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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Process of Care"”.
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Children's Process of Care Measure Implementation Readiness
National adult acute care outcome tracking was instituted in 2000 under the assumption that doing so, and publicly reporting the results, would lead to improvements in the healthcare industry and lives saved. The results speak for themselves. Unfortunately, the process has yet to be mandated in the …
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Process of Care and Outcome of Critically Ill Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
… methods to examine the relationship between process of care and outcome of critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). First, I evaluated the association between intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring use and mortality after severe TBI at the patient-level and at the …
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A systematic analysis of the differences in process of care and outcomes between patients admitted and not admitted to hospital after a stroke
The population of this study is a subset of the Tees Stroke Register population. The patients were all residents of the area, had their first ever in their lifetime stroke and were not inpatients in hospital at the time or stroke onset. I have written the protocols and documented all the …
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Robustness of the achievable benchmark of care method
<p>The Achievable Benchmark of Care Method is a process of care performance improvement measurement approach for identifying top performing healthcare providers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the robustness of the method. This was achieved by comparing the robustness of the standard …
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Process and Outcome Disparities in NICUs: A Grounded-Theory Study
… This dissertation explored the process of care within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) that may be impacting neonatal health outcomes, as perceived by NICU registered nurses (RNs).</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> NICUs are one of healthcare’s most demanding environments. …
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Assessment of quality of life in individual patients with head and neck cancer: opinions and preferences of patients and clinicians
… face considerable challenges as a result of their diagnosis and therapy. Psychosocial aspects are accepted as critically important in their care. Our hypothesis was that ‘carefully designed and structured questionnaires can be used to improve the quality of life of head and neck cancer …
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Use of location data for the surveillance, analysis, and optimization of clinical processes
Location tracking systems in healthcare produce a wealth of data applicable across many aspects of care and management. However, since dedicated location tracking systems, such as the oft mentioned RFID tracking system, are still sparsely deployed, a number of other data sources may be utilized to …
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Exploring the factors that influence equitable access to and social participation in dementia care programs by foreign-born population living in Toronto and Durham Region
The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers that influence participation and utilization of dementia care and support programs by the foreign-born population. A qualitative interpretive study was conducted using one-on-one semi-structured interviews with the following three subgroups who …
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The Clinical Nurse Leader as Risk Anticipator: Optimizing the Completion and Accuracy of the Code Blue Recorder Sheet
… a practice improvement project in critical care units to optimize best practices surrounding a “code blue” event. In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (IHCA) is a high-risk process of care that requires tremendous resources to deliver an efficient, safe, and cost-effective service. The code blue …
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Patients centred pharmacovigilance
In recent years, periodically high peaks of attention and publications have documented severe adverse reactions to new molecules, which have raised many questions about the efficacy- efficiency of traditional methodological tools of phannacovigilance, as well as about the role of regulatory …
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Evaluating the quality of care within residential services for older people
The quality of care within residential services for older people has been a source of concern within health and social care for some time. Several attempts have been made to develop a means of assessing the quality of care; however, the nature and quality of these varies enormously. The Quest …
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A Lexi-ontological Resource for Consumer Healthcare: The Italian Consumer Medical Vocabulary
In the era of Consumer Health Informatics, healthcare consumers and patients play an active role because they increasingly explore health related information sources on their own, and they become more responsible for their personal healthcare, trying to find information on the web, consulting …
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Perceptions on the development and implementation of a care pathway for people with schizophrenia
… to enable a managed response to the delivery of mental health care. This has been made through various Government in initiatives such as'general management and clinical audit. Methods have developed,such as a care pathway to control the way care is delivered along planned treatment …
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STEMI Management and Outcomes at a Regional Hospital in Guatemala
… myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality worldwide, with a growing burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Guatemala, in-hospital mortality from acute coronary syndromes markedly exceeds global averages due to delayed presentation, limited …
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An evaluation of healthcare professionals’ decision-making in the care of frail older people at end of life
… this evaluation aims to evaluate the influence of policy and practice on the decision-making of professionals to inform service delivery.<br/><br/>This evaluation utilised a case narrative approach to explore professional decision-making that underpinned the care of three deceased frail older …
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An audit of geriatric stroke rehabilitation services at a post-acute hospital (Booth Memorial) in urban Cape Town, South Africa
… Memorial Hospital (BMH), situated at the foot of Table Mountain in urban Cape Town, South Africa, is an NGO-run hospital in a Public- Private Partnership with the Western Cape Department of Health. The essential service being offered is sub-acute health care, with state hospitals referring …
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From Theory to Practice: Improving Causal Conclusions from Healthcare Data
… epidemiological, and health policy research often relies on observational data, such as electronic health records (EHRs), patient registries, or insurance claims, to compensate for the inaccessibility of randomized controlled trials. However, causal inference from observational data depends …
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HOSX: Hospital operations excellence model
… can be evaluated in four categories: (i) quality of care, (ii) process of care (iii) financial and (iv) operations productivity. Of these, 'quality of care' is the most widely reported and studied measure of performance, and focuses primarily on the clinical outcomes of the patient. In contrast, …
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Implementation of health and social care standards in health and social care services: development and feasibility testing of an implementation support tool
Introduction Health and social care standards are complex quality improvement interventions. Standards are typically made up of evidence-based statements that describe safe, high-quality, person-centred care as an outcome or process of care delivery. They involve multiple stakeholders from multiple …
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The Importance of Family Environment in Raising Children with Special Needs Aged 0-6 Years Old /// Значението на семейната среда при отглеждане на деца със специални нужди от 0 до 6 години
… for society because they are subject to a policy of radical change from isolation in special institutions to deinstitutionalization and development of alternative care and other social services for them and their families. The present study accentuates on the global trends in child protection and …
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