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Showing 1 to 20 of 167 for “"Patient health"”.
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Pharmacist monitoring of patient health in the community
… in order to make significant improvements in the health of the people and has placed an emphasis on shifting care to the primary sening. This research has explored the potential role of the community pharmacist in health promotion in the pharmacy, and at general medical practices. The feasibility …
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Identifying meaningful patient health outcomes among the athletic population
1 PDf file (ix, 147 pages)
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Blockchain Framework for Secured On-Demand Patient Health Records Sharing
<p>As the healthcare industry continues to digitize and share patient data for a better understanding of patient health history, cybersecurity must remain a top priority. However, patient health record (PHR) data is extremely sensitive and faces significant challenges due to its distributed nature …
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Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ–9) in an African context
… study forms part of the project of Psychosocial Health and Biomarkers in an African context (FORT3, Wissing, 2008). The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is a nine-item depression scale that has the potential of being a dual-purpose instrument to establish the diagnosis of a depressive …
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The Relationally-Centered Integrated Behavioral Health Model: Exploring Holistic Patient Health Outcomes
… (BPS) framework to provide holistic care to patients by organizing collaborative teams of biomedical and psychosocial health services. Due to the diversity of patient needs, many IPC models have been created with varying methods of organizational structure and foci. This dissertation explores …
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MODELS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR ELECTIVE SURGERY SCHEDULING UNDER UNCERTAINTY CONSIDERING PATIENT HEALTH CONDITION
The managerial aspects to run a healthcare system are becoming increasingly important for patient safety. More than one patients are competing each other to be treated using limited medical resources in a healthcare system. The limited medical resources include surgeons, physicians, …
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Applying Language Models To Patient Health Records: Acronym Expansion, Long Document Classification and Explainable Predictions
The health industry is experiencing a digital transformation, with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) becoming central repositories for an ever-growing volume of patient data. While EHR clinical notes offer rich, detailed insights into patient conditions, treatments and outcomes, extracting …
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Factors Which Affect Post-Hospital Resource Use and Patient Health Outcomes Among Taiwanese Older Adults
… relationships among population characteristics, patient post-hospital resource use and patient health outcomes in terms of the Andersen health behavioral model. An additional purpose of this study was to examine a discharge planning screening instrument used in a large urban hospital in Taiwan to …
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Using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to Examine Adult Uninsured Patient Health Services Use at a Community Health Center
… the condition and increased risk of additional health problems. Health care expenditures in the United States were reportedly 1.7 trillion in 2003 (Smithetal.,2005) and exceeded" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; line-height: 0; font-size: 16.66px; …
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College integrated care: Effectiveness of the use of a modified version of the patient health questionnaire for patients in a university health clinic
… need for this model at a Midwest university health center, by investigating how two behavioral questionnaires influenced providers’ prescription of psychotropic medications and referrals for behavioral intervention. After random assignment to condition, 109 participants in the experimental …
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Computer-Administered Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) and Psychiatric Screening in Outpatient Pain Patients: Effect of a Point-of-Care Biopsychosocial Patient Health Report on Treatment Outcomes
RATIONALE: Chronic pain is a widespread health problem that carries steep costs for both individuals and society. Pain-related complaints represent one of the most common presenting symptoms across ambulatory care settings. Individuals with chronic pain often have comorbid psychiatric symptoms …
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An Early Warning System For Risk Management
isk management in healthcare has solved a wide range of healthcare-related issues in Saudi Arabia. However, the limitation of risk management teams working under special conditions (needing to solve critical health-related issues) has highlighted the urgent need for an early risk warning system …
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The Role of Community Paramedicine Programming in Providing Lift Assists in Southwestern Ontario
… assist call type, impacting paramedic services, patient health outcomes, and primary care providers. This qualitative focused ethnography study utilized semi-structured interviews with community paramedics (CPs) to describe the role of CPs in providing lift assists in Southwestern Ontario. …
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EMS to Trauma Care Transitions: An Investigation of Patient and Handoff Outcomes
… medical service transportation of trauma patients has a long history of effective use-cases dating back to its inception during the Vietnam war. Compared to ground-based emergency medical transit, helicopters have been able to reach severely injured patients in environments with …
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The Heart of the Matter: The Function and Relational Effects of Humor for Cardiovascular Patients
… examined the possibility that cardiovascular patient health is enhanced by the intentional communication of humor and associated increases in relationship satisfaction. In an effort to study the relationship between these variables it was predicted that relationship satisfaction mediates the …
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The Heart of the Matter: The Function and Relational Effects of Humor for Cardiovascular Patients
… examined the possibility that cardiovascular patient health is enhanced by the intentional communication of humor and associated increases in relationship satisfaction. In an effort to study the relationship between these variables it was predicted that relationship satisfaction mediates the …
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Nurse Practitioners and Physicians: A comparison of perceived Health Care outcomes and perceived satisfaction with care
A comparison of patient health care outcomes and satisfaction of care by nurse practitioners and physicians in a managed care setting was the purpose of this study. The study's conceptual framework joined the Shuler and Davis (1993) nurse practitioner practice model with Donabiden's (1966) theory …
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Robust foundation model for healthcare
Clinical data are routinely collected during patient visits, encompassing demographics, diagnoses, laboratory test results, medication prescriptions, medical images, and clinical notes. While there is growing interest in applying deep learning techniques to clinical predictive modeling, developing …
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Pooling and segmentation to improve primary care prescription management
… accuracy, reduce resource utilization, improve patient medicine compliance and, ultimately, patient health outcomes.
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Evaluation of a Prescription Drug Pay-for-Performance Program: Impact on Prescribing Trends, Budget, and Patient Outcomes
Background Health plans have incentivized providers for patient care that follows evidence-based prescribing, including through pay-for-performance (P4P) programs. Research has suggested increased cost-sharing for prescription drugs is associated with lower adherence and higher utilization of other …
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