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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Medical Provider"”.
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Patient Perspectives on Barriers to Hepatitis C Treatment: Qualitative Analysis of Patient Focus Groups
… from either the perspective of either the medical provider or healthcare system. To better understand these barriers from the patients' perspectives, exploratory focus groups were conducted with both mono-infected HCV and coinfected HCV/HIV patients. Nine focus groups with a total of 48 …
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Parental perspectives of dialysis initiation for children with kidney disease: a qualitative study
… innate parental role and foster their evolving medical provider role through reassurance that their child could survive, communication with the medical team, and engaging in care plan development; and 3) Leveraging dual identities – to positively impact their child’s experience and enable …
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Addressing Health Disparities in Refugees
… coming to the United States had a place to seek medical care, advice, and preventative services. In order to improve access to health care for refugees, I assisted clients in choosing a medical provider, and accompanied clients to health screenings and follow up appointments with providers. I was …
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Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Controversies
… other variables including being counseled by a medical provider about tubal ligation, does increase the likelihood that a woman will have a tubal ligation.
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A 10-year post-analysis of the Maya Health Toolkit for Medical Providers
… wellbeing. In 2010, a Maya Health Toolkit for Medical Providers to help the Maya living in the U.S. better navigate the healthcare system was developed. The primary purpose of this thesis project is to reexamine our Maya Health Toolkit for Medical Providers to determine what changes and updates …
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NOVEL DATA MINING ALGORITHMS FOR ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
Medical health providers use electronic health records (EHRs) to store information about patient treatment to support patient care management and securely share health information among healthcare organizations. EHRs have also been used in healthcare research in problems such as patient …
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Consider the Source : The Effects of Adult Sources of Human Immunodefciency [sic] Virus and Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Information on Teen Risk Behaviors for Sexually Transmitted Infection
… for the United States, and parents, schools, and medical providers, among others, are expected to have the greatest impact on adolescent STI risk reduction in teens.</p> <p>This study used secondary Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBS) data to explore the prevalence of high school …
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The Relationship Between Religiosity and Tobacco Use in a Mexican Spanish Speaking Sample in the United States
… Mexican Spanish, have had an interaction with a medical provider in the last six months, and have used tobacco daily at some point in the last six months. Along with demographic information, participants answered questions regarding their faith identity characteristics, completed the Religious …
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Waiting Room Rounding to Decrease LWBS
… department without being seen (LWBS) by a medical provider have been identified as a safety and liability risk as well as a profit loss. One high volume urban teaching emergency department (ED) in southern California has struggled with a percentage of LWBS well over the benchmark.</p> …
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The ARV Treatment Adherence Model: A Qualitative Study on Antiretroviral (ARV) Treatment Adherence for People Living with HIV
… nonjudgmental and destigmatizing quality medical care administered by culturally competent medical providers. 2) <em>Trust</em> in medical provider, the medical system, and medication. 3) <em>Self-efficacy</em> to accept the chronic medical condition and need to take medication to control …
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Effects of Parental Notification and Consent Laws on Teenage Births and Abortions in Texas
… In January 2000, Texas enacted a law requiring a medical provider to notify the parents of a minor female seeking an abortion, before performing the abortion. In 2005, the law changed, requiring notarized parental consent in addition to notification for an unemancipated minor to receive an …
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"Doctor-Prescribed and Mother-Encouraged": Interpersonal Interactions and Body Image Concerns in Higher-Weight Clients with Eating Disorders
… interactions (between family members, peers, and medical providers) on participants’ experiences of body image concerns and disordered eating for higher weight women with restrictive EDs. This analysis describes participant-perceived impacts of interpersonal relationships on body image and their …
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Medical and Parental Predictors of Self-Efficacy in Pediatric Chronic Illness
… a child with a CI aged 8-17, being seen by a medical provider within the Loma Linda University Health System. Parent participants provided demographic information, while youth participants completed a depression self-report measure and the Pediatric Rating of Chronic Illness Self-Efficacy …
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Exploring the role of medical social work: Findings from a pilot project in a national health center in Cambodia
… is available to describe the practice of medical social work in resource-constrained countries and what is available often provides descriptive accounts of practice rather than explicitly named or systematically identified roles. There was no model for medical social work in Cambodia prior …
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The development and psychometric testing of the shared decision-making instrument
… series. Previous research has focused on the medical provider and parents influence on HPV vaccine receipt and have excluded the school nurse who regularly manages the healthcare of females between 11 and 12 years of age. To fill this gap in knowledge, the aim of this research was to develop a …
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Clinical Test Versus Self-Test for Prediabetes: Outcomes in Diabetes Prevention Based on Mode of Diagnosis
… but only 15.3% have been diagnosed by a medical provider. Approximately 15-30% of the population with prediabetes will develop diabetes within 5 years without lifestyle modification to decrease risk. Reduced incidence of diabetes is an urgent priority for Healthy People 2030 and increased …
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The Meaning and Cultural Context of Physical Activity as Perceived by Physically Active, Rural African American Women
… that they need to address these risks from their medical provider.
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The Role of Education in the Treatment of Chronic Pain Patients: A Quantitative Study of Factors that Influence the Self -Management of Chronic Pain
… family resources, and the costs to society for medical care, lost wages, welfare and disability benefits demand increasingly more resources each year. At the micro level, patients who live the daily rigors of chronic pain want medical science to solve their malady. At the macro level, health …
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The Effect of Public Policy on Health Service Providers
… I use Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data to analyze hospital ratings around the fifteen percent disproportionate patient percentage cutoff and find that on average, hospital ratings increase by six percentage points. When a subsample of non-profit hospitals is …
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Improving Health Care by Listening to the Voices of Women who Partner with Women
The American Medical Association's ethics code (2012) highlights trust, established through mutual respect, as the basis of patient-provider relationships. A lack of trust and respect between providers and non-heterosexual patients is suggested throughout healthcare literature. The study utilized a …
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