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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"patient journey"”.
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Exploring the patient journey: a collaborative approach to patient-centred improvement in healthcare.
Despite widespread endeavours over many years, patient-centred care continues to evade some areas of healthcare. This can be clearly evidenced by regular reporting of sub-standard care and the findings of national patient experience surveys which repeatedly highlight a number of common contributory …
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Data Mining and Causal Analyses: A Healthcare Operations Approach to Understanding the Patient Journey
… applications to provide insight into the patient journey – the process of how patient seek and receive care from the healthcare system. In the first section of the thesis, we empirically analyze the beginning stage of the patient journey of opioid use. In the United States alone, the …
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A pre-post study of patient journey modeling as a change management tool to increase clinician acceptance of EHRs.
The purpose of this research was to determine if patient journey process modeling could act as a change management tool to support electronic health record (EHR) adoption, at a tertiary-care mental health centre. This research study was based on a pre/post design, which evaluated the attitudes of …
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Enhancing the Care Pathway for Older Patients with Fractured Femur: An Action Research Study
… on identifying ways in which to improve the patient journey for those who have suffered from fractured femur from admission to hospital until recovery and discharge into the community. A Participatory Action Research (PAR) Cycle was conducted which was guided by the Habermas (1984) Theory of …
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Exploring structures and processes of medicines management in elderly hospitalised patients in the United Arab Emirates.
Given the complexity of medicines use in elderly patients, structures and processes of medicines management are key to deriving best outcomes. This research was conducted in hospitals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and focused on the patient journey from admission to discharge. The overall aim …
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Modeling process and information systems: leveraging technology to improve service operations
… user-centric process modeling methodologies, Patient Journey Modeling Architecture (PaJMA) or Customer-Centric Process Improvement Methodology (CCPIM), and incorporate Electronic Health Record (EHR) access data to develop and validate process models which reflect the patient care journey or …
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A framework for quality improvement and evaluation of a clinical decision support system in NICU environment in cross-cultural settings.
… model, combines with the CRISP-DM model and the Patient Journey Model Architecture (PaJMa); with the purpose of providing a new approach for quality improvement in a NICU environment and evaluating the effectiveness of the CDSS which was implemented as a tool to support the quality improvement …
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A mixed-methods approach to mapping caregiver-reported paths of service delivery following early ASD concerns
… of understanding, while a qualitative approach (patient journey mapping) was selected to capture the potential complexity of a subset of families’ experiences (prioritizing depth of understanding and family perspective). Results revealed a number of considerations for potential future use of …
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The role of nurse navigators indiagnostic phase of adult patients with lung cancer
… is a clinical process that involves mapping the patient journey, identifying and prioritizing the symptoms, and corresponding the symptoms with relevant treatment. Oncology nurse navigators are professional nurses who educate and advocate for, and navigate the cancer patient throughout his/her …
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Experiences of falls in domestic settings and use of ambulance services : an ethnographic study
… that followingambulance call-outs, 24-32% of the patients were not conveyed to hospital andof those, only 32-52% were referred to the local Falls Prevention Service for aspecialist multifactorial assessment (NICE, 2013).BackgroundThe literature review undertaken supports the need for a falls …
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Exercise behaviour in Ankylosing Spondylitis
… about exercise behaviour. In the context of the patient journey, four discrete exercise behaviours (no prescribed exercise, other exercise, two tier behaviour, prescribed exercise), and four responses to changing disease status (no behaviour change, transient change, goal oriented change, non …
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Can postoperative length of stay or discharge within five days of first time isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery be predicted from preoperative patient variables?
… has been a steady increase in the number of patients being discharged within five days of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The ability to be able to predict those patients likely to be discharged within five days of surgery is important to improve the individual patient pathway, plan …
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The Contribution of Pharmacy to The Management of HIV Patients at Maitama District Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria
… evaluations of service provision from both patient and healthcare professional perspectives, especially, pharmacists in Nigeria have never been conducted, and are the aims of this research. This study involved grounded theory methodology, using In-depth semi-structured interviews with adults …
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The Essence of Home: An ethnography of the home and its meaning in the context of extended hospital stays in a pandemic
The patient experience of extended hospital stays and how these impact the relationship with home is under-researched. Understanding of these experiences may demonstrate how clinical communication affects patients and then inform clinical practice. This thesis uses the stories of patients and …
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Retrospective analysis of treated prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity prevalence, and healthcare utilization and expenditures in commercially insured children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
… psychiatric conditions between ASD and non-ASD patients, and to estimate incremental healthcare utilization and expenditures. A commercial claims database was utilized to address all aims. Prevalence rates were generated for 819 ZIP3 regions, and a generalized linear model (GLM) was used to …
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An exploration of the recognition of deterioration in ems witnessed cardiac arrest: improving national outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
… significant variation in the recognition of patient deterioration in the pre-hospital environment by Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The synthesis of my body of work will demonstrate and evidence the steps taken to address this deficit in knowledge. Here, I synthesise the findings from my …
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A Process Modelling Framework Based on Point Interval Temporal Logic with an Application to Modelling Patient Flows
… of a temporal theory to describe and model the patient journey in the hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department. The aim is to introduce a generic but dynamic method applied to any setting, including healthcare. Constructing a consistent process model can be instrumental in streamlining …
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Patient waiting times within public Emergency Centres in the Western Cape: describing key performance indicators with respect to waiting times within Western Cape Emergency Centres in 2013-2014
… times are related to the various stages of a patient journey through the Emergency Center. In South Africa this has not been routinely done. The Western Cape has conducted audits in recent years to measure these. This study aims to provide a snapshot of waiting times (specifically time to …
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Strengthening health systems through eHealth: two mixed-methods case studies at 10 facilities in Malawi
… initiatives. While many studies of eHealth for patient care in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are taking place, evidence of its role in improving administrative processes such as financial management is lacking, despite the importance of ‘good governance’ (transparency and …