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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Medical support"”.
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The power of collective endorsements: Promoting credibility, belonging, and participation in medical support communities
Medical costs are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Recently, crowdfunding sites such as GoFundMe have helped reduce medical bankruptcies across the United States by allowing people to easily create a personal campaign webpage and raise funds from a large number of people on the …
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The evolution of the Fleet Hospital Program: from the Cold War era to the Naval Expeditionary Medical Support System
The global security environment has changed significantly since the original concept of fleet hospitals was developed. This thesis examines the process used to plan and budget for fleet hospitals, and examines the events that shaped the configuration and billet structure of fleet hospitals. …
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A survey to determine the recovery strategies that medical support staff of rugby teams use to improve recovery of the players
… to facilitate the recovery of th eplayers, the support staff associated with teams have used a variety of techniques with the goal of ensuring that the muscles of players have the best opportunity to repair before the next training session/match. Several different strategies are used by support …
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Development of a Procedure Reference Model for the Alignment of Non‐medical Support Service Applications in Hospitals – A Framework for Ensuring the Correct Reporting and Configuration of Key Performance Indicators
… Reference Model for the Alignment of Non-medical Support Service Applications in Hospitals” comprising six component models, the metamodel, two input documents and a documentation for application as integral parts. The development of the model was done based on a pragmatic philosophical …
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Folding Wall
… situation that includes incremental levels of medical support, often in spaces that are modeled after hospitals. The core of this thesis is grounded in the believe that an architectural familiarity of space should be retained, whereas the overall architecture should be able to silently absorb …
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Managing health services support to military operations
… on the subject of managing health services support to military operations. It is based upon my prior published work supported by an ‘action research’ analysis of the application of this prior knowledge to my experiences from spending a year in the South of Afghanistan from October 2009 to …
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Bio-mimicry of a Leopard Tortoise’ Shoulder Girdle in Space Frame Design of an Ambulance Body
… for affordable, functional and safe emergency medical support service vehicles in rural Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is inferred that the road conditions have an influence on the availability, durability and affordability of motorized and non-motorized vehicles in rural areas. Also, it is …
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The incidence of injury and exposure times of footballers playing in a professional football club in the PS
… CT) was monitored throughout the season by the medical support staff of the team using the F-MARC data collection system devised by FIFA. The main objective of this study was to undertake a retrospective epidemiological study documenting the incidence of injury in this team and the exposure time …
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The impact of patient-clinician interactions on patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases
… necessitating a life-long need for regular medical support. The overall objective of this PhD was therefore to investigate the impacts of positive and negative medical interactions on patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and related diseases, in order to identify potential …
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Partnerships for Change: A Collaboration for Global Wellbeing
… in Johnsonville, Liberia due to inadequate medical support for individuals living in the community. There are several steps in building a community clinic such as creating a community needs assessment, budgets, finding funders, writing grants, etc. I assisted in all of these initial steps in …
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Orthodox Jewish women’s lived experience of pregnancy following a previous miscarriage
… time. Factors such as strength of relationships, medical support, meaning making, and physical wellbeing contribute to recovery time. Many women choose to attempt a subsequent pregnancy as part of their healing. Purpose: This study aims to explore the lived experience of pregnancy …
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Evaluation of a user information satisfaction short-form instrument
… into three functional user groups: Physicians, Medical Support and Administrative Support. All three groups were satisfied with the local Management Information Department staff and services and the system's output, All three groups were dissatisfied with the contractor services. Physicians were …
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Development and evaluation of novel antimicrobial solutions against biofilms and planktonic microbial growth
… the heart, where they provide a direct route for medical support into the bloodstream. However, when CVCs become colonized by microorganisms, this direct route into the bloodstream can often result in catheter related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs). These infections can be enormously costly,i …
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Incidence of injuries and associated factors at the senior inter provincial field hockey tournament
… acquired sport injuries defined by time loss and medical attention; • the associative factors related to injury (i.e. coaching qualifications, presence of medical staff, and other non-modifiable risk factors); and • the injury incidence, injury burden and distribution of anatomical injuries …
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Organisational responses to students' mental health needs : social, psychological and medical perspectives
This research examines the support offered to students with mental and emotional problems in Oxford, based on a theoretical model which distinguishes between social, psychological and medical/biological approaches. Although there has been a long-running debate about the contribution of each of …
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An evaluation of emergency field side care following implementation of the BokSmart program for rugby in South Africa
… the proportion of incidents where first on-field medical support were registered medical care professionals. Injured players were also more likely to receive care that adhered to the BokSmart guidelines post-implementation; however, this ultimately made no difference in the outcome of acute spinal …
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Disability, social work and social exclusion : new strategies for achieving social inclusion of people with physical disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… The study identified ten themes: the nature of medical support; financial assistance; mobility; (5) religion and disability; gender and disability; quality of life; perceptions and problems; social support services and social workers; and Saudi law and policy implementation. CONCLUSION: The …
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“There’s a long way to go.” Educational psychologists’ perceptions of their role in supporting schools to improve outcomes for trans* students.
… the number of children and young people seeking medical support for struggles associated with gender identity has increased significantly over the last 5 years (The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, 2018). Trans* students are reportedly more likely to be victimised in school environments and more …
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Injury and illness risk factors for elite athletes in training environment
… of 335 top level athletes and a total of 88 medical care providers from Germany and Taiwan participated in tow “cross-sectional plus longitudinal” Risk-IQ and MCPQ surveys respectively. Four categories of injury/illness related risk factors questions were asked in Risk-IQ for athletes while …
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Counselling Psychology of Infertility
… I observed that whilst there was a wealth of medical support available, psychological and emotional support was somewhat lacking. This led me to reflect on the counselling psychology of infertility. After conducting a review of the infertility literature it became apparent that research …
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