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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"patient-focused"”.
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The Nature and Meaning of Patient Focused Records in Community Pharmacy
… Phase two involved depth interviews with three patient representatives and fifteen members of a multidisciplinary team who interface with community pharmacies to explore their experiences and expectations of community pharmacists’ record keeping practice. Data were analysed thematically. Viewing …
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Exploring whether the needs of dying patients in private sector hospitals are being met
… into the situation with regard to dying patients in our own private sector hospitals was needed. The objectives were to ascertain whether patient and family needs are met as a means of an index of quality of care and to identify domains of care where improvement is needed most. The …
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Data-driven Analysis of Clinical Trials
… (BDA), balancing FDA safety standards with patient needs. This method provides a quantitative way to consider both the patient’s perspective and the disease’s impact. The second study uses machine learning models to predict how long clinical trials will take. By analyzing a large dataset, it …
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Optimising Healthcare Data Flows and Interoperability: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities in NHS Wales
… achieve seamless data integration and improved patient outcomes. The research contributes to the ongoing digital transformation efforts within NHS Wales, aligning with broader NHS and UK Government strategies to create a more connected, patient-focused healthcare system.
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Cultural Competency in Healthcare Policy: Pursuing Elder, African-American Diabetics as Stakeholders in Successful Treatment
… into the discussion using focus groups. The patient participants then suggested providers they believed to be "successful" in their care who were then interviewed. The analysis suggests that where patient/ provider communication has been peripheral that care and perception of care and patient …
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Improving Pharmacy-Led Smoking Cessation Practices at a Federally Qualified Health Center
… interventions stand to positively impact patient health. Pharmacists’ effectiveness in multifaceted roles, including membership in multidisciplinary healthcare teams, disease factor recognition, and patient-focused recommendations, places them in an advantageous position to deliver tobacco …
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Convergence of eco-system technologies : potential for hybrid electronic health record (EHR) systems combining distributed ledgers and the Internet of Medical Things towards delivering value-based Healthcare
… to increasing their productivity. Prioritizing a patient-focused strategy during implementation of EHRs forces providers to implement systems that are more interoperable. A system engineering approach was adopted to guide the development and valuation of candidate architectures from Stakeholder …
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The Perceptions of Shared Medical Appointments among Health Care Workers at Parkland Hospital's Community Oriented Primary Care Clinics
… are a novel way of delivering health care to patients in a group setting. Past research regarding SMA quality improvement have always been patient focused. There is a great deal in the literature that shows that patients perceive SMAs favorably and that patients experience better health …
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Client/Therapist Feedback and the Role of the Alliance on Psychotherapy Outcomes
<p>Through a system of patient-focused outcomes research which has employed a quality assurance system for tracking client progress in therapy, there has been consistent evidence that utilizing the system to identify those who are not responding to treatment and warning their therapist about the …
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Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging - an exploration of physiotherapists' interests and use in practice
… motivation to use ultrasound - improving patient focused care 4. Quality assurance strategies 5. Application of biopsychosocial model These themes revealed links between physiotherapists’ core skills, knowledge and professional experiences that align well to the requirements of MSKUSI. …
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Exploring leadership and research in nurse practitioner roles across Australia and Ireland: A mixed-methods study
… in transforming healthcare delivery for patient populations. Research is perceived by Nurse Practitioners in the traditional sense, of generating new knowledge, and they do not value the research work they do. Leadership and Research in the Nurse Practitioner role is similar in Ireland …
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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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An exploration of consultation skills in community pharmacists
… from compounding and dispensing to providing patient focused services which require more patient interaction. Previous research has described pharmacist consultation skills as not optimal or patient centred. The aim of the thesis was to add an in depth understanding about the possible reasons …
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The development of specialisation in diagnostic radiography : concepts, contexts and implications
… higher status of technology has developed over patient-centredness; the impact of the working relationship between radiology and diagnostic radiography on this development; the relationship between gender and the nature of occupation in the development of diagnostic radiography.</p> …
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Tinkering with Food and Family: Striving for Good Care in an Eating Disorder Treatment Centre in Italy
… with anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Drawing on patient-focused anthropological accounts of eating disorders as ‘technologies of the self’, and on existing ethnographic works that have highlighted the failures of eating disorder treatment in other countries, the thesis makes a case for a study of …
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An Interpretive Phenomenological Exploration of Quality of Life Issues in Autologous Blood Cell Transplant Recipients
… cancers and some solid tumours. The number of patients who are long term survivors and free of disease following this treatment is growing rapidly. To enable nurses and health care workers to provide optimal supportive care for these patients, an understanding of how the transplant has affected …
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Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management
… the capabilities and responsibilities of both patients and providers. Influenced by health IT, concepts like patient-centered care, meaningful use, and patient empowerment are commonplace in the healthcare system. As the popularity of personal health records increases, medical providers, …
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What are the barriers and enablers to using the focus charting format in the hospital setting?
… in providing safe and effective healthcare to patients. In a review of nursing documentation at a large hospital in New Zealand, it was noted that there was sparse patient focused information and a fragmentation of the nursing process. A Nursing Practice Development (NPD) team set up a project …
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A theoretical exploration of hospital clinical pharmacists' perceptions, experiences and behavioural determinants in relation to provision of optimal and suboptimal pharmaceutical care.
Pharmaceutical care describes a range of patient-focused activities delivered by pharmacists. The activities aim to optimise medicines use for patients and to reduce harm from adverse events with medicines. This study was conducted in an NHS Scotland organisation, where the clinical pharmacy …
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Understanding the supportive care needs of glioma patients and their relatives: a qualitative longitudinal study
… is a rare cancer but has a devastating impact on patients and their families. In Scotland each year, around 450 people are diagnosed with glioma. Prognosis is generally poor and treatment is essentially palliative. There is a growing recognition that non-clinical aspects of care for both patients …
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