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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"patient's perspective"”.
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Controlled Substance Agreements:The Patient's Perspective Explored Through the Theory of Human Caring
… supports their effectiveness in increasing patient adherence, education, or legal protection for providers.</p> <p>Research Question: How do patients receiving long-term opioid treatment characterize the controlled substance agreement process?</p> <p><strong>Method</strong>: This …
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The Health of Patient Privacy: The Patient's Perspective on the HIPAA Protected Health Information
… they must enforce policies that require patients to sign and express understanding of the organization’s privacy policies. It appears the patient’s perspective on healthcare privacy has not been considered within the HIPAA privacy ruling. Patients are healthcare consumers, yet little …
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Women's lived experiences of the breast cancer trajectory: the waiting period for treatment and the impacts on feminine identity
… with five black and coloured breast cancer patients residing at two of CANSA's care homes. Participants varied in age and phases of treatment, were all married or widowed, had minor dependants, and had all travelled from distant and outlying areas. Based on a thematic analysis, six themes …
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Experiences of Pain in Elderly Patients Having Total Knee Arthroplasty
Patients experiencing postoperative pain are at an increased risk for developing life-threatening complications. Effective interventions for pain relief exist, but are under- utilized. The reasons for the under use of interventions need to be identified so that changes in nursing practice can …
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Humanistic Caring: Personal Influences, Coping Processes, Psychological Outcomes and Coping Effectiveness
… and outcomes of caring by nurses from a patient's perspective. Rating the amount of humanistic caring from a specific nurse who had the greatest effect on them during their current hospital admission, this sample of 120 adult, hospitalized, medically-treated patients, between 25 to 65 …
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Patients' and Health Care Providers' Perception of Stressors in the Critical Care Units
… of this study were to investigate intensive care patients' perceptions of stressors, to investigate the health care provider's perception of what constitutes a stressor from the patient's perspective, and to describe how health care providers manage their patients' stressors. This study is a …
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Understanding the pathways to oesophageal and stomach cancer diagnosis: a multi-methods approach
… timely diagnosis of these cancers from a patient's perspective, with a particular focus on health literacy (accessing, understanding and using health information, and navigating healthcare systems). I started by exploring current knowledge in this field before conducting a systematic …
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Methods and madness : researching community health workers' perceptions of mental illness in Khayelitsha and Nyanga
… issues. In the past few decades, anthropological perspectives gained from cross-cultural research into health beliefs and practices have made valuable contributions to the planning and implementation ofPHC programmes. In the field of medical anthropology, hermeneutically orientated approaches play …
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Rožinės sukelti akių pažeidimai: paplitimo, būdingiausių simptomų ir gydymo analizė /
… and most common ocular symptoms among rosacea patients, and to evaluate the treatment provided for eye damage and its effects. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of rosacea-specific eye damage among patients with rosacea. To determine the most common eye symptoms caused by rosacea and compare …
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Nursing Students’ Empathy in a Palliative Care Scenario: The Standardized Patient’s Perspective
… palliative care scenario where standardized patients (SPs) play the patient, and the students’ empathy is described from the patient's perspective. This study aims to answer the research question: How do SPs describe their experiences and perceptions of empathy from senior nursing students …
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Assessing health-related quality of life in people with aphasia
… to better understand the impact of disease on a patient's life as a whole and to incorporate the patient's perspective in clinical decision making and in the evaluation of health care. A number of studies have explored the HRQL of people with stroke. Still, due to a number of conceptual and …
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Telefonrådgivning - en verksamhet i tiden : studier ur ett patient- och sjuksköterskeperspektiv
… model in terms of appropriateness of referrals, patient’s compliance with given advice and costs. Design: Evaluative. Method: Consecutive patients (n= 362) who phoned the medical care help line (MCHL) during four months. Results: The advice was considered adequate in 97.6% cases. The patients’ …