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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Hospital care"”.
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Paediatric patient's and their caregivers' perceptions of hospital care
INTRODUCTION Caring for paediatric patients in hospital can be a challenge to many healthcare professionals. To help ensure that quality paediatric care is being delivered it is helpful to gain feedback about how paediatric patients and their caregivers perceive hospital care. Positive feedback can …
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The Process of Recovery in People with Schizophrenia Exposed to Day Hospital Care
… of schizophrenia who participated in day hospital program for more than three months. Qualitative method, using deep interview with semi-structured questionnaires, was applied. The qualitative analysis showed the empirically derived description of the process of recovery according to 4 …
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Analysis of the quality of hospital care: methodological and empirical issues in the Italian context
… dell’assistenza ospedaliera, e di identificare degli indicatori appropriati per una sua valutazione. Il presente lavoro ha esaminato la qualità dell’assistenza ospedaliera, considerando fattori relativi alla domanda, all’offerta e allo scenario istituzionale, tra cui la modalità di …
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Spillover Effects Of Medicare Advantage Plans: Does The Market Penetration Of Plans Affect Hospital Care Quality?
<p>The percentage of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans increased from 12 percent in 2003 to 28 percent in 2013 out of the about 50 million Medicare enrollees. Although Medicare beneficiaries are increasingly choosing MA plans, little is known about whether and how the …
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The Relationship Between Hospital Care and Outpatient Care in Mental Health: A Historical and Statistical Analysis
… efforts were made to reform the public mental hospital through an expansion of community-based outpatient care. It was assumed that an increased use of outpatient care would reduce the use of the mental hospital. This study tested that assumption. The state of Ohio served as the setting for the …
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An investigation of endotracheal intubation and alternative intubation devices for use by paramedics in out-of-hospital care
… the effectiveness of ETI attempts in the out-of-hospital environment. There are several complications associated with ETI and alternative intubation devices (AIDs) are available to help overcome a number of these, though are not currently used in paramedic practice. There is a limited amount of …
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Do Not Resuscitate? The impact of standardised resuscitation documentation on the approach to hospital care in older patients
When hospital clinicians care for older, chronically unwell and dying patients, one part of their role is recognising the limitations of curative medicine. If these limitations are not considered pre-emptively, medical teams risk providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other invasive …
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The voices of adults with a learning disability and a carer on their orthopaedic and trauma hospital care in the UK
… wellbeing. Despite this, orthopaedic and trauma hospital care has not been investigated with this group who seldom have their voices heard or their experiences valued and interpreted. This study contributes to the existing evidence base by exploring the experiences of people with a learning …
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The demand for hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed public and private health care system : theoretical and empirical analysis for the case of Australia
… the processes that underlie how individuals seek hospital care and purchase private health insurance in a mixed public and private hospital system such as that of Australia. To achieve this objective, a theoretical model with explicit functional forms is first developed to analyse the determinants …
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The demand for hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed public and private health care system : theoretical and empirical analysis for the case of Australia
… the processes that underlie how individuals seek hospital care and purchase private health insurance in a mixed public and private hospital system such as that of Australia. To achieve this objective, a theoretical model with explicit functional forms is first developed to analyse the determinants …
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Hospital Cost Functions and Quality
… quality when included in the specification of a hospital cost function. Also, this research estimates a value for scale economies in order to determine if the average hospital experiences increasing returns to scale in the production of hospital care, verifying such findings in previous …
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Management of Patients with Alcohol Dependence in General Medical Practice // Мениджмънт на пациенти с алкохолна зависимост в общата медицинска практика
… individuals within the framework of pre-hospital care. A population of 610 adults was studied using a screening questionnaire, biochemical markers and ultrasound diagnostics of the liver. A high frequency of alcohol consumption was established, as well as a large number of individuals …
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A study of health care reform effects on the function and philosophy of discharge planners: a proposed change in the curriculum for hospital discharge planners
Results and Implications The Medicare data used for the study comes from previous RAND studies and data from a sample community hospital for comparisons of average lengths of stay, post hospital utilization, characteristics of patients who have a propensity to use post hospital care by gender, age …
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Essays in Applied Health Economics: Evidence on Health and Health Care in Italy and UK
… 1998) in the specific economic framework of hospital care services provided by the Italian National Health Service (NHS). In order to test the empirical predictions by Sutton, we identify the relevant markets for hospital care services in Italy in terms of both product and geographic …
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and various lockdown levels on emergency medical services response times to trauma incidents in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… provided evidence of the importance of out-of-hospital care for the lives of the patients depending on access to prompt medical care. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) serve as the first step in accessing the healthcare system for many within South Africa and as such played a pivotal role in the …
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Moving home : exploring older peoples' experiences of hospital discharge
… experiences of the older person leaving acute hospital care and returning to their own home. The project aims are summarised as below:*To develop an understanding of individuals' experiences within discharge preparation and planned support while they are preparing for home, getting home and …
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Drug-related problems in the elderly - Interventions to improve the quality of pharmacotherapy
… Elderly patients that had been discharged from hospital were identified. All information on their medications prior to, during and after hospital care was collected. Medication errors during transfer between care levels were identified. (Paper III) Educational outreach visits were offered …
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Women’s perspectives of home birth with a traditional birth attendant in the East African Community: a qualitative evidence synthesis
… that incorporates traditional and medical care from TBAs and hospital care providers. These findings suggest that TBAs should be upskilled and co-production of care between TBAs and health care providers creates a collaborative partnership improving mortality.
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We Must Teach Wisely and Lead Aright': Civic Literacy and Writing Pedagogy In Late Nineteenth Century American Women's Journalism
… in the service of social causes including hospital care for poor and homeless children, racial uplift, and Native American Indian rights; 2) inspire civic literacy among readers; and 3) enact rhetorical education and/or writing instruction. Black, Mossell, and La Flesche use journalism as a …
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Socioeconomic Status and the Management of Chronic Conditions: Implications for the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health
… on routine contact with a doctor for diabetes care increases the probability of adherence compared to reliance on emergency or hospital care, controlling for sites of care does not explain socioeconomic disparities in adherence. Adherence to most components of the regimen is also improved if …
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