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Identifying Speech-Language Pathologists' Current Perceptions and Practice Patterns
… regarding their current perceptions and clinical practice patterns with individuals with neurogenic and psychogenic stuttering. Participants reported using a battery of assessments and a variety of treatment approaches to diagnose neurogenic and psychogenic stuttering in addition to traditional …
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Psychiatric Genetics: Confidence Levels and Practice Patterns of Mental Health Professionals
… integrate psychiatric genetics into clinical practice, mental health professionals should be able to understand and confidently interpret current genetic and genomic research.</p> <p>PURPOSE: Identify areas where mental health professionals lack confidence in their knowledge of basic genetic …
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Practice Patterns and Influential Factors of Nurse Practitioners Managing Chronic Pain
… chronic pain or factors that influence those patterns. These gaps have implications on NP regulation and workforce development, as well as primary care transformation and clinical practice. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation is to understand primary care NPs’ opioid and non-opioid …
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Practice Patterns and Health Outcomes of Adjuvant Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer
… questions regarding how these findings changed practice, whether these outcomes are obtained in the general population, and – given oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy – the relationship between treatment duration and post-treatment falls. METHODS: We leveraged linked administrative and …
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Clinical use of probiotics: A survey of physicians’ beliefs and practice patterns
… clinicians currently prescribe probiotics in practice. Understanding physicians’ beliefs and practice patterns regarding the use of probiotics will help identify current practices, barriers preventing their acceptance, and the sources of information that impact clinical practice.</p> …
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The Effects of Ability and Practice Patterns on Learning a Perceptual-Motor Task
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:44:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114987.pdf: 3054326 bytes, checksum: 68d3552a14574603a5b7223122303407 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Play Therapists’ Practice Patterns and Perceptions of the Factors that Influence Caregiver Engagement in Play Therapy
… but little research exists to document specific practice patterns and perceptions of play therapists in relation to achieving caregiver engagement. The purpose of this study was to identify the practice patterns of play therapists, their perceptions of the factors that influence caregiver …
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Rural Physicians' Perceptions, Beliefs, and Practice Patterns: Catalysts or Barriers to the Diffusion of Complementary Medicine
… of physicians’ perceptions, health beliefs, and practice behaviors in impacting this integration process. The majority of studies have focused on providers practicing in urban locales, neglecting physicians in the rural practice setting. This information is essential for the development of …
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A Validation Of Critical Constructs Of Essential Evaluator Competency And Evaluation Practice: An Application Of Structural Equation Modeling
… essential evaluator competency and evaluator practice. The research questions in this study, according to Smith (2008), are essentially, what he defined as “fundamental issues in evaluation.” These issues fall into one or multiple of the four aspects identified in the fundamental issues in …
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Essays on health outcomes and physician practice variation within a public single hospital: the case of Malta
… between health care outcomes, physician practice patterns and individual physician characteristics within a very specific and particular health care sector, the health care sector on the Islands of Malta. Chapter 2 focuses on the appropriateness of introducing a Diagnosis Related Group …
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The Role of Health Promotion in Physical Therapy
… this study was to investigate physical therapy practice patterns in four focus areas of Healthy People 2010 (focus area #6, disability and secondary conditions by looking at psychological well-being; focus area #19, nutrition and overweight; focus area #22, physical fitness and activity; focus …
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Weighing the Options: Assessing Two-A-Day Practices in Collegiate Football
… of Virginia Tech football's two-a-day practice schedule changes. More specifically, the research examined the relationship between weight loss and hydration as associated with two-a-day practices and studied the deviation with relations to practice patterns. Participants included …
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Operating room fire management simulation and instructional video
… widely adopted in nursing education to develop practice-ready nursing professionals and correct suboptimal practice patterns. The aviation industry first used simulation to develop psychometric, critical thinking, and crisis management skills among pilots. This approach to safety quickly …
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Screening for Torticollis and Plagiocephaly: The Role of the Pediatrician
… age at time of diagnosis, and the attitudes and practice patterns of the physicians. All subjects were given a standardized screening procedure by verbal instruction and handout, and also completed a pre-‐ and post-‐intervention questionnaire, which assessed the practice regarding …
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Transfer of Knowledge From a Physician Residency Training Program
… keep patients well, much of their training and practice focuses on providing sick care to those who are ill or injured. In 1994, the Texas Department of Health began an initiative to promote clinical preventive services using the “Put Prevention Into Practice” (PPIP) model. Included in the …
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Factors Associated with Play Therapists' Use of Family-Systems Play Therapy Interventions
… beliefs about attachment, and play therapy practice patterns, significant relationships were identified among all but one set of variables. The results of this study supported the need for required play therapy education that applies family systems approaches to address attachment …
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Holistic Occupational Therapy Dining Interventions Supporting Individuals with Dementia in Skilled Nursing Facilities
… current dining related interventions in clinical practice can be accomplished by providing additional resources and programming to OTPs. Implementing holistic interventions that facilitate participation in feeding, one of the longest remaining abilities of IwD, affords OTPs the opportunity to …
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A Novel Psychotropic Risk Assessment To Enhance Medical Management Of Patients With Behavioral And Psychological Symptoms Of Dementia
… weeks. The adoption of the checklist to change practice patterns, and influence the prescribing culture in the nursing homes, was founded on Roger’s Diffusion of Innovation theory (Rogers, 2003). Evaluation methods included qualitative impact results from the interdisciplinary team, and chart …
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Barrier to Utilization of Primary Healthcare Resources in Children Two Years of Age and Under
… service utilization using the Immunization Practice Data Set obtained from the Center for Pediatric Research, Norfolk, Virginia. Cluster sampling was used to identify a cohort of children (n = 271), aged 0 to 24 months, from the city of Norfolk, Virginia. A two-year abstraction of medical …
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Skill embeddings: artificial neural network representations for pedagogical policy development.
… each other in a common vector space. Second, a practice-based approach to directly infer a pedagogical policy is given. This uses student histories and behavioural cloning of historical teacher decisions to make choices about what homework to set. The third stage combines these two techniques, …
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