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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Quality of health care"”.
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The reliability and validity of adverse-event measures of the quality of health care
The quality of healthcare is increasingly the subject of scrutiny by a range of stakeholders, including healthcare provider organisations, health professionals and their representative bodies, healthcare purchasers and funders, policy makers and national governments, patients and users of health …
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What are physicians' perceptions of proposed federalized healthcare and how do they feel it will impact the quality of health care?
The purpose of the study was to examine physicians' opinions of a federalized health care system as well as the effect federalized health care will have on the quality of patient care provided by physicians. A survey was randomly administrated to physicians from across the United States. The survey …
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Perceptions on the impact of nurses' strikes on nurses, the nursing profession and on quality of health care in KwaZulu-Natal Province
The aim of this study was to pursue an exploratory, descriptive case study to investigate perceptions on the impact of nurses' strikes on nurses, the nursing profession and on the quality of health care. Other aspects of the strike phenomenon that were investigated included the issues of job …
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An Examination of African Americans' Utilization of Health Care
… examined the relationship between perceptions of discrimination, social support, quality of health care received, and utilization of health care services among African Americans. Data was analyzed from 99 African American respondents that completed either an online or paper questionnaire. The …
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Adherence to radiation therapy among cervical cancer patients at cancer diseases hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.
… study therefore sought to investigate the levels of adherence and factors influencing adherence to radiation therapy among cervical cancer patients being treated at Cancer Diseases Hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study design was used, 142 patients were selected from the …
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Adherence to radiation therapy among cervical cancer patients at cancer diseases hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.
… study therefore sought to investigate the levels of adherence and factors influencing adherence to radiation therapy among cervical cancer patients being treated at Cancer Diseases Hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study design was used, 142 patients were selected from the …
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Assessing the Impact of Electronic Health Record Systems Implementation on Hospital Patient Perceptions of Care
<p>The delivery of health care services has been impacted by advances in Knowledge Management Information Systems (KMIS) and Information Technology (IT). The literature reveals that Electronic Health Records Systems (EHRs) are a comprehensive KMIS. There is a wide recognition in the body of …
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Should Hospitals and Managed Care Organizations Compete for the Health of It
… empirical research uses data from the population of inpatient Medicare hospitalization occurrences in Florida during 1995. Seventeen diagnoses are selected and examined using patient discharge data from this state. Measures of local competition, including Herfindahl indices as measures of hospital …
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Community Health Needs Assessment and American Hospital Association
<p>The purpose of this analysis is to examine the effect of the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) as established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This includes an analysis of the implementation process and the intervention development. The analysis includes five …
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The impact of information technology upon primary health care in Great Britain
This is a study of the impact of information technology on health care in Great Britain. Its major aim is to identify means by which information technology may improve the quality of health care in specific areas within the health services.The study concentrated upon general practice and was split …
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Effects Of Managed Care On The Health And Health-Care Of The Non-Elderly With Diabetes
<p>This dissertation attempts to examine the quality effect of managed care plans (as compared with traditional fee-for-service plans, or FFS) on the health outcome and health care use of patients with diabetes. As the number of diabetics is growing rapidly with many of them are relying on managed …
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The Effects of Foreign Aid on Government Policies: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses
… on our main result. We consider two variants of the model depending upon whether the recipient can or cannot have access to international borrowing. In the case without international borrowing, when domestic investment is exogenous, optimal tariff is zero. In contrast, when domestic investment …
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SECONDARY PREVENTION MEASURES FOR CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
… coronary artery disease (CAD), has long been one of the leading causes of death in the US. In order to reduce the morbidity and mortality from CAD, secondary prevention practice guidelines have been developed by the major cardiovascular societies in the US and abroad to provide a benchmark for the …
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The Development of a New Model for Assessing African-American Spirituality in Palliative Care
… interventions leading to concerns about the quality of health care in general and palliative care in particular for this population. Acknowledging patient preferences are essential in administering quality health care especially when a patient's condition is terminal. But when …
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Patterns and determinants of health care utilization : an assessment of high density urban areas in Harare, Zimbabwe
… known, since independence in 1980, to have one of the best health care systems in Sub-Saharan Africa regardless of a low economic growth pattern. The gains in health status that have been reaped in the 1980s and early 1990s have now been reversed due to the combination of the effects of …
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Medical malpractice: efficiency of the negligence standard of physician liability
… and concern within the medical and legal professions, the malpractice insurance industry, and for healthcare patients. The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze and evaluate the ability of the negligence standard of civil liability to facilitate efficient resource allocation between …
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Staff Nurse Leadership: Leading at the Point of Care
<p>As health care undergoes pervasive transformation, the need has become acute to develop leadership at all levels of nursing. Decision-making by staff nurses at the point of care has significant impact on patient care outcomes and quality of health care in today's decentralized institutions. …
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Patient-Provider Encounter: The Contemporary Cameroonian Story
… recognize that cultural beliefs influence health and interactions about health. Within the African context, religious cultural beliefs constitute dynamic elements of the culture. My dissertation explains the influences of religion and culture on patient-provider interactions in Cameroon. My …
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Home Telehealth in Heat Failure Patients
… holds a great potential to improve the quality of health care delivery. The use of remote patient monitoring, or telehealth (TH), has been widely adopted by many home care agencies to facilitate early identification of disease exacerbation, particularly for patients with chronic diseases …
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Security in pervasive health care using location-based key generation schemes
Remote health monitoring has tremendous potential to improve quality of health care services in modern and ubiquitous medical environments. It helps to cut the cost in modern healthcare by avoiding unnecessary hospital visits for frequent checkups. In this context, security and protection of …
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