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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Healthcare Provider"”.
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From healthcare provider to healthcare educator: strategies for effective transition
… attempted to identify effective strategies for healthcare providers transitioning into educational leadership roles. The study employed a mixed method research design. The population was selected from colleges and universities, nationally, which sponsored selected healthcare training programs. …
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Providers as Patients: The Healthcare Provider Experience of Infertility in Tennessee
… Physicians and nurses, though trained to provide healthcare to others, are not immune to this struggle. In part due to the high prevalence of infertility in the United States (US), the lack of uniform policies to support this population, and the higher rates of infertility experienced by those in …
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Evaluating a questionnaire assessing healthcare provider perceptions of rural dementia care
… for those living in rural and remote areas. How healthcare providers in rural settings meet the needs of those living with dementia in the community is not well documented. Understanding the challenges of rural healthcare providers is essential for improving services along the continuum of care …
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Weight Gain Counselling in Prenatal Care: Assessing and Improving Patient-Healthcare Provider Interactions
… index. Objectives: Given that not all prenatal healthcare providers (HCPs) are aware of these guidelines nor discuss them with their patients, this thesis sought to examine counselling practices and evaluate a pilot knowledge translation tool for the improvement of such counselling. Methods: 1) …
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Empirical Investigations Into The Causal Impact Of Healthcare Provider Behavior On Patient Care
… in operations management focuses on the study of healthcare operations management using large-scale empirical datasets and econometric methods. In chapter one, we utilize infrared location tracking data to study the impact of physical facility layout on how service workers organize their tasks. We …
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Exploring Male And Female Healthcare Provider Communication With Alzheimer’s Patients: A Qualitative Study
… emotionally draining for both family members and healthcare providers and would be exacerbated by the breakdown in communication. While communication challenges can take many forms, one understudied area in AD patient-provider communication is how gender role might affect the outcomes and …
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Healthcare Provider and Community Adult Knowledge and Beliefs about Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
… (SGM) youth face discrimination and health/healthcare disparities in American society (Mustanski, Birkett, Greene, Hatzenbuehler, & Newcomb, 2014a). Researchers have demonstrated connections between discriminatory beliefs (e.g., homophobia), beliefs about environmental etiology of SGM, and …
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Healthcare provider state restrictions on elective care : effects on direct-to-consumer healthcare advertising.
… policy interventions focused on restricting healthcare providers' ability to perform elective medical procedures. Following implementation of the elective procedure stoppage, healthcare television and outdoor direct-to-consumer advertising spending began fluctuating. Specifically, dental spot …
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Unveiling Gender Bias: An Examination of Healthcare Provider Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries. Insights from Case Vignettes
… among male athletes. This study investigated how healthcare providers diagnose mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in male versus female patients by presenting 208 physicians with randomly assigned gender-based patient vignettes. Physicians rated the likelihood of mTBI based on symptoms in the …
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Relation of Healthcare Provider-Patient Interpersonal Impacts and Health Related Control Appraisals to Patients' Satisfaction and Compliance With Treatment
The current study examined healthcare provider-patient interpersonal impacts and health related control appraisals to patients' satisfaction and compliance with treatment recommendations. Secondary outcomes such as patient satisfaction are becoming increasingly important, and compliance with …
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Exploring lean-trained employee perceptions of organizational change amid an aging crisis at a non-urban regional healthcare provider : an embedded single-case study.
The U.S. healthcare system is facing a worsening aging crisis that is stretching clinical capacity, workforce sustainability, and infrastructure resilience. As patient acuity increases and chronic conditions grow, many healthcare organizations remain stuck in legacy practices and short-term gains, …
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Risk factors for mode of delivery
… the concept of birth trauma as it relates to healthcare provider actions and behaviours via the following research question: What is known about the relationship between healthcare provider actions and women’s perceived birth trauma? Thirdly, a retrospective study was conducted that built on …
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Prenatal Testing Decisions and Motivations In Pregnancies Conceived Via In Vitro Fertilization
… Individuals in both groups commonly listed healthcare provider recommendations as well as results of previous ultrasounds or screening tests as influential factors in their testing decisions. Individuals who had PGT-A were more likely to cite insurance coverage (p=0.023), healthcare provider …
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The Effectiveness of Provider Training to Improve Compliance with Use of Written Asthma Action Plans in the Care of Patients with Asthma
… [CDC], 2012). The clinical problem was providers and nurses were not documenting the use of asthma action plans in the care of patients with asthma at a rural health clinic in Wirt County, West Virginia.;Purpose: The purpose of this capstone project was to implement and evaluate a …
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Using the medical treatment contract as an instrument for replacing the tort liability system in England.
… types of relationships between a patient and the healthcare provider. The main participants in the relationship built around medical treatment are not satisfied with the existing system. Patients do not feel that the system works for them. They are struggling with a lack of information and …
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Therapeutic Alliance: Development, Evaluation, and Application of the Kim Alliance Scale
… of therapeutic alliance between the patient and healthcare provider is a pivotal contributing factor toward optimal healthcare in the current context of rising healthcare costs, shorter hospital stays, and patient's rights. The availability of a well-designed and sound therapeutic alliance …
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What do healthcare providers think of patients who use the Internet?: An exploratory study
… health conditions are becoming more common. Providers have been wary of patient information searches, fearing that, at worst, conflicting information may provoke confrontation and doubt and, at best, the information is trivial or already well known to the provider. For this exploratory study …
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The Association of Health Literacy with Self-care Agency in Older Adults in Jamaica
… health information, social support, and healthcare provider and system engagement). Self-care was measured with an established scale, Appraisal of Self-care Agency Scale. A sample of 200 community-dwelling elders 60 years and older completed the survey. Because the Health Literacy …
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Improving Health Outcomes in Children and Adolescents with Asthma
… children, adolescents, their families, and the healthcare system is immense. Finding ways to mitigate its impact is critical to improving the lives of affected children, adolescents, and their families. The three chapters included in this dissertation aimed to document the asthma triggers that …
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Human immunodeficiency viruses prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis : a doctoral evidence-based practice project
… the impact of educational handouts on increasing healthcare provider comfortability with prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a mobile health clinic. Despite the availability of PrEP, previous literature indicates that providers often refrain from prescribing the treatment due to a lack …
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