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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"patient choice"”.
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The impact of user charges on patient choice of healthcare services in Ireland
… of user charges in the context of consumer choice to ascertain how user charges in healthcare impact on patient behaviour in Ireland. Quantitative data is collected from a subset of the population in walk-in Urgent Care Clinics and General Practitioner surgeries to assess their responses to …
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The use of patient choice in public health interventions for HIV treatment and prevention. A systematic review
… literature to describe interventions in which patients are given a choice in their HIV care, and examine the impact of patient choice on reported health outcomes among studies including a non-choice comparison group. Methods: We searched PubMed and reference lists, from 1 January 2010 to 8 …
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Is it just the prayer? : Determining and exploring patients' reasons for choosing a faith-based primary health clinic over their local public sector primary health clinic
… very limited published data on the reasons for patient choice of faith-based health care, particularly in South Africa. Aim: The objective of this study was to determine and explore the reasons for patients' choice of a faith-based primary care clinic over their local public sector primary care …
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Three Ways Social Factors Stratify Individual Choices About Organizations
… to demonstrate the relationship between chooser (patient) demographics, at both the individual and neighborhood levels, on the likelihood of choosing a "high-status" cancer hospital in California. Chapter 1 does this in multiple ways. First, it shows that a patient's propensity to seek treatment …
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The aims of the primary health care reforms in Finland between 1993-2015: a systematic review
… equitable access, improved quality, increased patient choice and cooperation and integration of services. Conclusions: A number of policies and reforms have been implemented which have directly or indirectly aimed to strengthen the Finnish PHC system. Some policies have intended to strengthen …
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Betting On Health Care: Evaluating Private Equity Activity In Addiction Treatment
… that prioritize revenue over quality of care, patient choice, and patient safety, perpetuating low-value care. This paper uses PitchBook data and statistical analysis to map private equity acquisitions of addiction treatment facilities across the U.S. and compare them to overdose and social …
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Understanding end-of-life admissions: an interview study of patients admitted to a large English hospital shortly before death
Hospital admissions for patients close to the end of life are considered ‘inappropriate’ in contemporary English health policy. Hospitals are supposedly unable to offer a ‘good’ death for patients, and dying there is thought to contradict patient choice, since patients are assumed to want to die at …
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A probabilistic model for estimating demand for selected existing rural community hospitals that may be facing closure in West Virginia
… are interested in how local factors influence patient choice among hospitals. Administrators need to know why patients are admitted to their hospitals so they can develop more sophisticated marketing of their services in an increasingly competitive environment. Planners concerned with issues of …
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Minfulness-based Treatment Options for Anxiety as a Function of Described Etiology and Psychological Characteristics
… 2006). Responding to a lack of data regarding patient treatment preference generally (Spring, 2007), and preference for mindfulness-based treatment in particular, this study sought to examine factors related to patient choice in an analogue scenario. Method: Undergraduate students (121 male, …
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Minfulness-based Treatment Options for Anxiety as a Function of Described Etiology and Psychological Characteristics
… 2006). Responding to a lack of data regarding patient treatment preference generally (Spring, 2007), and preference for mindfulness-based treatment in particular, this study sought to examine factors related to patient choice in an analogue scenario. Method: Undergraduate students (121 male, …
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The Use of Transvaginal Ultrasound and Biochemical Markers in the Diagnosis of Endometriosis.
… of pelvic<br/>endometriosis would be valuable to patients in a number of ways: to guide patient choice regarding treatment; to plan fertility or medical treatment; to enable referral to the most appropriate centre and surgeon if surgery is chosen; to enable pre-operative counselling; and better …
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Decision making in surgery and cancer care
… factors (knowledge, skill, expertise, judgment), patient factors (socio-economic, education, cultural), nursing factors, translational research, and resource infrastructure.Important themes and outcomes emerged from the qualitative studies. The focus group discussions showed that decision making …
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Nurse Practitioner Adoption of Clinical Innovations
… rejected by NPs, this decision has meaning for patients, NPs, health care agencies, and society. The decision controls the opportunity for patients to access a clinical innovation that could reduce morbidity and mortality, save money, and provide satisfaction related to the health care …
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Is the Probability of Survival for A Liver Transplant Dependent on the Patient's Choice of Hospital?
… for Organ Sharing (UNOS) allocates organs to patients based on patient characteristics and assumes all hospitals have equal skill. The question for a patient thus becomes, which hospital to choose? This thesis investigates whether the differences in liver transplant survival rates for …
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Planning for death? An ethnographic study of choice and English end-of-life care
… to create a largescale change in the way dying patients were cared for. This dissertation explores the meaning, practice, and experiences of end-of-life care (EOLC). It is based on ethnographic fieldwork from 2010-2012 that follows policy into and across healthcare practice and the daily lives …
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Optimising the prescription and use of lower limb prosthetic technology: a mixed methods approach
… of prosthetic prescription from both the patient and professional perspective. This data was then used to create a Delphi survey of 23 experts within the amputation and prosthetic field, including users, service providers and academics, to develop a consensus on the most important factors …
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Individual responsibility, justice and access to health care
… justifiable to use former lifestyle to select patients for treatment. Chapter one outlines the principles of the NHS and discusses the reality of rationing in health care provision in Britain. I maintain that there is a prima facie legal and moral right to health care and explore whether this …
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Development and feasibility of an arts-based intervention for patients with end-stage kidney disease whilst receiving haemodialysis
… disease (ESKD) is a life changing illness. Many patients require<br/>haemodialysis, a treatment that involves patients attending hospital three times a week for four hours each time. This treatment impacts profoundly on quality of life (Ho and Li, 2016) and mental health (Bujang et al., 2015). …
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Three Essays on Health and Labor Economics
… effects of occupational licensing regulations on patient choice, costs, and outcomes in maternal care. In the United States, there are substantial restrictions on who can provide healthcare and how they do so. These labor market restrictions seek to improve quality, but may also increase the cost …
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Evaluating changes to emergency and urgent healthcare in England
… three key aspects of evaluation: acceptability (patient, carer, and workforce), effectiveness, and equity with respect to three of the most significant recent changes within emergency and urgent healthcare in England: telephone delivered healthcare, new roles within the workforce and, extended …