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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"quality health care"”.
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Predicting global satisfaction ratings of quality health care among trauma patients: Testing a structural equation model
… satisfaction has been debated as an indicator of quality hospital care. It is debated in the literature as to whether or not patients can accurately judge technical quality of healthcare services. Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the study was to determine if patients’ perceptions of …
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Pathways to inhumane care : medical culture in a South African emergency unit
… patients and promotes their access to good quality health care, inhumane and abusive medical practices have, nevertheless, been documented internationally. A large and varied body of work documents multiple aspects of medical culture.
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Assessment of service provider preparedness and concerns in the process of implementing the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana : a study of the Upper West Region
This study focuses on assessing health provider preparedness in the move towards the implementation of national health insurance with specific reference to the Upper West Region. The paper uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to review the level of knowledge of health staff on the concept …
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The National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa : scaling up health care provision: the consumers' perspectives.
Globally, there are major shifts taking place in health care provision to achieve universal health coverage. In 2011, the South African Department of Health released a Green Paper outlining its vision for implementing a National Health Insurance (NHI). The NHI wants to improve the service provision …
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Job Satisfaction of Nurse Practitioners in Rural Health Care Settings
… have become an important part of the primary health care system. They provide quality health care in a productive and economical manner. These NPs have become a great asset to underserved areas including rural communities. However, attracting and retaining these health care professionals …
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A quality improvement training programme for health professionals in the Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia
A quality improvement training programme is important to address the challenges that the health professionals are facing in their quest for quality health care delivery. In Namibia, most health care facilities have not been yielding good results in response to patients’ health care needs. Health …
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Adapting the Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool for health care
… management, however applying this tool in health care organizations has been inhibited by language and underlying assumptions from product manufacturing. An adaptation of the LESAT specifically for health care is proposed. Review of the literature and special reports on health care are used …
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The relationship between informatics in the undergraduate nursing curricula and the preparation of nurses for practice
At a time when quality health care is increasingly dependent on the use of information and computer based technologies, Nursing Informatics, which encompasses the use of such technologies, is of increasing importance as it facilitates practitioners' access to current information on which to base …
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University of Zambia Clinic Electronic Medical Records Management System
… of Zambia clinic in an effort to ensure that quality health care is provided to the University of Zambia Community the clinic keeps a number of records about the demography, medical history, diagnosis and treatment of this community. All these records Eire kept in a manual system, this …
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University of Zambia Clinic Electronic Medical Records Management System
… of Zambia clinic in an effort to ensure that quality health care is provided to the University of Zambia Community the clinic keeps a number of records about the demography, medical history, diagnosis and treatment of this community. All these records Eire kept in a manual system, this …
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A descriptive analysis of the 1992 active-duty physician asset: with comparisons to the Kaiser-Permanente physician staff model data
… of declining military budgets, DoD is reducing health care costs while insuring available, accessible, and quality health care. One area which impacts these factors is physician staffing levels. The problem for DoD is one of maintaining a cadre of active-duty physicians, which is generally based …
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Examining first-semester nursing students' perceptions about their experience transitioning to nursing courses: a qualitative study
Nursing education is vital to providing high quality health care to the community. Transitioning from prerequisite classes to nursing classes can be very stressful for some students. The study sought to understand the experience, examine challenges, and recognize the support provided for first …
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A Study of Unionization in the Field of Nursing
… changes have occurred in the nursing area of health care during the past decades. Both nurses and nursing health care administrators need a perspective from which future attitudes and procedures can be charted. This overview of the evolution of nurse labor-management relationships provides …
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Understanding the Role of Planning in a Case Study of the Amish Community in Webster County, Missouri
… relating to the Amish; and the provision of quality health care to all county residents. Planners can gain knowledge of the special needs of such a community and adopt strategies including comprehensive plans to determine methods for addressing these needs. Alternatives such as zoning, …
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The Development of a New Model for Assessing African-American Spirituality in Palliative Care
… interventions leading to concerns about the quality of health care in general and palliative care in particular for this population. Acknowledging patient preferences are essential in administering quality health care especially when a patient's condition is terminal. But when …
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DISCUSSING THE RACIAL ASSOCIATION WITH BLACK MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC INTELLECTUALISM IN PROVIDING EQUITABLE HEALTHCARE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
Social determinants of health have become a bit of a buzzword in today’s discussion of healthcare inequities. Social determinants of health are broadly defined as conditions in the places where people live, learn, work and play that affect a wide range of health and quality-of-life risks and …
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The Effect of Athletic Training Education Competency-Based Approach on Asthma Specific Education Domains
… necessary to assure their patients the highest quality health care. Evidence suggests that asthma prevalence in the athletic population ranges between 15-20% of all athletes. The objective of this investigation was to determine the knowledge of Athletic Trainers who recently graduated (within 1 …
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Exploring the journey to maternal death: gender and human rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape province, South Africa
… which result from delay in seeking maternity care and failure to attend maternity care during pregnancy. A gender approach was used to identify and analyse inequalities that arise from belonging to one sex or from unequal power relations between sexes and how these impact on women accessing …
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Medication concepts, records, and lists in electronic medical record systems
… many functions vital for the provision of quality health care. A controlled medication terminology provides the foundation for decision support services, such as duplication checking, allergy checking, and drug-drug interaction alerts. Clever modeling of medication records makes it easy to …
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