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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"discharging patients"”.
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Retrospective analysis of outcomes in the programme of fast-tracking of antiretroviral therapy for patients admitted to a palliative care centre after diagnosis of opportunistic infections
… antiretroviral therapy (ART) mainly to outpatients with WHO stage four disease and/or CD4 count of 200 cells/uL, immediate ART initiation after opportunistic infection (OI) treatment in the inpatient wards at several international sites has been shown to reduce the adverse outcomes of AIDS …
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Use of location data for the surveillance, analysis, and optimization of clinical processes
… eases PACU workload by reducing the effort of discharging patients.
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The Design, implementation and Evaluation of a Technology Solution to Improve Discharge Planning Communication in a Complex Patient Population
… days for socially and medically complex patients thereby increasing the financial burden to healthcare organizations. The literature supports enhanced discharge communication strategies and the use of checklists to facilitate safe and timely discharges. Following root cause analyses of …
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Medicines Management after Hospital Discharge: Patients’ Personal and Professional Networks
… between providers can cause preventable harm to patients, yet there is insufficient evidence of the structure and function of the medicines management system that patients experience. This research used a mixed-methods social network analysis to determine the structure, content and function of …
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Improving surgical patient flow through simulation of scheduling heuristics
… surgeries with the discharge rate and pattern of patients from the hospital floor by investigating ways surgeons could potentially schedule their cases within a given OR block. To do this, various scheduling rules are modeled to measure the impact of shifting patient flow in each step of the …
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Examining patients’ satisfaction in Jordanian emergency departments through business process improvement implementation
… in healthcare services provision to enhance patients’ satisfaction. Previous research has concluded that Jordanian ratings of service quality and quality of care provided in public hospitals are lower compared to other nations in the region and abroad. These studies, however, failed to …
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Essays on health care delivery and financing
… system in which physicians are assigned patients by a triage nurse "manager," and a "self-managed" system in which physicians decide among themselves which patients to treat. I estimate that the self-managed system increases throughput productivity by 10-13%. Essentially all of this net …
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Modeling neuroscience patient flow and inpatient bed management
… average weekday, the hospital admits about 220 patients, with the emergency department (ED) and the operating rooms (OR) being the main sources of admissions. Given MGH's high occupancy rates, a comparable number of discharges have to occur daily, and the intraday time distributions of …
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Delayed discharges from an adult intensive care unit (ICU)
… effectiveness of intensive care unit services. Patients who no longer need intensive care unit care block beds for impending admissions, unnecessarily utilise the costly and often scarce resources and by remaining in a stressful environment may experience negative psychological and social …
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The Creation and Implementation of Guidelines for the Appropriate Termination of Patient-Provider Relationships
… <em>challenging </em>or <em>difficult</em> patients from their practices, questions to support this decision arise. Discharged patients face displacement and healthcare is disrupted. This project will (a) describe problematic patient-provider relationships and its effects, (b) identify …