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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Patient perspectives"”.
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Genesurance Counseling: Patient Perspectives
… exists about genesurance conversations and patient expectations. This study aimed to assess patient expectations of GCs in genesurance discussions and evaluate if health insurance literacy impacted these expectations. A 38-item survey, including a validated tool to assess health insurance …
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Utility assessment based on individualized patient perspectives
… of using the terminology of the individual patient to capture and express the individual's particular, perhaps unique, value system for healthiness is explored as a means to evaluate the quality of life. The hypothesis is that a systematic approach that treats the patient as a competent …
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PATIENT PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES IN CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS
Introduction: Understanding cancer patients’ psychosocial experiences with clinical trials is essential for improving patient-centered care and trial participation. This doctoral research includes four studies exploring these experiences using diverse methodologies. Methods: The first study applied …
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Spanish-Speaking Patient Perspectives: Benefits and Barriers of Telemedicine in Genetic Counseling
… limited, particularly for Spanish-speaking patients. Existing studies on patient perspectives are limited and the influence of telemedicine on effective service delivery in a Spanish-speaking population lacks robust data. This study aims to fill that gap, investigating the perceived …
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Patient perspectives on health care system navigation : the chronic illness multi-morbidity experience
… of health care delivery with this complex patient population in mind requires information from many sources. Although much is known about the patient experience of chronic illness much less is understood about how patients navigate their health care delivery context. The purpose of this …
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Patient Perspectives on Barriers to Hepatitis C Treatment: Qualitative Analysis of Patient Focus Groups
… research to date on barriers to treatment for patients with hepatitis C (HCV) has approached the problem from either the perspective of either the medical provider or healthcare system. To better understand these barriers from the patients' perspectives, exploratory focus groups were conducted …
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Patient Perspectives of Sickle Cell Disease Care in Emergency Centres of South African Hospitals
… (SCD) is an inherited, chronic blood disorder. Patients affected by SCD experience systemic, life-threatening complications that requires frequent emergency care. Western studies have reported poorer experiences by individuals with SCD when seeking emergency care compared to other chronic …
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Patient perspectives of sickle cell disease care in emergency centres of South African Hospitals
… (SCD) is an inherited, chronic blood disorder. Patients affected by SCD experience systemic, life-threatening complications that requires frequent emergency care. Western studies have reported poorer experiences by individuals with SCD when seeking emergency care compared to other chronic …
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Patient Perspectives, Follow-up Patterns, and Cost-Effectiveness of a Low-Threshold Mobile Medical Unit
… of therapies to treat opioid use disorder (OUD). Patient-level barriers (e.g. ability to seek care), healthcare system structure barriers (e.g. insurance), and social barriers (e.g. stigma) prevent motivated individuals from accessing medication therapy for OUD, including buprenorphine. …
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Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, And Treatment Experiences For People With Learning Disabilities : Staff And Patient Perspectives
This portfolio thesis has three separate parts: a systematic literature review, an empirical paper, and corresponding appendices. Part One is a systematic literature review that aimed to identify the factors affecting the psychosocial experience of cancer for people with learning disabilities. …
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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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Mind over matter: an exploratory case study of mind-body interventions in the burn unit
… case study was to explore the experience of five patients who participated in mind-body based occupational therapy (MB-OT) while in the burn unit. Individual responses to mind-body practices were assessed and patient perspectives were included to better understand what MB-OT brought to the …
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Homeless High Users of the Emergency Department: Understanding the Relationship Between Life Stress and Emergency Department Use
Background: Patients who frequently use Emergency Department (ED) services are particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes and have high healthcare costs. Homeless high users have particularly complex healthcare needs and increased difficulty in using and accessing healthcare. To determine …
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THE CLINICAL GAZE AND THE BODY IN ILLNESS: ADDRESSING HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES THROUGH AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND SHARED DECISION-MAKING IN MEDICINE
… of how to integrate the context and values of patient perspectives with general conceptions of illness and treatment. With medicine increasingly focused on patient-centered and individualized care, approaches to medicine must find ways to gain access to and understand the patient in such a way …
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Development and Validation of the Quality of Trauma Care Patient-Reported Experience Measure
To deliver patient-centered injury care, patient perspectives must be incorporated into quality measurement and improvement. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to develop and validate a measure of patient experience for use as a quality improvement tool in injury care. A draft survey measure …
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Living with lymphoedema in Ireland: a mixed methods exploration of patient and service provider perspectives
… service provision from practitioner and patient perspectives, in addition to exploring the impact of lymphoedema on patients’ quality of life. Phase one involved a postal survey of 108 practitioners. Phase two involved five focus groups conducted throughout the country with a total of 33 …
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A Prospective Investigation of Pain And Development Effects On The Health-related Quality of Life of Children With Sickle Cell Disease
… the utility of measures of HRQL in capturing patient perspectives of SCD (Dampier, et al., 2010; Panepinto, Pajewski, Foerster, & Hoffmann, 2008); however, much remains to be learned with regard to the responsiveness of these measures to changes in HRQL over time as well as specific factors …
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Understanding facilitators and barriers to contraception screening and referral in young women with cancer
… during cancer treatment, and to understand patient perspectives on these processes. METHODS: We interviewed 19 oncologic providers and 20 female reproductive-aged oncology patients stable on treatment or who had completed therapy within the last 24 months. We recruited participants from an …
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Needs assessment for personalized garments to improve quality of life in breast cancer care
… improved breast cancer survival rates, many patients continue to face ongoing emotional and physical challenges. These challenges may include diminished body image and difficulties with intimacy due to perceived changes in their bodies, which can impact their overall quality of life and …
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Global perspectives on cultural competence in mental health care: Current status and future directions
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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