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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Preventability"”.
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Preventable Deaths at Acute Care Hospitals
… hospital do not account for the uncertainty of preventability ratings. Objective To determine the proportion of deaths in hospital that a have high probability of being prevented with high quality care. Methods We created summaries for every death at a tertiary care hospital over 4-months. Four …
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Monitoring medication problems in the elderly and strategies for their reduction.
… both medication-related morbidity and preventability issues in this group of the population. Determining the incidence of hospital admissions related to the use of medications could provide an indication of the more serious drug-induced morbidity in the community. The present study …
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Counselors’ Spirituality, Attitudes Toward Suicide, and Self-Efficacy in Conducting Suicide Risk Assessment
… suicide as common, suicide as acceptable, and preventability of suicide. Multiple moderated regression analyses were performed using SPSS 26.0. Different than hypothesized, three of the four attitudes measured (common, acceptable, and preventable) did not significantly moderate the relationship …
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Noise Levels in a South African bank cash centre
… within the employment sector, in spite of the preventability there of. In order to effectively prevent this debilitating disorder the risks need to be fully understood. One such area that requires investigation is the cash centres within the financial, banking industry. The aim of this research …
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Essays on Risk Indicators and Assessment: Theoretical, Empirical, and Engineering Approaches
… includes an incident's severity, frequency, and preventability. Then we study the predictability of health outcome based on early risk indicators. A systems model of patient health outcomes and hospital length of stay is presented based on initial health risk and physician assessment of risk. The …
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The role of diet, nutritional assessment and nutritional intervention in the prevention of cancer and the treatment of cancer-related malnutrition
… malnutrition and maximise on the potential preventability of cancer through dietary and lifestyle changes.
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The burden of serious adverse drug reactions in South Africa
… Multidisciplinary teams assessed causality, preventability, and seriousness of these events using published criteria. The World Health Organization-Uppsala Monitoring Centre system for standardised case causality assessment was used. This choice was informed by a study using a sample of cases …
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The preventable burden of musculoskeletal conditions in Australian musicians
… investigating the impact of MSSs, or their preventability in terms of psychosocial and organisational factors potentially associated with MSS outcomes. The central research question in this thesis was: “is there a preventable burden of musculoskeletal conditions among Australian university …
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Expectations and Preferences of Parents and Adolescents Regarding Feedback of Individual Genetic Findings in an HIV-TB Genomic Research Project in Botswana
… genetic results regardless of their severity, preventability or actionability, adolescents were reluctant to receive results for genetic conditions that are severe and non-preventable, especially if they are also unactionable. Participants advanced different reasons for feedback of results …