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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Patient-centred care"”.
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A study of transplant online services for patient-centred care
… the uses of the Internet and email in health care and specifically focuses on the use of these technologies in the management and support of patients following kidney transplantation. Health information websites are recognised to differ widely in quality and reliability of their content. This …
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Developing a patient-centred care pathway for paediatric critical care in the Western Cape
Background: Emergency care of critically ill or injured children requires prompt identification, high quality treatment and rapid referral. This study examines the critical care pathways in a health system to identify preventable care failures by evaluating the entire pathway to care, the quality …
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An Assessment of Patient-Centred Care in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Conditions Attending Chiropractic Practice
Background: Patient-centred care is seen as an increasingly important component of health care quality, particularly for patients with chronic conditions. Chiropractors frequently see patients with chronic musculoskeletal conditions and the chiropractic profession is often described as …
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Influence of patient-centred care and population health management approaches to improve adherence to oral hypoglycaemic agents in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the borough of Hounslow (UK)
… and assessing medication adherence of the patients attending the surgical pre-assessment clinic at West Middlesex University Hospital (WMUH), it was noticed that most patients and particularly those with diabetes were neither fully aware of their condition nor adherent to their prescribed …
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Investigating patient centered care in an acute older adult ward - a qualitative study
This project investigates patient centred care on an acute older persons' unit in a NHSTrust in the UK. It uses a method based on grounded theory, integrated with anethnographic approach to examine the knowledge, beliefs and behaviour of staffworking on an acute older persons' unit regarding …
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Patient-Centered Hemodialysis Nursing Care: An Interpretive Description
Background Patient-centred care originated in the 1950s, gained popularity in the 1990’s, and is a professional regulatory, clinical practice guideline, governmental health policy, and perhaps organizational expectation of every nurse in Canada. The term is used liberally on the Health Canada …
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Exploring the patient journey: a collaborative approach to patient-centred improvement in healthcare.
Despite widespread endeavours over many years, patient-centred care continues to evade some areas of healthcare. This can be clearly evidenced by regular reporting of sub-standard care and the findings of national patient experience surveys which repeatedly highlight a number of common contributory …
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'Expert Patient' in Health Professional Education: Experience of OT Students
Patient-centred care is the gold standard of health care, yet in practice, problems prevail. The use of the ‘expert patient’ in health professional education is one form of learning patient-centred care. A gap in the literature regarding how the use of ‘expert patient’ in health professional …
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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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The Construction of Care in Computed Tomography. Exploring Care from the Perspective of Patients and Radiographers
Purpose: Patient centred care and the ‘patient voice’ are core components of UK healthcare policy and practice guidance. This study explores how care is perceived and experienced within the high technology environment of CT. Methods and Materials: A two-phase approach of Critical Discourse Analysis …
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The impact of having intellectual or developmental disabilities on breast cancer treatment: A convergent mixed-methods study
… cancer can help inform strategies for improving patient-centred care. Methods: This mixed methods project includes three studies: (1) A population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario among females diagnosed with breast cancer (2007- 2018) using routinely collected provincial health data …
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Improving Outcomes for People Living With Unrelieved Neuropathic Cancer Pain - Understanding the Epidemiology, Patient Experience and Optimal Clinical Trial Design: The INCEPT Mixed Methods Project
… for Australians with cancer receiving palliative care, and a qualitative systematic review describing the experience of people with neuropathic cancer pain. Phase II sought to explore ways to better develop a solution framework for the evaluation of pharmacological interventions for people living …
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Multilingual medical communication: Staff with different language repertoires in an intensive care environment
… and the nursing profession within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a private South African hospital. Global nursing migration and local skill shortages have created a workplace context in which English is the dominant language of a linguistically diverse site. This research explored how …
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A qualitative study into the communication surrounding the initiation and withdrawal of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in people with Motor Neurone Disease
… by clinicians. A framework incorporating patient-centred care principles and evidence-based medicine was used to link clinicians’ communication to the most recent MND guideline recommendations. The data collected were coded and categorised manually for each participant transcript and again …
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Integrating the Rare Disease Context into Medical Training Models
Patient centred care (PCC) and evidence-based medicine (EBM) are cornerstones in the education of primary care providers. While teaching these approaches are intended to improve patient care, EBM and PCC were not developed with rare disease (RD) in mind, and therefore the tenets of those models may …
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A qualitative study of healthcare workers' and patients' perspectives on changing the model of care from outpatient to in-home for the infusion of natalizumab
… flexible delivery of natalizumab by ambulatory care nurses for people with multiple sclerosis. Currently, people with multiple sclerosis receive natalizumab intravenous infusions through an outpatient intravenous therapy service. Using a hospital in the home model to offer people with multiple …
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A symbiotic model for transforming public healthcare in New Zealand
Given the poor state of public healthcare in New Zealand, this study challenges researchers and practitioners to expand their conceptual repertoire beyond mere cost-cutting and piecemeal improvements to consider potentially transformative business models. It invites stakeholders to consider how …
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Natural Language Processing Reveals Patient Reported Experiences
Patient-reported experiences play a significant role in healthcare performance monitoring and evaluation, and are critical to developing patient-centred care approaches. While quantitative approaches to uncovering patient experience through survey-based methods traditionally dominate healthcare …
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Patient satisfaction with treatment at early intervention services for bipolar disorder in Iceland : a cross-sectional study
… impairment. This research aimed to assess patient satisfaction with early intervention treatment provided by the bipolar disorder team at Landspítali (e. The National University Hospital of Iceland), with the primary objective to enhance patient-centred care and improve the service. The …
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‘Through the patient’s eyes’: shadowing patients at the end of life
Background The priority given to patient-centred care in recent years has included a requirement for healthcare organisations to collect patient experience data, and to improve patients’ experience of care. Shadowing is an experiential technique intended to enable healthcare staff to collect …
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