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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"quality of health"”.
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User involvement and improving quality of health and social care.
The aims of the work presented have been to: i) extend knowledge of the social interactions which affect health and social care delivery; and ii) improve the quality of health and social care through an increased understanding of patients’/clients’ needs and factors which influence professionals’ …
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The reliability and validity of adverse-event measures of the quality of health care
The quality of healthcare is increasingly the subject of scrutiny by a range of stakeholders, including healthcare provider organisations, health professionals and their representative bodies, healthcare purchasers and funders, policy makers and national governments, patients and users of health …
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The effect of incongruity on quality of health information systems : Bama, Nigeria PHC case study
… for collection and processing is imperative. In health care organisations, involved with people and life, this is even of greater significance, in many instances allowable margin of error is narrow and can be devastating.Accurate and reliable information in clinical care for example cannot be …
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What are physicians' perceptions of proposed federalized healthcare and how do they feel it will impact the quality of health care?
The purpose of the study was to examine physicians' opinions of a federalized health care system as well as the effect federalized health care will have on the quality of patient care provided by physicians. A survey was randomly administrated to physicians from across the United States. The survey …
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Perceptions on the impact of nurses' strikes on nurses, the nursing profession and on quality of health care in KwaZulu-Natal Province
The aim of this study was to pursue an exploratory, descriptive case study to investigate perceptions on the impact of nurses' strikes on nurses, the nursing profession and on the quality of health care. Other aspects of the strike phenomenon that were investigated included the issues of job …
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An Examination of African Americans' Utilization of Health Care
… examined the relationship between perceptions of discrimination, social support, quality of health care received, and utilization of health care services among African Americans. Data was analyzed from 99 African American respondents that completed either an online or paper questionnaire. The …
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Adherence to radiation therapy among cervical cancer patients at cancer diseases hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.
… study therefore sought to investigate the levels of adherence and factors influencing adherence to radiation therapy among cervical cancer patients being treated at Cancer Diseases Hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study design was used, 142 patients were selected from the …
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Adherence to radiation therapy among cervical cancer patients at cancer diseases hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.
… study therefore sought to investigate the levels of adherence and factors influencing adherence to radiation therapy among cervical cancer patients being treated at Cancer Diseases Hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study design was used, 142 patients were selected from the …
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Assessing the Impact of Electronic Health Record Systems Implementation on Hospital Patient Perceptions of Care
<p>The delivery of health care services has been impacted by advances in Knowledge Management Information Systems (KMIS) and Information Technology (IT). The literature reveals that Electronic Health Records Systems (EHRs) are a comprehensive KMIS. There is a wide recognition in the body of …
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Soft systems approach to information problems at the structural level of health care
… the need for improved methods that measure quality in health care. Elements of structure, process, and outcome need to be identified, defined, and monitored in order to assess quality of health care. Systems theory and methodology have been applied to a broad spectrum of health care …
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Should Hospitals and Managed Care Organizations Compete for the Health of It
… empirical research uses data from the population of inpatient Medicare hospitalization occurrences in Florida during 1995. Seventeen diagnoses are selected and examined using patient discharge data from this state. Measures of local competition, including Herfindahl indices as measures of hospital …
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Community Health Needs Assessment and American Hospital Association
<p>The purpose of this analysis is to examine the effect of the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) as established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This includes an analysis of the implementation process and the intervention development. The analysis includes five …
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The impact of information technology upon primary health care in Great Britain
This is a study of the impact of information technology on health care in Great Britain. Its major aim is to identify means by which information technology may improve the quality of health care in specific areas within the health services.The study concentrated upon general practice and was split …
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Effects Of Managed Care On The Health And Health-Care Of The Non-Elderly With Diabetes
<p>This dissertation attempts to examine the quality effect of managed care plans (as compared with traditional fee-for-service plans, or FFS) on the health outcome and health care use of patients with diabetes. As the number of diabetics is growing rapidly with many of them are relying on managed …
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The Effects of Foreign Aid on Government Policies: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses
… on our main result. We consider two variants of the model depending upon whether the recipient can or cannot have access to international borrowing. In the case without international borrowing, when domestic investment is exogenous, optimal tariff is zero. In contrast, when domestic investment …
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Factors associated with cost sharing for the users of government health facilities in Tanzania: The case study of Dar es Salaam city municipal hospitals
… with the cost sharing system in government health facilities. Cost sharing has been in operation in Tanzania since 1993. studies from Tanzania and other African countries show that free services offered were not of good quality (Mwabu and Wang'ombe, 1995; MoH, 1994; Stanton and Clemence, …
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SECONDARY PREVENTION MEASURES FOR CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
… coronary artery disease (CAD), has long been one of the leading causes of death in the US. In order to reduce the morbidity and mortality from CAD, secondary prevention practice guidelines have been developed by the major cardiovascular societies in the US and abroad to provide a benchmark for the …
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The evolution of and trends in mobile health : a case study of its application to diabetes
The escalating costs of healthcare have created an urgent need to develop innovative solutions that can improve the quality of healthcare delivered and quality of health outcomes. This thesis explores the role that smartphones can play in creating innovative solutions to help meet these goals. The …
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Motivation to Participate in Health Advocacy and Health Services: An evaluation of Advocacy for Better Health
This study utilized the theory of planned behavior to investigate motivations for participating in health advocacy initiatives in Uganda. This study sought to uncover why participants choose to engage in health systems advocacy to evaluate the Advocacy for Better Health intervention. A household …
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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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