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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Standards of Care"”.
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Standards of Care and Practice to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
… among organizations such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the Centers for Disease and Control, and the Joint Commission. While evidence-based literature supports decreasing the number of indwelling catheters and reducing the number of day’s catheters remain inserted, the persistent …
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Preserving the Health & Well-being of Elderly Adults: Encouraging Standards of Care within Residential Care Facilities
<p>Hospitalizations are expensive to our healthcare system, and too often can be prevented. A large portion of preventable hospital stays are elderly individuals. In this case, these hospitalizations can also be detrimental to the health of the individual, as they may begin to decline while not …
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Standards of care, skill, diligence, and the business judgment rule in view of South Africa's Companies Act 71 of 2008: future implications for corporate governance
… that company directors have to play in the life of a company that they are appointed to manage. South African law (in s66 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008, the Act) has now followed the global trend of recognising that directors have original authority/mandate to manage or direct company affairs …
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COMPARATIVE BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF SURGICAL FIXATION TECHNIQUES WITHIN THE PROXIMAL TIBIA AND FUSION TECHNIQUES WITHIN THE LUMBAR SPINE
… techniques have the potential to improve patient care and outcomes, but their efficacy is often difficult to quantify. Establishing biomechanical models of physiological trauma and repair within orthopedic load bearing tissues in cadaveric samples provides an essential first step toward proving a …
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Essays on malpractice law and physician behavior
This dissertation contributes to an understanding of the manner in which various dimensions of malpractice law shape physician behavior and how this behavior, in turn, impacts health outcomes. In Chapter 1, I explore the association between regional variations in physician practices and the …
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Factors Contributing To Registered Nurse Job Satisfaction In the Nursing Home
… the aging population will increase the number of patients suffering from chronic illness. A sicker aging population, coupled with changes in healthcare reimbursement will require nursing homes to admit sicker patients for shorter lengths of stays. To meet the needs of the increased number of …
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THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY DISCHARGE AFTER POST-ACUTE CARE AMONG MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES
Health equity, in which high standards of care are provided to individuals regardless of individual characteristics, is a goal of the healthcare system. Social risk factors such as socioeconomic position, cultural contexts, and community factors may negatively affect health outcomes despite high …
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Development of a Clinical Pathway for Patients with Chronic Rotator Cuff Tears
Clinical care pathways can be described as evidence-based best practice care that set out all of the decisions and services involved in treating a condition, are widely accepted, and are highly utilized. Clinical care pathways reduce unnecessary variations in patient care, improve quality of care, …
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Tuberculosis: standards and resources for quality improvement in resource limited settings
… affected by HIV and the development of drug resistant TB. The primary means with which to affect TB globally are to decrease transmission locally, mainly by effective identification, diagnosis, and treatment of TB patients. Providing quality care to TB patients is therefore essential …
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Managing Education Collections: The Care/Use Balance in Natural History Museums
… not much literature exists on the level of care these collections receive and how institutions make decisions regarding this care. The purpose of this research study was to examine the standards of care for education collections at natural history museums. Using a descriptive case study …
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Quantitative biomarkers for tissue characterization
… primary metrics investigated include estimation of longitudinal speed of sound and shearwave elastography. Additional metrics investigated include bioimpedance and functional tests specifically for muscle health quantification. Diagnosing and monitoring of health of muscle and liver tissue is the …
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Text Reminders in Pyrexial Paediatric Patients (TRIPPP): a randomized controlled pilot study
Transitions in care – including at the point of discharge from a hospital - may potentially place patients in a position of increased risk and vulnerability.(1) This is recognised to be of particular concern for paediatric patients, compounded by the fact that no widely accepted or used standards …
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BONDING BETWEEN FOSTER PARENTS AND FOSTER CHILDREN
… close to 500,000 children were in the foster care system in 2009 in the United States, and the average length of care was over 26 months. The primary focus was why foster parents are unable to form a bond with the children placed in their home and the effects of not forming any attachment to …
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Clinical governance : a study of implementation : a study of change
The concept of clinical governance was first introduced to the National Health Service in the White Paper published in 1997 (Department of Health); it has been described as the 'linchpin' of the quality reforms and, as of April 1999, is one of the statutory duties placed on NHS Trust Boards. …
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Homecare Portacath Protocol in IVIg Administration
<p>Homecare Portacath Protocol in IVIg Administration</p> <p>The objective for this CNL internship project was to close a practice gap that was discovered while evaluating my microsystem for system improvements. My microsystem is a medium sized Home Health Agency with a specialty of in home …
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Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning and Off Policy Evaluation for Medical Decision Making
<p>Healthcare applications pose significant challenges to existing Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods due to implementation risks, low data availability, short treatment episodes, sparse re[1]wards, partial observations, and heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE). Despite significant interest in …
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A case study of the drivers and barriers of implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) within a rural sub-district in South Africa
… is recommended by the National Department of Health (NDOH) as crucial to improving the standards of care required for optimal support for mothers to successfully breastfeed. The Cape Winelands District in the Western Cape is a region that needs to improve the accreditation rate for its …
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Motivational factors and post procedure impact of facial dermal fillers: a qualitative descriptive study
… has been a worldwide increase in the number of minimally invasive cosmetic procedures, such as dermal fillers. As there are few studies in this field, with most focussing on cosmetic surgery, we conducted research into perceptions around use of dermal fillers, which could contribute to …
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Risk Factors Contributing to Transmission Rates of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Among Women in Veron, Dominican Republic
… organism Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea among adolescent and adult females that utilize the clinic in Veron, Dominican Republic. Clinical standards of care for these STIs and educational programs for prevention were …
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Standardizing Injustice in Transition-related Medicine?: An Institutional Ethnography of How Assessment Protocols Coordinate Inequitable Access to Hormones and Surgeries in Canada
… surgeries. In response, standardized care protocols, such as the World Professional Association of Transgender Health standards of care (WPATH-SOC), are recommended to improve gaps in care. To better understand how standardized care protocols shape access to transition medicine in …
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