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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Pediatric health care"”.
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Extent to Which Social Workers Use NASW Ethical Standards
… advances and the commodification of health care create complicated ethical considerations for these social workers. These facts and my experience with ethical dilemmas and problems in pediatric health care led me to investigate whether social workers in children's hospitals were …
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Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology
… was tested with systems being implemented at a pediatric health care facility. Results from this study provide insight into the relationship between the antecedents of technology utilization. Specifically, task time provided significant direct causal effects on utilization. Indirect causal …
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Information provision, informational value, and relational support: assessing perceptions of pediatric family-centered communication as predictors of weight-related outcomes in preschool children
… overweight adults compared with those in a healthy weight range (CDC, Vital Signs, 2013; Ogden, Carrol, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). Pediatric well-child visits are arguably one of the most opportune times to address weight-related problems and obesogenic behavioral patterns at both the family and …
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Documenting dreams : patient-centered records versus practice-centered records
… to share their knowledge within and across healthcare settings. In addressing this question I draw on a 15-month, multi-sited ethnographic study in several pediatric health care settings, following patients from primary care clinics, to emergency rooms, and in-patient units. The analysis …
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A Roadmap for the Journey Home - A Supplemental Tool Guiding Patients from Hospital to Home
<p>Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have recognized readmission rates as a public health problem. CMS incentivizes hospitals to reduce readmission rates and reduce payments for hospitals with high readmission rates (Berry et al., 2013). Patient education and discharge planning are associated …
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Empirical essays on health care for children and families
… essays investigating different aspects of health care for children and families. The first essay examines the effectiveness of adherence to American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for preventive pediatric health care. Using a national longitudinal sample of children age two years and …
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Selection of an Evidence-Based Pediatric Weight Management Program for the Dan River Region
Background: Efficacious pediatric weight management (PWM) programs have existed for over two decades, but there is limited evidence that these programs have been translated into regular practice. There is even less evidence that they have reached communities experiencing health disparities where …
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Can the environmental protection agency's air quality index (AQI) be used to predict pediatric emergency room admissions for asthma?
… by the general public to be forewarned of unhealthy air quality days. This study reviewed daily ER admissions at an urban pediatric hospital in Dallas, Texas for the months of May through September 2000, in an effort to predict increased admissions for asthma during high ozone episodes. If …