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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"phone calls"”.
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Minimizing Inpatient Readmissions Through the Use of Discharge Phone Calls
<p>Discharge phone call is a new approach that many hospitals are utilizing to ensure a patient’s safe transition home. A study showed that 65 percent of patients said, during hospitalization, no one discussed about managing their care at home (Clark et al., 2005). Hospital reimbursements are based …
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A quality improvement project for post-COVID-19 patients through reminder phone calls
… administration building to conduct phone calls. Pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys were sent to the providers to determine the success of the intervention. Implications/Conclusion: Various project limitations impeded the ability to determine the success of the …
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Helping Diabetic Patients Reduce Their HbA1c by Follow-Up Phone Calls, Every Two Weeks
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This project focused on the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) essential of <em>Quality Improvement and Safety</em>. I used the CNL competency of using performance measures to assess and improve the delivery of evidence-based practices for this project. The primary care practice in …
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Improving Health Literacy of Colonoscopy Patients Through Reinforced Teaching of Bowel Preparation Using Pre-Procedure Phone Calls
… addresses poor health literacy by enhancing pre-calls to include prep instructions.</p> <p>Prior to implementation of the project, data was collected over a 3-month period to find the number of cancelled procedures due to non-compliance of prep instructions. This information will be used to …
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Minimizing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration
… mediation administration. It was determined phone calls interrupt a nurse the most during medication administration. Interruptions leave the medication administration process vulnerable to errors because it disrupts the nurse’s workflow and thought process. Because most pediatric medication …
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The Extent of Distraction of Cell Phone Conversations for Passengers in Simulated Flight
… passengers are forbidden from making cell phone calls during flights in the United States due to cellular electronic interference. However, some related research has demonstrated that the use of cell phones has little interference with avionics. Furthermore, any potential electronic …
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Analysis of email and phone queuing systems in a world-wide contact center network
… by companies to answer customer inquiries via phone calls or email. Customers often equate the service they are provided while interacting with a contact center to the quality of a company's product offering. Therefore, a major concern is what service level the company should choose to provide. …
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Social cognitive theory-based physical activity intervention delivered by non-supervised technology in persons with multiple sclerosis
… theory [SCT]) delivered by newsletters and telephone calls for increasing physical activity in persons with MS who were physically inactive and had middle levels of self-efficacy. The intervention group received SCT-based newsletters and phone calls whereas the control group received newsletters …
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Collaborating With the Unit Clerk to Decrease Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration on a Medical Surgical Unit
… the unit clerk of their role in triaging phone calls and call lights can decrease nurse interruptions during medication administration. When the unit clerk discerned which phone calls were emergent and non-emergent and fielded non-nurse necessary calls to appropriate staff, there was a 43% …
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Parental instruction regarding appropriate asthma management
… use of more non-routine medication, and fewer phone calls to the emergency room and the physician's office than those children whose parents did not receive the instruction. A secondary purpose was to determine if mothers who received the instruction would score higher on a knowledge posttest …
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Improving Pre-Operative Education Among Pediatric Tonsillectomy Patients
… A chart review revealed the number of repeat phone calls from the first period of February-April to second period of May-July increased by 48.4%. A root cause analysis showed that there is a lack of adequate education regarding post-operative care. Written education packets were designed to …
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Reducing Avoidable Interruptions During the Medication Administration Process
… medication errors by reducing the number of phone call and call light interruptions during the medication administration process.</p> <p>Methods: Lippitt’s Change Theory was used to address the objective of decreasing medication errors by reducing the amount of phone call interruptions during …
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The Efficacy of Overeaters Anonymous in Fostering Abstinence in Binge-Eating Disorder and Bulimia Nervosa
… time for prayer and meditation, and making phone calls to other members. The activities of binge eating and bulimic participants were also examined to determine whether or not statistically significant differences exist between these two populations. Results revealed the typical OA …
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Theoretical explanations for the Minsk II: Power, preferences, and interactions examined
… exhaustive negotiations are more productive than phone-calls.
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Improving exercise adoption: the effects of social support, personalized goal setting and feedback and prompting in a community walking program
Assessed the effects of frequency of prompting (phone calls once a week versus once every three weeks) and content of prompting (feedback and goal setting versus "touching base") in a walking program designed to meet ACSM's cardiovascular exercise goals. Survival analysis using six months of data …
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elphi: a business plan to streamline the mortgage lifecycle through blockchain
… communication channels, such as emails and phone calls. We offer a potential solution for this communication problem, leveraging DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) to create pre-set channels for those stakeholders to communicate and reconcile transactions instantly. We argue that by …
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Technology adoption in automotive product development
… that encompass navigation, digital media, phone calls, safety and other elements. These infotainment systems are based on componentry similar to smartphones or tablet computers. In contrast to tablet computers, the automotive infotainment systems have followed the typical automotive product …
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Structure and evolution of communication networks in organizations
… study three types of communication data--emails, phone calls, and meetings-in a modern IT firm. Using network descriptive statistics, we show how communication networks in an organization differ from random networks and other social networks. We also compare and contrast the three types of …
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Return of Aggregate Results in Biorepository Research: An Exploratory Study of Participant Perspectives and Preferences
… or websites rather than in-person interviews or phone calls. The results of this preliminary research suggest that individuals be consulted regarding preferences prior to formation of overarching policy regarding aggregate return, and indicate that further research with larger and more …
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Participants' Perceptions of Factors in Preventing Falls
… recommendations, and appreciation of volunteer phone calls. Based on these themes, program enhancements were recommended.</p>
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