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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"care pathway"”.
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Automated Care Pathway Modeling Using Agentic and Knowledge-Aware LLMs
Clinical pathways (CPWs) translate evidence-based guidance into stepwise care but are often disseminated as free text, obscuring control-flow semantics needed for clarity and computability. Formalizing CPWs as process models - e.g., in the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) - improves …
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Optimizing care for patients with chronic pelvic pain: a care pathway
Contains fulltext : 323967.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Modelling intermediate care services as part of an integrated care pathway
… implementing enhanced or redesigned intermediate care initiatives in the Western Cape of South Africa from the 2014/15 financial year onwards. Using a dynamic modelling methodology, we developed an empirical model of an integrated care system to explain the linkages, relationships and interactions …
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Enhancing the Care Pathway for Older Patients with Fractured Femur: An Action Research Study
… in Malta is causing more demands on the healthcare system whilst exacerbating problems in providing optimal healthcare delivery. This study focused on identifying ways in which to improve the patient journey for those who have suffered from fractured femur from admission to hospital until …
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Perceptions on the development and implementation of a care pathway for people with schizophrenia
… 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 trajectories. In this …
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Developing a patient-centred care pathway for paediatric critical care in the Western Cape
Background: Emergency care of critically ill or injured children requires prompt identification, high quality treatment and rapid referral. This study examines the critical care pathways in a health system to identify preventable care failures by evaluating the entire pathway to care, the quality …
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A clinical audit on the quality of care and the outcome of patients with pregnancy induced hypertension within a primary-secondary care pathway: the Wesfleur-New Somerset Hospital Axis, Cape Town, South Africa.
… This study aimed to determine the quality of care given to women diagnosed with Pregnancy Induced Hypertension (PIH) within a care pathway spanning peri-urban primary and urban secondary level facilities. Methods: This was a retrospective clinical audit of medical records of patients diagnosed …
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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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Vision-based context-aware assistance for minimally invasive surgery.
… various applications through the whole patient care pathway, such as medical resources scheduling and report generation. Automatic surgical activities understanding is an essential component for building context-aware surgical system. However, analyzing surgical activities is a challenging task, …
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Retention of best practices by clinicians after knowledge transfer
… after the implementation of an integrated care pathway for patients with congestive heart failure. While the literature suggests there are many reasons why the implementation of best practices is difficult, there is little information on the sustainability of best practices once …
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Delay in accessing healthcare after transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke : the role of primary care in the problem and the solution
… is known in the UK about where patients seek care and the key influences of the time to contact healthcare services. However, using cohort studies to answer questions on healthcare access requires an assessment of how well such cohorts represent the wider population. Within the primary care …
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DIGITAL HEALTHCARE: RETHINKING THE PATIENT ROLE IN TELEMEDICINE
In the recent decades, the healthcare system has undergone several transformations driven by digitalization and technological innovation. The advent of healthcare technologies has changed the way patients are cared for by healthcare professionals, offering new opportunities for continuity of care …
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Specialist Healthcare Services for Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
… with persistent symptoms have extended healthcare needs requiring ongoing care in outpatient services. However, guidance on mild TBI care in the outpatient setting is limited, and the standard of care in England remains unclear. This thesis aims to address how to plan care provision and …
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A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS ON THE ROLE OF CAREGIVER IN THE CLINICAL PATHWAY OF PATIENTS NEWLY DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST AND PROSTATE CANCER
In recent years, research on the caregivers’ involvement in the Shared Decision-Making and cancer care has burgeoned in the psychological field; however, knowledge gaps still exist because most studies have failed to acknowledge the multidimensional nature of agreement/disagreement among dyads in …
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A Descriptive Study of Military Family Needs Following a Polytraumatic Injury
… family member adaptation and adjustment to the caregiver role has a significant impact on the well-being of the person with the injuries. The Veterans Health Administration is rapidly developing services to meet the needs of severely injured service personnel and their family members. The …
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The profile and cost of end-of-life care in South Africa - the medical schemes' experience
… spend billions of Rands each year on medical care costs for their beneficiaries near their end of life. Hospi-centric benefit design, fee-for-service reimbursement arrangements and fragmented, silo-based delivery of care result in high, often unnecessary spending near the end of life. Factors …
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Optimising service organisation for stroke patients
… Results Organised inpatient (stroke unit) care showed reductions in death, death or dependency and death or institutional care compared to general medical wards. Stroke unit care appears to reduce the risk of adverse outcomes through prevention and treatment of complications. Acute, …
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‘My bones won’t break me.’ A reflective topical autobiography exploring the experience of living with premenopausal osteoporosis.
… for the condition, with its established health care pathway and support systems. There is a paucity of literature on the patient experience of osteoporosis and literature on the patient experience of premenopausal osteoporosis seems absent altogether. The aim of this study is to explore the …
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Improving radiographers’ and patients’ communication in the cardiac catheter laboratory (radiographer’s perspectives)
… imaging during a critical period of the care pathway. Effective communication and interaction between cardiac radiographers and patients prior, during, and post-procedure can contribute not only to reducing procedural time but enhances patient care. This qualitative study aimed to …
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