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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"healthcare communication"”.
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Examining the Intersectionality of Religious Faith, Spirituality, and Healthcare Communication
… in responding to the concern raised by certain communication scholars. Their concern was that little research and few publications have been done in the communication field by communication scholars that trace the relationship among religious faith, spirituality, and healthcare communication. …
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An investigation into information security in general medical practice
… demand by governments and patients for better healthcare communication has seen a growth in adoption of electronic medical records, with general practice as the cornerstone of this distributed environment. In this progressively more electronic state, general practice is charged with the …
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Covering problem with minimum radius enclosing circle
… circle problem in location science to optimize healthcare communication hubs. Given a set of demand points and potential groups, we identify the optimal number of subgroups to cover all points and the circle enclosing them with minimum radius. The center of this circle serves as the …
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E-health reference framework for personalised information provision to promote sound lifestyles
In the present context of increased healthcare demand and costs, health maintenance by prevention is a major strategic objective of public health systems. Western societies increasingly suffer from lifestyle-related diseases triggered by an unbalanced diet, physical inactivity, smoking or alcohol …
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Improv to Improve Interprofessional Communication, Team Building, Patient Safety, and Patient Satisfaction
… was to implement a test of change within a healthcare team utilizing <em>applied improvisational exercises </em>(AIEs), and to lay the groundwork for more effective inter- and intra-professional communication. </p> <p><strong>Literature review:</strong> AIEs have been shown to facilitate …
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Towards the Enhancement of a Critical Cultural Paradigm in Health Communication: An Examination of the Impact of Paradigmatic Structures
<p>In the field of Communication there are a wide variety of ways in which scholars can utilize theories to serve as epistemological frameworks in order to examine sociological structures. In this thesis, the subfield of Health Communication will be examined through a positivistic and critical …
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Activity recognition in the home setting using simple and ubiquitous sensors
… can then be exploited in novel applications for healthcare, communication, education, and entertainment. Prior work on automatic context-inference has cleared the way to a reduction in costs associated with manufacturing the sensor technologies and computing resources required by these systems. …
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Formative Evaluation And Pilot-Testing Of A Communication Program For People With Parkinson's Disease
… Parkinson’s disease both agree that lapses in communication interfere with efficient and effective health care. The Talk4HealthCare program was developed with the aim of helping people with Parkinson's disease to have a collaborative healthcare journey by improving their knowledge, …
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Rewards of a Voluntary Risk Management Committee: Is it Fact or Fiction?
… the timeframe reviewed, particularly in the healthcare, communication, and utilities sectors. The results of this study suggest that relying on traditional financial/accounting ratios might not be the most effective method for assessing a firm's risk. Further, these results underscore the …
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Minority Physician Job Satisfaction: A Content Analysis Of Written Responses To Open-ended Survey Questions About Professional A
Few interpersonal and organizational communication studies examine the professional and organizational aspects of career satisfaction among minority physicians. Due to the underrepresenation of minority physicians, most studies resort to comparing aggregate groups of minority physicians in …
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Narrative of Black Older Women Communicating with Healthcare Professionals
… older women, ages 67 to 87, communicating with healthcare professionals. The research questions that guided the study were: (1) what are the experiences of the study participants navigating interactions with healthcare professionals? (2) how does communication and transfer of information occur …
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Cultural competence in health care: exploring the experiences of Muslim women within the Ontario healthcare system.
… often unrecognized by providers. These include communication and language barriers, modesty issues, provider gender, translator services and poor provider services. Other significant themes in the study also include characteristics of a ‘good’ provider, main challenges for Muslim women, positive …