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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"healthcare research"”.
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Enhancing the Reliability of Real-World Evidence and Clinical Decision-Making: Robust, Calibrated, and Uncertainty-Aware Methods for Observational Healthcare Research
… instrumental in clinical and public health research, providing opportunities for more generalizable and practical insights compared to traditional randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Nevertheless, observational studies inherently encounter critical challenges, such as model …
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Medición de la cultura de seguridad del paciente en un hospital público de primer nivel en el municipio de Villeta
… Patient Safety Cultura’ (HSOPSC) de la Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) versión en español, la cual evalúa doce dimensiones. Los resultados mostraron fortalezas como el aprendizaje organizacional, las mejoras continuas y el apoyo de los administradores para la seguridad del …
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Our Words Matter: A Proposed Study to Examine the Effects of Clinician Language Training on Patient Opioid Abstinence
Stigma in the healthcare system is widely documented. A significant medium through which stigmatizing thoughts, opinions, and attitudes are propagated is language. Stigmatizing language can create barriers to care, while inclusive non-stigmatizing language has the ability to highlight a patient’s …
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Clinical Text De-identification Using Large Language Models: Insights from Organ Procurement Data
… clinical notes, which will facilitate ethical healthcare research and enhance compliance with contemporary data protection standards. Ultimately, this dataset holds significant potential for improving processes and outcomes within the field of organ donation and procurement.
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A Modular Approach to the Development of Interactive Augmented Reality Applications.
… enormous impact on industries such as education, healthcare, research, training and entertainment. There are currently a number of augmented reality toolkits and libraries available for the development of these applications; however, there is currently no standard tool for development. In this …
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STANDARDIZATION OF SHIFT REPORT BY IMPLEMENTING A NURSING REPORT SHEET AND ADDRESSING PATIENT VALUES TO MEET PATIENT NEEDS
… from one clinician to another. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (2013) reported that approximately 70% of patient adverse events are attributed to communication failures between healthcare providers. Nurses remain inconsistent with information sharing during bedside shift …
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Can You Hear Me Now: Being Deaf and Healthcare Experiences.
… impacts an individual's experience in accessing healthcare. Research conducted by Montoya et al. (2004) found that the adult deaf population is severely underserved in the healthcare system. Sheppard and Badger (2010) found that it is important to also consider the deaf culture when evaluating a …
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Exerting Capacity: A Grounded Theory Study of the Perspectives of Bedside Registered Nurses about Patient Safety in the Adult Acute Care Environment
… of patient safety has become a priority focus in healthcare research since 2000 following the release of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) (1999) report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Despite the development and implementation of patient safety initiatives, there continues to be …
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VAP Prevention in the CTICU
<p>The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2015) has cited ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) as the most common infection in the ICU. In 2014, four episodes of VAP were identified in the 25-bed adult cardio-thoracic ICU (CTICU), a dynamic clinical environment within an academic medical …
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Interprofessional Team Training in the Pediatric Life Support Program: Effects on Teamwork and Quality of Resuscitations
… The Joint Commission, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality all advocate for training to improve teamwork and patient safety, but the methods and related expenses of team training initiatives vary considerably. Training variation has raised concern from those who seek to …
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IMPROVING QUALITY AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PROVIDERS AND NURSING - A PSYCHIATRIC SBAR TOOL (PSYCH)
… the cornerstone of providing safety and quality healthcare. However, nursing and providers often share information inequitably, as these disciplines are trained differently regarding communication. Providers are taught to be brief, accurate and focused while nurses are taught to be descriptive …
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Validating Targeted Behavioral Markers for Teamwork Skill and Performance Outcomes in Simulation
… formerly the Institute of Medicine, asserts healthcare providers must demonstrate competency in teamwork (IOM, 2001). TeamSTEPPs® is a comprehensive instructional framework developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Department of Defense to teach and evaluate teamwork …
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Improved Communication for Safer Patient Care: The Implementation of SBAR
… assessment incorporating staff and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) surveys, in addition to observational data, indicated a need for communication improvement. Lewin’s three step theory of change was applied in formulating an educational program to address current communication …
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Examining the Relationship Between Patient Safety Culture and Patient Experience in Ambulatory Surgery Center Settings
… surgery centers that are part of a large healthcare organization in the United States. The study included analysis of two existing data sets, namely the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture and the Outpatient and Ambulatory …
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Indigenous Burn Survivors Experiences of Injury, Care, and Social Reintegration
… efforts to use a decolonizing approach to the research to understand survivors’ experiences. Three Indigenous individuals who had suffered significant integumentary injuries were interviewed to deepen understanding of the topic. Interpretations from this study revealed that preforming …
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Readmission Reduction Of 1st Year Transplant Recipients
… with morbidity, medical errors, higher healthcare economic costs, and indicative of decreased survival post- transplant. Literature suggests that up to 72% of transplant recipients may have low health literacy increasing risk of readmission. The Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality …
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An Architectural Framework for Evidence-Based Practice Diffusion, Dissemination, and Institutionalization
… and a demand for the safest, value-added healthcare have led to the proliferation of research studies. Unfortunately the evidence from most of those studies has yet to be applied to evidence-based practice (EBP) projects. Much of this research and many of EBP projects remain waiting to be …
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Reducing Mortality from Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Macro System Approach
<p>Healthcare organizations must be able to provide quality patient care from arrival to disposition that is both expedient and safe. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranks septicemia as the number one most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals, resulting in aggregate costs of …
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Data mining Twitter for cancer, diabetes, and asthma insights
<p>Twitter may be a data resource to support healthcare research. Literature is still limited related to the potential of Twitter data as it relates to healthcare. The purpose of this study was to contrast the processes by which a large collection of unstructured disease-related tweets could be …
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The Relationship Between Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture, Nurse Advocacy, and Nurse Sensitive Patient Outcomes
… patients is part of that role; however little research existed that explored how advocacy was related to the safety culture or specific patient outcomes.</p> <p>A correlational cross-sectional design was chosen for this secondary data analysis. Correlation and regression models were applied to …
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