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Showing 1 to 20 of 625 for “"in-patient"”.
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In-Patient Self-Management Diabetes Education
… diabetes self-management education to the in-patient with diabetes. The specific aim is to improve and standardize diabetes education for the inpatient with diabetes by June 2015. The microsystem is a medical surgical unit for patients 18 years and older who present with diabetes as either …
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Physiotherapists’ perceptions of spirituality in patient care
… significantly over the past decades, with increasing recognition that effective patient care extends beyond the treatment of physical symptoms to encompass the psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of human experience. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified …
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Trust and gender in patient-practitioner relationships
This research investigates the phenomenon of patient trust in primary health care providers. Using the qualitative methodology of Memory Work, this research draws largely on social constructionism to understand gendered 'lived' experiences of trust within the patient-practitioner relationship. The …
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Perspectives on empathy in patient-GP communication
Contains fulltext : 173630.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Dynamic In-patient Therapy: A Team Approach
<p>The paper reports on the philosophy and clinical results of an individualized but concentrated team approach to hospitalized patients undergoing a psychological crisis. The team focuses on the patient’s key vital coping technique as the source of his vulnerability and assists the patient toward …
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Role Expectations of the In-patient Nurse Practitioner
Although many nurses are becoming nurse practitioners, there are numerous people who are confused and unaware of the role functions of the nurse practitioner including other nurses. The problem under investigation was to determine the extent to which registered nurses in a staff position accepted …
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Issues In Patient Information Transmission: Standardizing Home Health Admission
<p>When 84 patients, current and former, complained about lack of information during the intake process within five months period, a uniform "Patient Screening Tool" (Appendix L) was developed to improve the admissions process to this home health agency. Intake staff is responsible for receiving …
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Acute Kidney Injury in In-patient undergoing Enhanced CT
배경: 최근 의학기술의 발달에 따라 조영제에의 노출은 증가 추세이나 부작용을 줄이기 위한 저삼투질 비이온성 조영제의 보급으로 조영제에 의한 신손상의 증감에 대해 많은 보고가 있다. 본 연구에서는 조영제 사용 전산화 단층촬영을 시행한 입원환자에서 급성 신손상의 발생빈도와 시점에 대해 점검해보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 2010년 3월 1일부터 7월 30일까지 5개월동안 아주대학교 병원에 입원하여 전산화 단층촬영을 시행받은 환자 128명을 대상으로 하였다. 의무기록과 조영제 투여 전후의 검사실 소견을 조사하였고 조영제에 의한 급성 …
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Implementation of Violence Risk Assessment Tool on In-patient Psychiatric Unit
<p>Violence towards healthcare workers in acute care settings, particularly mental health units is increasing nationwide, causing safety and financial concerns for health care organizations. Efforts were made to decrease assaults directed towards healthcare staff on a twenty five bed adult mental …
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Factor scoring methods affected by response shift in patient-reported outcomes
Objective: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are measures collected from a patient to determine how he/she feels or functions in regards to a health condition. Longitudinal PROs, which are collected at multiple occasions from the same individual, may be affected by response shift (RS). RS is a …
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Seeing Biomedically: the Routine Grounds of Translation in Patient Oriented Research
In this dissertation, I show how two doctors perpetuate social divisions and reproduce biomedicine as an institution of social control when taking a patient oriented approach to translational research. The two doctors collected data directly from patients and privileged patients’ personal …
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The role of gender in patient-provider trust for tuberculosis treatment
Background: In South Africa, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death, and Cape Town is among the three cities in the country with the highest TB burden. Despite implementation of Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS), and improvements in the organisation and delivery of TB care, …
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MODELLING GBA1-RELATED PARKINSON¿S DISEASE PATHOLOGY IN PATIENT-DERIVED MIDBRAIN ORGANOIDS
Aggregation of α-synuclein protein in “Lewy bodies” and “Lewy neurites” and dopaminergic neuronal loss in the nigrostriatal system are the key neuropathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease. Mutations in GBA1, encoding the glucosylceramide-hydrolyzing enzyme glucocerebrosidase, cause Gaucher’s …
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Evaluation of the Nursing Handoff Process from Emergency Department to In-Patient Unit
<p>Handoff, or transition in care, is known to be a danger point in the patient care process for a long time. Ineffective communication during handoff is one of the most common identified cause of catastrophic or sentinel events in hospitals (The Joint Commission, 2015). Emergency department (ED) …
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Explicating patient appraisals of chronic pain self-management advice in patient–provider consultations
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Was the patient cured? : understanding semantic categories and their relationship in patient records
In this thesis, we detail an approach to extracting key information in medical discharge summaries. Starting with a narrative patient report, we first identify and remove information that compromises privacy (de-identification); next we recognize words and phrases in the text belonging to semantic …
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PNPLA3 P.I148M VARIANT INCREASES LIPID DROPLETS NUMBER AND SIZE IN PATIENT-DERIVED LIVER ORGANOIDS
PNPLA3 rs738409 C>G p.I148M variant is the main genetic determinant of metabolic associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). To this day, this association still lacks a molecular characterization, due to the lack of comprehensive human models. To overcome this gap in knowledge, we generated …
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Investigating the expression of plasma membrane calcium ATPase (PMCA) in patient-derived glioblastoma cultures
… most prevalent and aggressive form of primary brain tumour in adults, characterised by extensive heterogeneity, rapid progression, and resistance to conventional therapies such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Despite decades of research, the median survival for glioblastoma patients …
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Application of Symphonology Theory in Patient Decision-Making: Triangulation of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
This study tested the theory of Symphonology in two ways: 1) by determining if concepts in Symphonology were expressed in the experience of patients involved in health care decision-making, and 2) by testing the effect of an education/counseling intervention based on Symphonology, designed to …
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