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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"rural hospital"”.
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High rates of undiagnosed hypoalbuminaemia in orthopaedic trauma patients at a rural hospital
… of data collected prospectively at a regional hospital serving primarily a rural population in South Africa. Results Two hundred ninety-five patients were included in the study. Twenty-nine per cent of the cohort was found to have hypoalbuminaemia. Femur neck fractures (p < 0.001), …
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How do patients view continuity of care in a rural hospital with significant medical staff turnover?
… relational (Kristjansson et al., 2013). Small rural hospitals in New Zealand are hard to staff with medical physicians and this poses a challenge to the health sector. Eighty percent of registered physicians practice in urban centres, raising a significant concern to rural areas being able to …
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An Exploration of Leadership Experiences and Challenges of Junior Female Managers in a Rural Hospital Environment, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… of junior female managers at Tshilidzini Hospital in Vhembe District in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Qualitative method was used because it enabled the researcher to gain in-depth information about the challenges and experiences of junior female managers at Tshilidzini Hospital. This …
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Psychosocial distress associated with lived experiences of teenage mothers in a selected rural hospital in Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Vhembe District in Limpopo province
… experiences of teenage mothers in Malamulele rural hospital in Collins Chabane Local Municipality, Vhembe District in Limpopo province. The study adopted a qualitative phenomenological research strategy as well as a descriptive phenomenological research design. The population of the study were …
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An examination of the adoption of electronic medical records by rural hospital nurses through the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology lens
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Communication Arts and Sciences - Media and Information Studies, 2010
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Cultural issues in the treatment of hospitalised, malnourished children : an exploratory-descriptive study of the attitudes of health professionals and mothers in a rural hospital setting
… maintenance of good health in communities. In hospitals, professionals are constantly faced with medication non-compliance and other defaulting behaviour by health consumers or patients due to lack of their sensitivity towards cultural issues. It is true that most Africans are faced with a …
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Ethical imperative to health and epistemological distance : rural patients and advanced practice registered nurses
Rural populations have increased mortality, lower life expectancy, and less access to specialty care. Rural health disparities result from geographic, social, and epistemological barriers. In the wake of rural hospital closures, rural patients necessarily seek care from non-rural hospitals. These …
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Delirium in the hospitalized elderly: Clinical indicators found in medical records
… the most significant complications affecting the hospitalized elderly today. The purpose of this descriptive retrospective chart review was to determine if medical records contain sufficient evidence to identify elderly patients who were at risk for developing delirium within 72 hours of hospital …
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HITEQI-A framework to implement health information technology-enabled quality improvement.
… to provide critical care to patients at a rural hospital. The service requires the implementation of an advanced telemedicine technology. Careful consideration of change management (CM) can help mitigate the high failure rate associated with IT implementation and adoption. The HITEQI …
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Essays in health economics and public policy
… analyze the role of healthcare institutions in rural economies and evaluate how access to health insurance for low-income individuals impacts mortality and risky behavior. In Chapter 1, I study the local economic impacts of rural hospital closures in the United States. The analysis begins with a …
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SURVIVING THEIR GRIP: EXAMINING MEDICAL FORENSIC CASES OF NON-FATAL STRANGULATION
… 1396 medical forensic examination records from a rural hospital and associated child advocacy center spanning January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2023, the research addresses five core topics: (1) the prevalence and temporal changes in NFS, (2) the relationships between patient, perpetrator, and …
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Factors Associated with Initiation of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Rural Heart Failure Patients
… cardiac rehabilitation centers, thus putting rural heart failure patients at a disadvantage. The purpose of the current study was to delineate how rural heart failure patients were referred to cardiac rehabilitation from an inpatient setting, to determine what factors were associated with …
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An adaptive physiology-aware communication framework for distributed medical cyber physical systems
… of patient care, especially in remote rural areas, is essential. While the doctor to patient ratio in the United States is 30 to 10,000 in large metropolitan areas, it is only 5 to 10,000 in most rural areas; and the highest death rates are often found in the most rural counties. Use of …
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An Integrated Delivery Model For Providing On-Site and Remote Radiology Services To Rural Midwest Hospitals
… delivery for providing radiology services to rural Midwest hospitals. A key priority was to investigate a model of delivery that ensured radiology services were available to rural Midwest hospital patients, similar to the level of quality and value patients could receive by traveling to larger …
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Rural internship job preferences of final year medical students in South Africa: a discrete choice experiment
… workforce is vital however the unpopularity of rural medical practice results in widening healthcare inequalities between urban and rural areas. This study determined the heterogeneity in valuations for rural facility attributes by final year medical students at one South African public …
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Clinical Decision Making of Rural Novice Nurses
… decision making by the novice nurse in a rural hospital setting. Interviews were guided by the following research questions: What cues were used by novice rural registered nurses in order to make clinical decisions? What were the sources of feedback which influenced subsequent decision …
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Improving access to surgery in low- and middle-income countries through improved emergency and essential surgical care provision at district hospitals
… population resides within 2-hours of a district hospital equipped with basic surgical capabilities. Improving access to emergency and essential surgical care at these district hospitals could reduce morbidity and mortality related to surgical conditions. However, detailed knowledge of the …
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Predictors of condom use among young women: AIDS-related knowledge, AIDS vulnerability, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, contraceptive choice, risk behaviors
… of sexually transmitted diseases and from a rural hospital maternity unit. The mean age was 20.5 years. The young women completed the questionnaires after being informed verbally and in writing about the purpose and the voluntary nature of the study. Pearson's product moment correlation was …
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Isothermal Nucleic Acid Assays for the Detection of HIV Drug Resistance and Sickle Cell Disease in Low-Resource Settings
… HIV-1 drug resistance at a low cost and at a rural hospital laboratory. The second part of this thesis work focused on point-of-care detection of sickle cell disease (SCD). SCD is a common, life-threatening disorder caused by a point mutation in the β-globin gene. Early diagnosis through …
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