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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Patient empowerment"”.
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Impact of Genetic Counseling on Patient Empowerment After Diagnosis of Fetal Anomaly
… counseling and resources. Regardless of a patient’s testing decision, genetic counseling should include psychosocial counseling to support and empower patients in a time of prognostic uncertainty and psychological burden. Genetic counselors are often utilized in MFM practice, however the …
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Organizational, Nurse, and Patient Empowerment at a Magnet and Non-Magnet Hospital
… relationships between organizational, nurse, and patient empowerment at a Magnet designated hospital versus a non-Magnet designated hospital. There are three aims to the study. Aim 1 examines the relationship between level of organizational empowerment and individual nurse self-empowerment …
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Patient empowerment by interactive cancer pain management. Bridging the gap between patient and caregiver
Contains fulltext : 145299.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Impact of Patient Empowerment on HIV Medication Adherence among a Nationally-Representative Sample of HIV-Infected Veterans
… Previous studies suggest that patients who take an active role in their medical decision-making have greater medication adherence and better health outcomes. Little research has been conducted on patient empowerment and medication adherence among HIV-infected patients. The aims …
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Wellness Information Network (WIN): A Patient Empowerment Mobile Application for Improved Health Literacy and Disease Management for Type-2 Diabetes
… study aims to build and evaluate a strategic patient empowerment artifact called Wellness Information Network (WIN). WIN focuses on disseminating health literature to users, improving self-care management, motivating users to make healthier dietary choices, and increase diabetes numeracy …
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Factors that influence patient empowerment in inpatient chronic care: Early implementation experience with a diabetes care intervention in South Africa
… that emphasise self-management and empowering patients to care actively for their disease are integral in non-communicable disease treatment as patients live with their disease well beyond contact with health services. Adherence and health-seeking behaviour literature suggest multiple factors …
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Helping Those Who Help Themselves: a Critical Discourse Analysis Of CNN's 'Indepth: Empowered Patient'
… advice, tips and education. In order for a patient to gain more autonomy in the patient – physician relationship, we assume they need more knowledge because they have traditionally relied on the physician for health related information. As such, we need to understand the patient –physician …
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Expert patient education versus routine treatment : X-PERT
… to evaluate a different approach to diabetes patient education. It begins with an overview of the epidemiology of Type 2 diabetes in recognition that although there have been major developments over the years in identifying and treating diabetes, people with diabetes are still dying …
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An inquiry into the emergence of health care law in England and Wales as a distinct body of law : what lessons can be drawn from this in relation to Ghana?
… law (HCL) can potentially offer more benefits to patients by providing protection for their rights and improving healthcare delivery as a result of making healthcare professionals and workers more aware of their legal duties towards patients than is the case where a field of HCL is absent. The …
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Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Patient Portal Use in the Mental Health Context
Patient portals facilitate patients' access to their electronic health care records, and may also include features such as patient-clinician messaging, prescription renewal, and educational resources. There is evidence that portals support patient empowerment, therapeutic communication, adherence …
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Psychiatric genetic counselling: current landscape and opinions of psychiatric healthcare professionals in public hospitals in Cape Town, South Africa
… are not implemented routinely despite reported patient benefits of increased patient empowerment and self-efficacy. This study serves as a pilot project to investigate current practices of mental illness counselling services, focusing on aetiology, provided by psychiatric healthcare …
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Psychiatric genetic counselling: current landscape and opinions of psychiatric healthcare professionals in public hospitals in Cape Town, South Africa
… are not implemented routinely despite reported patient benefits of increased patient empowerment and self-efficacy. This study serves as a pilot project to investigate current practices of mental illness counselling services, focusing on aetiology, provided by psychiatric healthcare …
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The role of nurse navigators indiagnostic phase of adult patients with lung cancer
… is a clinical process that involves mapping the patient journey, identifying and prioritizing the symptoms, and corresponding the symptoms with relevant treatment. Oncology nurse navigators are professional nurses who educate and advocate for, and navigate the cancer patient throughout his/her …
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The participation of stroke survivors in service development and research: an ethnographic study
Policy to involve patients and the public in health service development and medical research has been widely promoted in the United Kingdom on the grounds that this will improve the quality of services and research.<br/><br/>This thesis investigates how stroke survivors were involved in two …
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In Our Blood: Mapping Narrative Enactments of Leukaemia Online
… is the informed, connected and empowered ‘e-patient’. These digital actors mobilize a wealth of information from translations of the complex evolving science pushing the boundaries of biomedical understanding and treatment, to sharing the daily effects of living with a cancer whose sufferers …
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The onset and alleviation of learned helplessness in older hospitalised people
… to LH effects within the mealtime event akin to patient dependence. These effects were alleviated in the second stage through exposing patients to empowering circumstances consistent with the development of LM. The exploratory phase involved developing a valid and reliable measure of empowerment …
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Emotions, Intuitions and Risk Perception in Critical Care
… rational decision maker does not exist. Instead, patients are rational within personal or environmental constraints such as uncertainty or ambiguity in which non-rational approaches such as emotion and intuition are instrumental. This issue is particularly important in critical care. To ensure …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Trust Signals in the eHealth Sector: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach
The Internet gives patients the opportunity to be better informed, have ownership over their data, and, therefore, be empowered in the medical decision-making process. All of these new forms of patient empowerment through eHealth, however, require the patients’ trust in online service. Existing …
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An exploration of clinical teaching and learning within a preceptorship model in an acute care hospital in the Republic of Ireland
… a work ethic. Other professional values such as patient empowerment and critical thinking were not a primary concern. A best practice clinical teaching and learning model is offered based on the evidence of this study; recommendations as to its further modification and development are discussed. …
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Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management
… the capabilities and responsibilities of both patients and providers. Influenced by health IT, concepts like patient-centered care, meaningful use, and patient empowerment are commonplace in the healthcare system. As the popularity of personal health records increases, medical providers, …
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