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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"continuity of care"”.
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Discrimination-Based Attributions for Mistreatment Affect Continuity of Care
<p>Previous research has described the role of perceived healthcare mistreatment and negative emotions in continuity of cancer screening care for both Latino and Anglo American women (Betancourt, Flynn, & Ormseth, 2011). From a social psychological perspective, cognitive processes, such as the …
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Attributions for Interpersonal Healthcare Mistreatment and Continuity of Care
Although continuity of cancer-related care increases the use of early detection cancer screening exams (Doescher, Saver, Fiscella, & Franks, 2004), and thereby improves treatment outcomes (Mandelblatt et al., 2009), Latino (Latina) women in the U.S. currently report lower continuity of care than …
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HIV Continuity Of Care Including Mental Health and Risk Behaviors
… dissertation is intended to provide health care providers a way to connect, communicate, and understand barriers including adherence that potentially lead to behaviors that keep low income communities at-risk for contracting HIV infection. This knowledge can potentially lead to improved …
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Guidelines for Culturally Informed Interventions: Culture, Attributions and Continuity of Care
<p>Although early detection can improve survival of breast and cervical cancer, U.S. Latinas are more likely to be diagnosed at later stages of cancer and have poorer survival rates compared to Anglo women. Poorer continuity of care and adherence to recommended screening are seen as contributing …
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Child Care Center Directors' Perceptions of Continuity of Care: A Qualitative Investigation
<p>Continuity of care, keeping a primary caregiver and children together throughout the first three years of the infant/toddler period or for the time that the child is enrolled in child care, is assumed to influence infant and toddler development positively. However, strong empirical support is …
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Exploring Health in Military Families: Does Continuity of Care Influence Patient Satisfaction?
… is essential. Military family health and health care satisfaction has been a neglected area of study in this population. Satisfaction can be defined in terms of patient-, provider-, and practice-level factors and is influenced by continuity of care, which is often poor in transient military …
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A case study of factors influencing primary healthcare Continuity of Care for persons with disabilities
Background: “Continuity of Care” refers to how a patient experiences care over time and is considered to be a central pillar in the delivery of high-quality person-centred healthcare. In South Africa (SA), persons with disabilities experience a range of structural barriers to health services and …
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How do patients view continuity of care in a rural hospital with significant medical staff turnover?
BACKGROUND Continuity of care is connected, coherent, and consistent care in relation to the patients’ health care needs and personal circumstances (Haggerty, Roberge, Freeman and Beaulieu, 2013). Continuity has been associated with improved health care, and is greatest when the patient establishes …
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Influences on the continuity of care for patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis referred from tertiary and district hospitals
South Africa is one of the countries with the highest burden of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The fact that adult patients diagnosed with TB frequently do not attend their primary healthcare clinics after discharge from hospital for continued treatment remains a challenge for public …
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Continuity of Service Provision for Repeat Customers: Empirical Investigations of Continuity of Care in Primary Care Practices
Many service processes are sequences of independent transactions between customers and servers. In such contexts it is well known that pooling server time and offering an arriving customer the next available server, independently of whether they had seen the customer before, is most efficient. …
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Positive health: The passport approach to improving continuity of care for low income South African chronic disease sufferers
… inefficient inter-organizational communication of patient information and the lack of a centralized health database. Research question: How does the experience of chronic disease patients with their health information inform the development of future health records in low income population …
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The role of the professional nurse in providing continuity of care for geriatric patients at Groote Schuur Hospital
Due to the fragmented structure of the health organisation in South Africa, there is often difficulty in assuring good co-ordination between in-patient and domiciliary health facilities. This results in the discharge of patients from hospital with poor prospects for the continuity of health care in …
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The significance of Continuity of Care in the context of chronic ARV care in the Public Health Care system
Continuity of care (COC) is a fundamental concept in Family Medicine. The rollout of antiretrovirals in the primary care setting of the public health care system in South Africa was 'vertically' isolated from the other clinics. This isolation provides a rich environment to research COC. The present …
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Continuity of care for substance misusing prisoners released to a local community drug treatment system: A quantitative analysis of the systems approach.
Background: Continuity of care (CC) is associated with increased rates of engagement with drug treatment, and drug treatment is associated with reductions in crime. However, performance rates of CC reflecting the prison-to-community transition for substance misusing prisoners (SMP) are low and, …
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Simpatia and Negative Interpersonal Emotions in Continuity of Health Care
<p>Past research has demonstrated that continuity of care has positive outcomes for patients. Continuous care has been shown to have positive outcomes for the patient, including increased patient satisfaction, decreased hospitalizations, decreased emergency department visits, and improved receipt …
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A new way of being: an autoethnographic account of an academic journey exploring continuity of midwifery care
… training pathway in which the experiences of midwives who work in a continuity of care model were explored. It is a story of adaptation and survival, and reflects a postgraduate research journey in which many challenges have been overcome. Within this postgraduate research programme, I …
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Team-based electronic communication in the care of patients with complex conditions
Background: The management of patients with complex care needs often involves specialized care from multiple providers in different settings. Care coordination is often inadequate, leading to poor continuity of care. Digital health tools can connect patients and their team of providers to …
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The association between usual health care utilization and stage at diagnosis in laryngeal cancer
Background: A significant number of laryngeal cancer patients are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease. Since stage at diagnosis is an important prognostic factor, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of individuals at risk of being diagnosed at an advanced stage. Objectives: (1) …
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