients, their families, peers, and members of their social network. Fatal opioid overdose rates from prescribed or illicit opioids are four times greater in Lake County than California. The …
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Designing A Care Delivery System Through Interprofessional Coordinated Care In A Medical Neighborhood Setting
… two significant aims: to improve the quality of healthcare and in doing so, to lower the cost of healthcare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and mental health, which in 2005 …
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A comprehensive approach to preventing errors in a hospital setting: Organizational behavior management and patient safety
… the U.S., or about 40,000 per day (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2007). Although several organizational behavior management (OBM) intervention techniques have been used to improve particular behaviors related to patient safety, there remains a lack of patient-safety-focused behavioral …
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Improving patient outcomes through use of the teach-back method in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit
… home self-care. The Joint Commission, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement all state that the teach-back method for discharge planning is best practice. Project data was collected through observation, microsystem assessments and through nurse and …
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Time to reflect: How portfolio use helps and hinders self-regulated learning
Contains fulltext : 292266.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Lived Experience Of Healthcare Leadership Dyads: Perceptions Of Agency
<p>Healthcare leadership is evolving in response to recommendations from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Physicians and administrators are partnering to form leadership dyads. These leadership dyads are focusing on improving healthcare quality, decreasing costs, and improving access. …
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The physician assistants and nurse practitioners in the Netherlands: a solution for healthcare
Contains fulltext : 297633.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Fighting until the end. Nursing home residents with dementia and very severe or extreme challenging behavior: starting points for optimizing care
Contains fulltext : 299191.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Contains fulltext : 299191 Publiekssamenvatting.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Shared guideline development: experiences in fertility care
Contains fulltext : 169060.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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