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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"patient management"”.
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Perinatal Patient Management
… staff to accommodate the needs of maternity patients. Patients are redirected to other network and non-network medical centers due to lack of bed availability, inadequate nurse staffing, and poorly managed patient movement. This project aims to improve patient management in the perinatal …
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Graphical and Bayesian Analysis of Unbalanced Patient Management Data
… a target INR range, generally 2-3. The farther a patient is above or below their prescribed range, the more dangerous their situation. A variety of point-of-care (POC) devices has been developed to monitor patients. The purpose of this research was to develop innovative graphics to help describe a …
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Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change
… the other two will be submitted to healthcare management journals after completion of my degree. All three papers introduce new information about either the cost or the behaviors of patients in local clinics, filling a gap in the healthcare system's management and policy literature. The first …
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Judgement Analysis of Patient Management: General Practitioners' Policies and Self-Insight.
… decisions to prescribe certain types of drug for patients and their judgements of patients' risk of coronary heart disease. All of these were idiographic analyses in that decision making by each GP was modelled separately. Judgement analysis (paramorphically) describes a subject's judgement or …
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The Effect of Various Weighting Schemes in The Scoring of Patient Management Problems in Medicine
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8026455.pdf: 2924836 bytes, checksum: d1556c3e00eea290506fa6ff08ab31bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 1980
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Assessing patient and caregiver intent to use mobile device videoconferencing for remote mechanically-ventilated patient management
… adult Assisted Ventilation Clinic (AVC) supports patients with neuromuscular disorders and spinal cord injuries and their caregivers at home, helping them avoid expensive emergency department visits, hospitalization, and unnecessary or excessive treatments. Mobile device videoconferencing provides …
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An investigation into the patient management protocols of selected cervical spine conditions by chiropractors in KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology in partial compliance with the requirements for a Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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An investigation of the effect of different methods of patient management on the outcome of lithium therapy.
Patients prescribed long-term lithium therapy require regular monitoring which can be carried out in a variety of management settings, the most common of which are by specialised lithium clinics (LC), general psychiatric out-patient clinics (OP) and general practice (GP). Whilst audits have been …
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The effect of the introduction of picture archive and communication systems (PACS) on patient radiation doses and patient management
… and Communications Systems (PACS), on both patient radiation doses and patient management. PACS is a relatively new technology which acquires, transmits, and stores radiological images digitally. This thesis investigates the doses which are required to produce radiographic images which are …
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Increasing compliance to a medical regimen with a juvenile diabetic
… to health care: a) rehabilitation, and b) patient management. Rehabilitation involves learning behaviors related to specific physical disabilities, for example stroke patients relearning walking skills, and amputees learning various self-care and vocational skills. Patient management …
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Child malnutrition mortality at St Barnabas Hospital is high - is it due to practices and attitudes of staff?: a study in a rural district hospital
… of Health introduced a protocol for in-patient management of children with severe malnutrition, with the aim of reducing case fatality rate below 10%. St Barnabas Hospital introduced the Eastern Cape protocol in August 2003. An evaluation was done in November 2003 to assess the …
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Community acquired bacteraemia : a prospective survey of 239 cases
… acquired bacteraemia to improve overall patient management. With this in mind it was decided to undertake a comprehensive prospective study of community acquired bacteraemia at Groote Schuur Hospital.
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Integrated Curriculum in Critical Care Clerkship for Medical Students: Impact on Professional Growth
… cohesive organizational thinking on disease management due to a fragmentation in learning. Vertically integrated curricula present basic sciences embedded in a clinical context and reinforce basic science concepts during clinical rotation, thus providing contextualized learning and enhancing …
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Familial hypercholesterolaemia - the Cape Town experience
This dissertation is a descriptive study of 1029 patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia attending a referral clinic for severe dyslipidaemia. The author was involved in patient management and clinical research over a period of almost 20 years. Information for the thesis was extracted from …
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Subtyping patients with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer type using cluster analysis
… study was to determine if distinct subgroups of patients with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDAT) could be identified using seven scales of the Cognitive Behavior Rating Scale (CBRS). Ward's method of cluster analysis was used to group 104 patients with a probable diagnosis of SDAT into …
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Enhancing health and energy efficiency through data-driven urban initiatives: a smart city approach
… learning algorithms are employed to improve patient management and their eventual outcomes. This is done by implementing a predictive analytics framework to identify various risk factors associated with respective medical conditions. The aim of the Smart Energy application is to analyze …
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The development, implementation and evaluation of a real-time PCR-based diagnostic service for viral causes of infectious intestinal disease
… alone. An accurate diagnosis can aid patient management, infection control procedures and reduce health care costs by preventing unnecessary treatments, testing for alternative causes and hospital stay. It also aids public health surveillance. At the start of the research described in …
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A study of symptom profile and clinical subtypes of delirium
… neuroanatomical endophenotypes, and patient management. This compendium reflects an integrated research plan executed over a five year period, employing detailed, standardized phenomenological assessments cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Motor activity studies were controlled and …
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Nipt Results Indicative of Maternal Neoplasms: Genetic Counselors' Preferences and Attitudes
… neoplasm screening is limited, and guidance for patient management is currently lacking. This challenges clinicians’ ability to counsel patients regarding the implications of these results, which often is the responsibility of a genetic counselor. Over three hundred board-eligible/certified …
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Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002
… refusal of treatment or transportation by patients referred to hospital under the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 have been noted. There is little documented about the knowledge and understanding of prehospital providers of the mental healthcare act, their responsibilities and the issues …
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