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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Inpatient care"”.
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Chronic Pain Management in the Inpatient Care Setting
… with nursing pain interventions on an inpatient medical surgical unit with a high population of patients with chronic pain (as much as 30%). Nurses and patients were surveyed using a brief survey to determine the baseline comfort levels of comfort with chronic pain management. The …
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Young persons' experiences of inpatient care when presenting with self-harm
In the UK, self-harm is a major healthcare problem. Self-harm is an especially common behaviour in young people admitted to psychiatric inpatient care and is one of the primary reasons for presenting to hospital. The management and treatment of self-harming behaviours can be challenging, and few …
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Does process quality of inpatient care matter in potentially preventable readmission rates?
… the association between process quality of inpatient care and risk-adjusted, thirty-day potentially preventable hospital readmission (PPR) rates. Data Sources/Study Setting: This was an observational cross-sectional study of nonfederal acute-care hospitals located in two states California …
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The impact of market forces and public health insurance on inpatient care
… both private and public-sector influences on inpatient care, focusing first on the impact of strategic hospital behavior on entry into new procedure markets, and second on the effect of changes in Medicaid and Medicare on hospital care. Chapter 1, "Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure …
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The costs of adult inpatient care for HIV disease at GF Jooste Hospital
The lack of patient care and utilisation data impairs the ability of hospital and clinic administrators to make informed, data-driven policy choices. This concern is particularly acute with HIV/AIDS, given both the striking growth in the local epidemic over the last two years and the high level of …
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The impact of social robots on young patients' socio-emotional wellbeing in a pediatric inpatient care context
… I investigate this in the context of pediatric inpatient care. Children and their parents may undergo challenging experiences when admitted for inpatient care at pediatric hospitals. While most hospitals make efforts to provide socio-emotional support for patients and their families during care, …
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RANDOMIZED COST COMPARISON OF CARDIAC MRI USE IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENTS WITH CHEST PAIN
… unit (OU) cardiac MRI (CMR) strategy and inpatient care. Methods A single center clinical trial randomized 110 patients with intermediate-risk chest pain (TIMI ≥2 or clinical impression) to OU CMR (OU care, serial cardiac markers and stress CMR) or inpatient care (admission, care …
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In-home health care and hospitalization status
… describe the relationship between in-home health care services for elderly patients who were recently discharged from inpatient care and re-hospitalization rates. The design was descriptive and the hypothesis was that the provision of in-home health care services would mitigate a decline in the …
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The Effect of Pediatric Hospital Specialization on Patient Safety and Effectiveness of Care
… specialization is an area of interest in health care as patients, payers and policy makers are now demanding better performance and demonstrated proof of the benefits of specialization. While previously ignored in the specialization debate, now even the hospitals focusing on pediatric care (i.e. …
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Information Use with Paper and Electronic Nursing Documentation by Nurses Caring for Pediatric Patients
… as a strategy to improve the quality of care provided to hospitalized patients. The literature to support the use of electronic nursing documentation on the quality of care delivered to patients is limited to date. Additionally, the literature describing the use of information for the …
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Decisional Capacity in Psychiatric Inpatient Settings: Understanding and Addressing Key Barriers to Shared Decision Making
… decision making (SDM) is implemented within inpatient care across the VHA varies significantly. International literature on this topic suggests that clinicians' concern around patients’ reduced decisional capacity is a frequently reported barrier to SDM implementation, yet determining …
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State Level Mental Health Policy Making Under Managed Care
The adoption of managed care in public mental health care programs at the state level was a relatively new development in state mental health policy during the 1990s. The introduction of managed care for public mental health occurred primarily through the use of Medicaid managed care waivers, but …
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Exploring the experience of community adjustment following discharge from a low secure forensic unit
… been identified as a common interface between inpatient care and care in the community. However, to date, no research has specifically explored the lived experience of discharge from such units. The present study aimed to address this by using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to …
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Provision of Medical - Laboratory Services in the General Medical Practice /// Осигуреност с медико - лабораторни услуги в общата медицинска практика
… laboratory is part of the outpatient and inpatient care in Bulgaria and the laboratory results ensure optimal options for establishing an early diagnosis and determining the effect of treatment and the degree of health recovery. Territorial disproportions in the provision of healthcare …
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Discharge Outcomes : An Evaluation of a Functional Index of Physical Assistance
… discharged home and those who were discharged to inpatient rehabilitation (Rehab) or skilled nursing facility (SNF). Diagnosis was most significant when comparing those discharged home independently versus home with physical therapy and also those discharged to Rehab versus SNF. Function was found …
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Protecting the Rights of Limited English Proficiency Patients During Hospital Discharge
… to alleviate the burden of transitioning from inpatient hospitalization to outpatient care. The US healthcare model's evolution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has firmly distinguished inpatient providers from outpatient providers, with little continuity between them. As a patient leaves …
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Improving Medication Reconciliation on Admission and Discharge in the Behavioral Health Adult Partial Hospitalization Program
… It also helps clients make the transition from inpatient care to home. Before and after implementation, we conducted a workflow assessment, staff surveys, and chart audits. Before implementation, medication reconciliation was completed 60% of the time upon admission and 25% of the time at …
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A systems analysis of an area mental health service
… and very poorly monitored. They did not provide care that was comprehensive and the population they were intended to service was not clearly specified. Information about who used the services, where they came from and why, was difficult to obtain. There were no psychiatric beds in the general …
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The clinical spectrum and outcome of dermatological conditions in patients admitted to dermatology wards of Groote Schuur Hospital-Cape Town South Africa
… analysis to describe the dermatology inpatients who were admitted to dermatology wards at Groote Schuur Hospital over the period January 2017 to December 2017. Results: There were a total of 120 admissions to Groote Schuur Hospital Dermatology wards in 2017. Of these, 89 (74.1%) were …
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Bacterial pneumonia hospitalization and pneumonia inpatient mortality in Texas, 1999-2007
… the elderly. It is considered as an ambulatory care-sensitive condition by the Agency for Healthcare and Research (AHRQ), for which good outpatient care can potentially prevent the need for hospitalization or for which early intervention can prevent complications or more severe disease that lead …
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