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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Patient interactions."”.
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Identity construction in nurse practitioner-patient interactions
This dissertation explores interactions between Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and patients during both inpatient and outpatient visits. Through an analysis of interactional data coupled with ethnographic observations and interviews, I focus on the ways that both patients and providers construct …
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Physician and patient interactions : the role of beliefs and values in directing clinical conversations.
… the content of their conversations with patients. After an introductory chapter, chapter two primarily provides an overview of the data and the religious beliefs and practices of physicians in the United States. Physicians in the United States tend to be more spiritual and less religious, …
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Designing Smart Agents to Support Physician-Patient Interactions: The Effect of Varying Communication Styles
… of AI-based smart agents to support physician-patient interactions. In each experiment, a sample of female participants evaluates video tapes of simulated physician-patient interactions in a setting involving early stage breast cancer diagnosis. Experiment 1 manipulates communication style …
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Exploring machine learning techniques using patient interactions in online health forums to classify drug safety
… believed that this is the first exploration of patient derived data of this type for pharmacovigilance – the study of drugs once released to market for safety. It is believed that this is the first application of machine learning and natural language processing techniques to be used for …
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Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice.
… bidirectional contextual manner for doctors and patients each time they come together to get the task of healthcare done. This is a study of talk-in-interaction, specifically, Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA). MCA refers to the range of practices a speech community deploys to accomplish …
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Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice
… bidirectional contextual manner for doctors and patients each time they come together to get the task of healthcare done. This is a study of talk-in-interaction, specifically, Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA). MCA refers to the range of practices a speech community deploys to accomplish …
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An exploration of nurse-patient interactions in acute hospital settings when electronic patient record (EPR) systems are used
Background: The introduction of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems is changing contemporary nursing practice at a rapid rate. EPR systems use an anticipatory approach to address patient needs via digital prompts, that promote patient safety and assure fundamental care needs are met. It is …
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Association between Performance of Patient-Centered Clinical Activities and Employee Engagement in Hospital Pharmacists
… the frequency in which a pharmacist performs patient-centered activities on employee engagement and perception of safety in frontline hospital pharmacists. METHODS: This multi-hospital, cross-sectional study was conducted utilizing a 30-item questionnaire that was emailed to hospital …
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Facing Defacement: Factors influencing indigenous patients in provider-patient communication in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala
… was to explain the factors influencing Achi patients in provider-patient interactions in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. I explored the complex intercultural challenges influencing the interactions between biomedically-trained providers and indigenous patients. Data collection involved participant …
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Bilingual Health Communication and Medical Interpreters: Managing Role Performances and Communicative Goals
… that accounts for individuals' (e.g., providers, patients, and interpreters) communicative behaviors in provider-patient interactions. This study includes data collected through participant observation of interpreter-mediated provider-patient interactions and individual/dyadic in-depth interviews …
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"It’s your job, you can handle it" : a grounded theory study of ward staffs' views on the experiences, causes and consequences of verbal aggression in an acute psychiatric ward
… which negatively influenced the staff-patient interactions, thereby perpetuating further verbally aggressive behaviour from patients. Conclusions: The themes observed in the study have conceptualised verbal aggression as more than a negative interaction on an individual level, …
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Evaluation of a Novel Medical Perspective-Taking Intervention
… on consequential outcomes like trust in patient testimonies and treatment quality. Across two studies, there was no effect of the intervention condition on trust in patient symptom testimony or treatment quality, nor were there any interactions with patient gender. Examination of the …
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PREDICTION OF RESPIRATORY MOTION
… respiratory motion with clustering from multiple patient interactions. For the customized prediction we construct the clustering based on breathing patterns of multiple patients using the feature selection metrics that are composed of a variety of breathing features. In the fourth part of our work …
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Assessing interpersonal communication in Dental Hygiene students providing geriatric care
… difference between how faculty assess students, patients assess students, and students assess themselves.</p> <p>Methods: Dental hygiene students from the University of South Dakota participated in the educational module and completed pre and post tests. Voice recordings from student-patient …
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Quantifying Parkinson's Disease Symptoms Using Mobile Devices
… sets of data obtained from occasional doctor-patient interactions. There is a clinical need to improve the techniques used for mitigating common Parkinson’s Disease symptoms. Available data sets for researching the disease are minimal, hindering advancement toward understanding the underlying …
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Critical Dialogues and Reflections
… are reduced to “specialists without spirits.” Patients are objectified and dehumanized. “Critical dialogue and reflections” is an attempt to call out the inadequacies of our current framework of thinking about medicine and medical education, written by someone who is a patient, a doctor, an …
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Searching for the 'Good' in Physiotherapist Practice: Toward an Ethic of Care
… professional practices, competency profiles, and patient interactions. The research purpose was to examine perceptions of what constitutes a ‘good’ physiotherapist. This dissertation includes four integrated manuscripts. The first is an integrative review to critically examine how physiotherapists …
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The Impact of Perceived Communication Apprehension on Communication Effectiveness and Person-Centered Care Among Prelicensure Nursing Students
… perception of person-centered care and the patient’s report of the student’s communication effectiveness, after controlling for the student’s communication apprehension? and (c) what is the association between the student’s perception of person-centered care and the observer rating of the …
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A Systems Analysis Approach to Colorectal Cancer Screening Access In the Northwest Territories
… cancer screening access was defined by patient health care interactions supported by foundational information processes. Eighteen models of colorectal cancer screening access within the territory were identified, with varying complexity in care access seen across communities. Screening …
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