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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"hospital systems"”.
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Information Technology Outsourcing in U.S. Hospital Systems
… associated with outsourcing of information systems (IS), and if there is a difference in IS sourcing based on the strategic value of the outsourced functions. The theoretical framework is based upon a synthesis of strategic management theory (SMT) and transaction cost economics (TCE) as they …
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Impact of Personal, Familial, and Socioeconomic Factors On The Return of Remotely Collected Samples For Genetic Testing
… testing. This retrospective chart review of two hospital systems in Houston, Texas, one a specialty hospital and one a safety-net hospital, obtained personal and familial health, demographic, and socioeconomic information on 326 individuals who consented to hereditary cancer genetic testing and …
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ClinicalTrACE: a self-correcting agent with interpretable uncertainty for clinical question answering
… satisfaction problem that embedding-based systems cannot solve. We introduce ClinicalTrACE, a self-correcting agent that retrieves through explicit structured queries with no fine-tuning and no task-specific training data, achieving 94.1% accuracy versus 76.5% for RAG and 55.3% for a …
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The California Bridge Model For Emergency Department-Initiated Medication-Assisted Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder: Adaptations For Perinatal Hospital Services
… safe, effective, and can be rapidly adopted by hospital systems to improve access to care for people who misuse opioids. Like the Emergency Department, perinatal hospital services are well positioned to serve as critical access points in the treatment of perinatal opioid use disorder. However, …
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A methodology for developing hospital standards
A methodology for developing hospital standards is comprised of components having characteristics of several hospital systems including the cost accounting system, the budget process, and staffing assessments. The methodology is developed for labor, supply, and equipment standards. The cost …
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Advancing green practices in the operating room
Hospital systems produce a substantial amount of environmental pollution, contributing significantly to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate-related health threats. In the United States, healthcare accounts for 10% of national GHG emissions and generates five million tons of waste …
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Interpretable machine learning methods for stroke prediction
… risk for patient populations at two different hospital systems. We show that using an interpretable, optimal tree-based approach is roughly as effective if not better than black-box approaches. Using the clinical learnings from these studies, we explore new interpretable methodologies designed …
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Empirical Data Mining: Conservation of Nursing Energy and Care Capacity in Medical-Surgical Hospital Work Environments
… ENERGY AND CARE CAPACITY IN MEDICAL-SURGICAL HOSPITAL WORK ENVIRONMENTS</p> <p>Nurses are a critical component of the hospital care delivery system and provide essential observation and surveillance of inpatients. Mounting evidence describes an association between nurse staffing, the nurse …
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Composing Care: The Aesthetics and Politics of Music Therapy in the Clinic
… care work of music therapists in North American hospitals. Based on sixteen months of fieldwork conducted between 2019 and 2020 in Canada and the United States, this ethnography investigates the clinical aesthetics of music therapy, or how music therapy is sensed and made sense of in the clinic. …
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Learning to Improve Clinical Decisions and AI Safety by Leveraging Structure
… offers model robustness against evolving hospital systems. Second, we leverage external knowledge in the form of clinical concept extraction to significantly improve relationship extraction. Third, we leverage the rich information from reports associated with chest radiographs to develop …
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Variations in Quality Outcomes Among Hospitals in Different Types of Health Systems
… financial performance across different types of hospital systems, there has been no systematic study of variations in patient quality of care or safety indicators across different systems. Our study examines whether five main types of health systems - centralized (CHS), centralized …
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Dealing with variability in the design, planning and evaluation of Healthcare inpatient units: a modeling methodology for patient dependency variations.
… demand and high variability in healthcare systems. These system’s variations need to be considered whilst at the same time making efficient use of the systems’ resources. Patient dependency fluctuation, which makes determining the level of adequate staffing highly complex, is among the …
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Primary Health Care in Afghanistan
… care due to lack of professional health care, hospitals, clinics, poverty, and finally lack of road infrastructure from one province to another province. The Afghan government tried to solve this problem by creating and implementing the Basic Package Health Service (BPHS) and later the …
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Primary Health Care in Afghanistan
… care due to lack of professional health care, hospitals, clinics, poverty, and finally lack of road infrastructure from one province to another province. The Afghan government tried to solve this problem by creating and implementing the Basic Package Health Service (BPHS) and later the …
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Mothering a neonate/young infant with feeding and swallowing difficulties: barriers, facilitators, and support
… are faced with the reality of caring for an ill, hospitalised infant, particularly one with feeding and swallowing difficulties (FSD). FSD in infants significantly impacts not only the infant's health and development but also the mother's emotional and psychological wellbeing. Caring for neonates …
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Relationships Between and Among the Power of Self-Care Agency, Perceived Structural Empowerment and Psychological Empowerment in Nurse Managers in Acute Care Hospitals with Magnet Designation
… the nurse manager’s role in an acute care hospital is critical to meet the increasing patient care demands and the goals of the organization. The literature provides consensus that optimal nurse manager role behaviors are essential to facilitate a successful unit based organizational …
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Physician’s Resistance to EHR Post Successful Organizational Adoption: Dual Factors Investigative Study
… enhanced the retention of patient data for the hospitals of today. This research is a response to a call for an investigation of the reasons or factors that could affect health care workers’ decision to use or to resist software once it has been implemented. Physicians form the focus of this …