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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Mental health patient"”.
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Implementing Mental Health Screening Assessment and Navigation (MH-SCAN) in a Community Oncology Clinic: Evaluations and Efficacy
Significant portions of cancer patients are attempting to manage the stressors of survivorship with undiagnosed depression. Untreated depression increases mortality rates, deteriorates patients' quality of life, and disrupts adherence to cancer treatment. Despite widespread recommendations, there …
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Evaluating Integrated Care in Primary Care Clinics in Rural and Frontier Colorado by Uncovering Barriers to Behavioral Health Referrals: A Mixed Methods Investigation
Healthcare reform is happening nationally at a rapid pace. A part of this rapid reform is the implementation of integrated care delivery systems. This mixed-methods study identified those clinical and practice barriers that affect referrals from primary care to behavioral health services. A …
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Can the value and acceptability of a patient feedback tool for revalidating psychiatrists be improved for both patients and psychiatrists through its co-production? An action research approach.
… is often suggested as an alternative approach to patient feedback design. However, critical exploration of how co-production may affect the perceived value and acceptability of a patient feedback tool is severely limited, particularly in the context of revalidation for practising psychiatrists. …
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An exploration into how forensic mental health service-users experience work
… study was to understand the lived experience of mental health service-users based in secure mental health hospitals who were involved in paid or voluntary work. A review of the existing literature discovered that there was a lack of evidence about this group of service-users compared to those …
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Building on a culture of patient and family centred care in the mental health setting
Providence Health Care (PHC) is a faith-based care provider that operates sixteen facilities in Vancouver, Canada. PHC is beginning the journey towards patient and family centred care at all of its sites and programs. This inquiry engaged patients, families, staff, physicians and leaders to explore …
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THE EFFECT OF THE COMMONGROUND SOFTWARE AND THE DECISION SUPPORT CENTER ON PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT-CENTERED COMMUNICATION
… and the Decision Support Center on psychiatric patient-centered communication. University of Kansas, Ph.D., January 2009. Words=148 Located in a community mental health center, the first Decision Support Center in psychiatry used peer support and an internet-based software program, CommonGround, …
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PATIENT LENGTH OF STAY: PREDICTIVE VARIABILITY AMONG FORENSIC AND CIVIL PSYCHIATRIC UNITS AND POPULATIONS
Patient length of stay (LOS) in psychiatric inpatient services has become one of the most popular but least understood measures of treatment efficiency and total cost of care. The initiative to decrease LOS in an effort to reduce total treatment costs will ultimately be more costly, unless LOS …
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Mental Health Navigation for Depression in a Community Cancer Clinic: Predictors of Navigation Engagement and Response
… implemented universal depression screening plus mental health navigation (i.e., brief mental health assessment and treatment recommendations via phone with ongoing, periodic calls for symptom monitoring and recommendations). This project evaluated a set of a priori defined sociodemographic, …
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Mental health support in general care settings: An exploratory study into factors that influence nurses in meeting patient’s needs
… estimated that thirty to sixty five percent of patients within general care settings have specific mental health needs that do not always get addressed. These may be related to minor mental health problems, pre-existing mental disorder or illnesses that may develop during the course of inpatient …