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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"patient-initiated"”.
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Improving Staff Responsiveness to Patient-Initiated Call Lights
… (CNL) project involves the nursing staff and patients of a 23-bed post-surgical medical-surgical nursing unit at a Bay Area community hospital. The goal of this project was to improve patient care, patient satisfaction and staff workflow. Assessment of the microsytem revealed that from July …
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An Exploration into Factors Contributing to Patient-Initiated Termination from Addiction Treatment Programs by Opioid-Dependent Persons
Patient-initiated termination, a significant and long-standing problem in the field of addiction treatment, is linked to the effectiveness of addiction treatment. The literature revealed several important points. First, treatment outcomes are positively correlated with the length of time spent in …
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The development and evaluation of a self-monitoring and patient-initiated follow-up service for people with rheumatoid or psoriatic arthritis on methotrexate
… and evaluation of a self-monitoring and patient-initiated follow-up service for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or psoriatic arthritis (PsA) on methotrexate. Using a mixed methods approach including a randomised controlled trial (RCT) and qualitative semi-structured interviews. The …
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An exploration of how the timing of colostomy following spinal cord injury impacts on the individual.
… more about individuals’ experiences and the patient-initiated phenomenon. Starting with an appraisal of the Wider Landscape in which the phenomenon emerged, the research journey was made using constructivist Grounded Theory. Four major categories were discovered. ‘Experiences of Loss’ were …
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Three essays on physician pricing
… the same type of costs for different types of patients. The second aspect of physician pricing investigated here is physicians’ ability to change the name of a service in response to a fee cap without actually changing the price of the service. The third aspect investigated in this dissertation …
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Spirituality and osteopathy: a practitioners' views
… as practitioners; their capacity to care for patients; and the integration of spiritual practices such as private prayer, meditation and intuition into treatment. Participants played a supportive role in patient-initiated conversations about spirituality but differed as to whether they thought …
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Development and Implementation of a Violence Risk Assessment Tool
… was to provide a means to effectively assess patients as they are admitted to the hospitals and to effectively communicate a patient’s violent tendencies within the healthcare setting. Workplace violence is a serious problem that affects all healthcare professionals. Although serious assaults …
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Adult Play and its Relations to the Working Alliance and Psychosocial Dysfunction in Short-Term Psychotherapy
… “as if” thinking. In addition to considering how patients exhibit playfulness in psychotherapy, some literature suggests that therapists use play in an effort to soften patients’ defenses and disrupt rigid narratives. In the present study, 14 short-term (20 sessions) alliance-focused adult …
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The interaction between HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: a model-based evaluation
… in HIV incidence could be achieved by promoting patient-initiated treatment of genital herpes, by addressing rising levels of drug resistance in gonococcal isolates, and by encouraging prompt health seeking for STIs. Concurrent partnerships are a major factor driving HIV transmission, accounting …
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Computational Modelling and Treatment Optimization of Acute Endovascular and Respiratory Conditions
… to disrupted oscillations, an analogue for patient‐initiated breaths. AAA is a swelling in the lower portion of the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body. The incidence of this potentially fatal condition is 5-10 cases per 100,000 in the U.S.. The preferred treatment for AAA is …
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The role of osteopaths in the recognition of melanoma : attitudes, knowledge and practices in melanoma screening within the osteopathic community
… care practitioners, who can often examine a patient with the removal of the outer layers of clothing. As primary practitioners, they have a duty to provide for the general health of their patients, whilst the removal of clothing also allows an opportunity for non-invasive screening. As such, …