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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Low-income patients"”.
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Food Security and Glycemic Control Among Low-Income Patients with Diabetes
… distress and medication adherence -- among low-income individuals with diabetes. Design: Secondary analysis of baseline data from Peer Support for Achieving Independence in Diabetes, a randomized controlled trial that enrolled patients from November 2011 to October 2013. Participants: …
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Study of Brief Single Session Medical Family Therapy with Low-Income Patients
… session of MedFT over a one-week period with low-income primary care patients. Effectiveness in this study was defined as increasing a sense agency and communion and decreasing psychological distress. Results suggested that over time, MedFT may increase some sense of agency for lower-income …
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Attrition in a Telephonic Intervention Program for Depressed, Low-Income Patients in a Primary Care Setting
… health intervention for depressed primary care patients. Clients who dropped out at different time points during the intervention were compared to determine whether they differed demographically or on certain baseline characteristics, including severity of depression, self-efficacy, …
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Use of Preventive Screening for Cervical Cancer among Low-income Patients in a Safety-net Healthcare Network
… of survey data collected in fall 2000 from patients of a safety-net hospital and its eight community health outreach clinics in Fort Worth, Texas. The study examined three objectives. These include explaining the utilization of Pap smear tests among the sample who were low-income women, by …
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Strategic Community Healthcare Management
… for Community Health Centers and management of low income patients with chronic illnesses. This paper also reviews the fieldwork experience at a FQHC. It reviews the goals, project, methods and findings of the fieldwork. This paper also elaborates on the scope of the project and a quality …
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Views of health care providers on low-income populations in West Virginia with sexually transmitted disease
… diagnose sexually transmitted disease (STDs) in low-income populations. Eighteen providers ranging from registered nurses to physicians were interviewed about their experiences dealing with low-income patients, mainly women, who were diagnosed with incurable and curable STDs for the first time. …
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Educating Nurses to Improve Patient Care
… county primary care clinic serving veterans and low-income patients with chronic illnesses, especially diabetes mellitus. As a CNL educator for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Management, this project focused on on best practice diabetes management education, training nurses to properly …
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The need for physician referral of low-income, chronic disease patients to free community nutrition education programs
… of chronic diseases and conditions among older, low-income individuals in the United States. It is well recognized that diet plays an important role in the management and prevention of chronic diseases. Despite this, primary-care physicians often do not provide adequate dietary counseling or …
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Provision of free ARV in public facilities in Tanzania : do the poor benefit?
… Through the public sector, however, and for low-income patients, the choice of drugs may be somewhat restricted. This has implications for decisions such as when to start therapy, which therapeutic regimens to use, and what to do when treatment fails. The situation requires difficult choices …
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Safety Net System: A Case Study of Primary and Specialty Care for Uninsured Residents in Cobb County, Georgia
… primary and specialty care accessibility for low-income patients as evidenced by the availability of resources, affordability of services, accountability of quality care, and policies for the uninsured. The study provides insight for assessing the circumstances in Cobb County and supplies …
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Essays on Health Care Accessibility
… NPs does not change the volume or allocation of patients to NPs nor the quality of care provided by NPs. However, I do find evidence that NPs practice more autonomously following scope of practice policy changes. Given the lower reimbursement that NPs typically receive, these findings suggest …