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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Hospital Discharges"”.
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The Effects of External Factors on Social Work Practitioners’ Ethical Decision-Making with Hospital Discharges: An Interpretative Phenomenological Enquiry
… ethical decision-making involved with hospital discharge cases in the Scottish context at the time of continuing pressures on social work practice from managerialism and the integration of health and social care.<br/><br/>Participants in the study were qualified social work …
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Echogenic Biomaterials for Medical Ultrasound Tracking
As the world population ages, hospital discharges of geriatric patients to nursing homes have increased. Patients with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) are routinely discharged with the catheters in place. PICCs, only capable of being tracked through x-ray imaging, will routinely …
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Patient Engagement in Transitional Care
… that was working in partnership with a county hospital system, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. The specific aim was to reduce hospital re-admissions of high-risk patients by supporting patient motivation and engagement in the Transitional Care Program by May 2015. Over a four-month period, …
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The Influence of Federally Qualified Health Centers on Selected Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in Georgia
… care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) resulting in hospitalizations make up a substantial proportion of health care costs, but should not because these conditions are manageable in quality primary care settings that promote prevention in an effort to avoid exacerbations that can lead to …
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Factors Associated with Asthma Readmissions in Children's Hospitals
… chronic illness of childhood. Pediatric asthma hospitalization rates and costs of care have risen in recent years. Readmissions, an adverse outcome often used to monitor quality of care, may account for the increase in asthma hospitalization rates. This research examined selected hospital and …
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Health inequalities in New Zealand: an examination of mortality and hospital utilisation trends, with reference to the compression of morbidity hypothesis
… administrative datasets on morbidity and public hospital discharges in New Zealand between 1974 and 2006 are used in the analyses.<br/><br/>The thesis consists of three papers. Each paper uses the same datasets, but addresses separate research questions using different methods. The first paper is …
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Metagenomic Data Analysis Using Extremely Randomized Tree Algorithm
… captured certain ARGs which were specific to hospital discharges when compared with other aquatic environments. It was determined that the proposed method was efficient in identifying the discriminatory ARGs which could classify the samples according to their groups. Further, it was also …
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The Association of Socioeconomic Status with Mortality and Hospital Length of Stay in Patients with Parapneumonic Empyema
… Health outcomes of empyema (mortality, length of hospital stay and annual hospitalization rate) are also examined. Methods: The National Inpatient Sample (NIS) / The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database was queried for parapneumonic empyema hospitalizations between January 1, …
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Bicycle Travel, Injury Risk and Conspicuity. Application of Epidemiological Methods
… collected through linkage to insurance claims, hospital discharges, mortality records and police reports and covered the period between recruitment and 30 June 2011 (i.e., a median follow-up of 4.6 years). As only a small number of bicycle-motor vehicle crashes were identified in the linked …