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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Patient access"”.
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Patient Access to Medical Information: A Multi-Perspecitive Study
… U.S health care policy emphasizes increased patient access to medical information to empower patients and improve quality of care. However, little is known about what access should consist of, how these systems will impact patients and physicians, and whether their use leads to better …
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Improving Patient Access and Comprehension of Clinical Notes: Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Readability and Understanding
Patient access to clinical notes has demonstrated numerous benefits, including an increased sense of control over their condition, enhanced engagement, improved medication adherence, and greater clinician accountability. However, the presence of medical jargon, abbreviations, and complex medical …
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The Impacts of Health Care Reconfiguration on Patient Access to Services: A Case Study of Nenagh General Hospital
Access to health care is becoming a popular area of research in health geography especially in relation to service provision and policy planning. Since 2006, many changes to health policy have been made by the Irish government which have been both supported and opposed at a local level. The …
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Financing medicine's last mile in Uganda : exploring linkages between patient access to medicine and supply chain access to finance
… the United Nations' ongoing efforts to improve access to medicine in Africa. This thesis explores how access to finance for businesses in the Ugandan private pharmaceutical supply chain affects access to medicine for end patients. Specifically, we consider three components of access to …
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Improving outpatient non-oncology infusion through centralization and scheduling heuristics
… as they have led to dramatic improvements in patients' quality-of- life. At Massachusetts General Hospital, these drugs are administered in ten independent outpatient clinics. While some clinics only need to offer sporadic treatments and have low utilization of resources, other clinics find …
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How will the use of high fidelity simulation in a North American paramedic curriculum contribute to high quality teaching and learning?
… build self-confidence and ultimately increase patient safety. They also believe HFS must closely match the conditions in which students learn and work. These factors are encompassed in the theory of operational realities of the paramedic practice environment (ORPPE), which includes, safety, …
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Promotion of Advance Care Planning for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
… in the United States experience disparities in access to advance care planning and may have significant unmet healthcare needs at the end of life, including unrelieved suffering. People who are homeless have increased morbidity and mortality risks, yet lack opportunities to discuss end-of-life …
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Testing for Subtle Cognitive Impairments in aClinically Informed iPad Platform
… expertise, making it challenging to reach many patients and limiting data availability. This thesis explores an innovative solution - an advanced, unified iPad platform designed to administer tests in a way that embodies some of the skills of a practiced clinician. The platform provides faster …
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Reducing Patient No-Show Rates in Diabetes Clinic
BACKGROUND: Patients missing scheduled appointments, or no-shows, is a pervasive issue across outpatient clinics. The estimated no-show rate among primary care clinics is estimated to be between 14% and 50% (Daggy, Lawley et al. 2010). In addition, no-shows are estimated to cost the US healthcare …
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Improving Access to Care through Web Based Appointment
… on the college health population, as it improve patient access and develop a change in practice within the health center setting that delivers a safe, effective, efficient, and timely patient care. The project focuses on the CNL curriculum of Informatics and Healthcare Technology, under the role …
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Practice Patterns and Influential Factors of Nurse Practitioners Managing Chronic Pain
… and non-opioid prescribing patterns and the patient, provider, and system-level factors that influence those patterns.This dissertation includes a scoping review in Chapter 2 that demonstrates the negative impact of NP regulatory restrictions on patient access to chronic pain care, as well as …
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Triage Training: Improving Access to Care
… units. In this project, the aim is to increase patient access to care by decreasing both wait times for patients and the LWBS rate for the unit, which approaches 6%. As part of a military hospital, the unit provides for veterans, active duty service members, and their families, with ages ranging …
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Understanding and managing profitability in a competitive environment : an application in biotechnology
… Competition necessitates contracting to ensure patient access to the product but this results in price erosion. An increase in discounting and subsequent price erosion in recent years has prompted a need to better understand account level profitability. Given a highly dynamic and complex payer …
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Preclinical evaluation of a vaccine against IL-17 mediated inflammatory diseases including psoriasis
… monoclonal antibodies in psoriasis treatment, patient access to these new first line therapies is restricted for financial reasons. Replacing passive immunisation by therapeutic vaccination targeting IL-17A has the potential to overcome this serious impediment and address this currently unmet …
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Authorizations, Prices, and Labeling Differences of Therapeutic Biologics Marketed in the United States and Saudi Arabia
… burdens healthcare systems and delays patient access to these treatments. Sometimes a company selling the same medications in various countries will have conflicting information on drug labels.</p> <p>OBJECTIVES: This study compared the characteristics of therapeutic biologics …
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Photonic crystal enhanced light emitters and their use in improving cancer screening and disease progression monitoring
… of both cancer types and treatments. Each patient's response to treatments and cancers is unique, calling for a personalized approach to healthcare. Early detection and correct treatment of cancer are critical for controlling disease progression and improving patient outcomes. This …
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Supply-side determinants of cataract surgery output in South Africa
… (28%), limited theatre time (25%), patient access issues (24%), and inconsistent consumable supplies (22%), especially in the public sector. Having adequate theatre staff (56%), dedicated eye theatres (49%), equipment (43%), and motivated staff (41%) were the main enablers …
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Telemedicine Quality Improvement Study
… Success is measured in direct benefit to the patient in terms of quality of care and cost, and to the provider in terms of increased work flexibility and minimal technological difficulties. Mixed reality devices may further contribute to the telemedicine platform that is proven to increase …
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Exploring the Impact of Virtual Medicine on the Patient-Centered Medical Home
The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a health care delivery model where a patient has an ongoing relationship with a personal physician who provides comprehensive and appropriate health care. Enhanced health care accessibility is one of the desired characteristics in a PCMH, which supports …
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Unlocking precision medicine using DNA nanotechnology
… the transition to ‘precision medicine’, where patients are provided with personalized treatments selected for maximum efficacy against their unique biomarker profile. However, precision medicine can only be achieved if the methods for detecting and quantifying biomarkers are inexpensive and …
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