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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Patient perspective"”.
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Compassionate Care, the Patient Perspective
… remains virtually uncharted from the lens of the patient. Through interpretive existential-phenomenological inquiry, the researcher endeavored to portray the attributes of compassionate care listening to the voice of the patient. In a hospital outpatient infusion clinic, 26 participants elaborated …
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Outcome measurement in articular cartilage repair: exploring the patient perspective
… an original and significant contribution to the patients' perspective of outcome measurement after articular cartilage repair (ACR) of the knee. The work represents the evolution and development of the author's coherent research programme in this field over a period of 8 years. In 2003 the author …
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An investigation of the symptom burden of paediatric cardiology outpatients in Blantyre, Malawi: The patient perspective
… in general and looking particularly from the patients' perspective. Social, spiritual and psychological symptom burden and challenges are rarely examined in literature. This study was designed to explore the symptom burden of children with cardiac disease by engaging the children in a …
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Leveraging Technologies to Make Patients as Partners in Their Healthcare
<p>Incidents that jeopardize patient safety and costs that are associated with managing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to drain resources in the healthcare industry. Although recent initiatives emerged to make patients as partners in healthcare through technology and ultimately control …
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The Lived Experience of Recovery Following Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) for Head and Neck Cancer
… robotic surgery (TORS), has enabled select patients with head and neck cancer to receive treatment that results in less disfigurement and dysfunction compared with traditional approaches. While TORS research has focused mainly on functional surgical outcomes, a need exists to understand …
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Non-Urgent Emergency Department Use: Exploring the Perceptions, Emotions, and Behaviours of Emergency Healthcare Providers
… research explored non-urgent ED use from the patient perspective, less is known about how HCPs experience and respond to such encounters. This thesis examines ED HCPs’ perceptions, emotional responses, and behaviours related to non-urgent ED use. A narrative review identified three themes: (1) …
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Emergency Department use: Why do patients choose the Emergency Department for medical care and how much does it really cost?
… manner. Objectives: To examine the reasons patients present to the ED, and to conduct a cost analysis to compare the costs of seeking care in the ED versus a primary care setting. Methodology: We surveyed patients (n=606) triaged to the cubicles of the ED of The Ottawa Hospital, Civic …
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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
… surveys explored the referral from the patient perspective and qualitative interviews were conducted with physical health providers. These combined results addressed the central question of what barriers exist in the referral process from primary care to behavioral health services. …
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Using multi-criteria decision analysis to assess private sector agents' preferences and priorities in stocking malaria rapid diagnostic test kits in Uganda
… and drug shops, which is where the majority of patients first seek care, diagnosis of malaria is often presumptive and patients receive neither RDT nor microscopy. Several studies have focused on the patient perspective (e.g. willingness to pay and willingness to be tested) but much less is …
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An exploration into young patients’ (≤ 50 years) expectations following primary total hip arthroplasty; An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study.
Title: YOUNG HIP: An exploration into young patients’ (<50 years) expectations following primary total hip arthroplasty: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study. Introduction. Total hip replacements (THR) are common operations performed in orthopaedics. Though initially developed to …
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Creating meaning - understanding the experiences of people living with mental illness in Switzerland: a qualitative study.
… the adaptation process to mental illness from a patient perspective. A constructivist and reflexive Grounded Theory approach was chosen for the main study. Ten participants, people living with mental illness in Switzerland, were interviewed. However, the project also includes a preliminary study, …
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Genetic Testing In Pregnancies With Ultrasound Anomalies: Exploration of Factors That Influence Uptake
… for evaluation of fetal anomalies. Understanding patient motivations for or against expanded genetic testing options is paramount, therefore this study aimed to ascertain the patient perspective. Ninety-nine patients with an ultrasound anomaly participated in an anonymous, cross-sectional, …
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Understanding the multi-faceted patient experience after spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD)
… the experience of SCAD and its effects from the patient perspective. Understanding the person’s experience of SCAD is critical to the provision of patient-centred care. 𝗔𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 The SCAD-Insights study aimed to gain a better understanding of the multifaceted patient experience …
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Patient’s Utilization of Health Information Technologies for Disease Self-Management
… Information Technologies (HITs) provides</p> <p>patients with greater opportunity to take control over their health. HITs utilization has</p> <p>been proven to be a critical component of disease self-management and can result in</p> <p>positive outcomes. Its widespread adoption and utilization is …
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Primary ciliary dyskinesia: a biopsychosocial approach
… thesis aimed: to provide an overview of the PCD patient’s experience, to address some of the complexities in referring and diagnosing PCD patients, and to provide PCD-specific validated health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures. Method: A patient survey to capture patient experience of …
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The cost and cost-effectiveness of a text-messaging based intervention to support management of hypertension in South Africa
… service (SMS) on treatment adherence and patient outcomes for the management of hypertension at Vanguard CHC in Cape Town (Bobrow et al. 2016). Patients received behavioral text messages as reminders for them to collect and take their medication on time. The StAR* study, consisted of three …
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What are the experiences and perceptions of unplanned readmissions to hospital within 30 days of discharge from the perspective of older people and their families within an English NHS context?
… by quantitative research exploring associations, patient characteristics and unplanned readmissions and little attention has been given to the experiences of older people and their families. There is a gap in understanding the patient perspective and viewing unplanned readmissions in a more …
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The Epidemiology and Patient Perspectives of Glucocorticoid Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Inflammatory Diseases
… how GCs are used in RA and the influence of patient and prescriber factors in two large databases in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia. In Chapter 2, primary care data from clinical practice research datalink (CPRD) demonstrated that half of patients with incident RA received GCs in …
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Cancer prehabilitation: Developing a complex intervention for patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal surgery
… is recommended to improve surgical patient outcomes, but is not offered routinely in upper gastrointestinal centres across the United Kingdom. Where prehabilitation is offered, the delivery, and approaches to how it’s delivered and funded are not standardised, resulting in inequity …
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Breast cancer. Quality Assurance and Prognosis.
… programme published in 2009 emphasises the patient perspective and focuses on the patient process. Over the years the different modalities in breast cancer treatment are changing position, making accurate diagnosis and quality assurance in breast pathology even more important than before. …
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