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Showing 1 to 20 of 421 for “"self-management"”.
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Patient expertise & self-management
Patient expertise and self-management are terms that have been co-popularized through the success of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program and Expert Patient Program. This review looks at the intersection of literature that focuses on both patient expertise and self-management. These concepts …
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Improving self-management in pregnancy
… chronic health conditions, can improve their self-management ability. Improved self-management practices in turn helped decrease healthcare utilization costs. Reviewed literature included subjects such as education, healthcare utilization, self-management, and pregnancy. The purpose of this …
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In-Patient Self-Management Diabetes Education
… diabetes program strives to provide diabetes self-management education to the in-patient with diabetes. The specific aim is to improve and standardize diabetes education for the inpatient with diabetes by June 2015. The microsystem is a medical surgical unit for patients 18 years and older who …
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Diabetes Self-Management Through Educational Intervention
… an educational intervention program (Diabetes Self-Management) in four phases to provide knowledge and skills to assist the diabetic patient in balancing diet, exercise, and insulin to acquire a lowered or normal glycosylated hemoglobin level.
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Correlates of Diabetes Self-Management Among Filipinos
… factors that influence effective diabetes self-management among a sample of Filipinos. Specific aims include:</p> <p>1. Describe the characteristics of a sample of Filipinos with pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes mellitus.<br /> 2. Examine the relationships between health literacy, …
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Spirituality and Symptom Self Management of Osteoarthritis
Healthcare providers need to identify holistic self-care techniques that are endorsed by patients as effective strategies for symptom management of osteoarthritis, which is the single most common cause of disability in older adults. Research in this area may direct the development of interventions …
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Improving diabetic self-management using Glucose Buddy.
Diabetes is a chronic condition that requires regular ongoing monitoring. This quantitative descriptive study looks at utilizing the application “Glucose Buddy” designed for diabetic patients, available on Apple devices, and identified if the application is easy to use for any type of user and the …
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Enabling scalable self-management for enterprise-scale systems
Implementing self-management for enterprise systems is difficult. First, the scale and complexity of such systems makes it hard to understand and interpret system behavior or worse, the root causes of certain behaviors. Second, it is not clear how the goals specified at a system-level translate to …
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Symptom Self-Management Across Settings Emphasizing Virtual Reality
Symptom management is a cornerstone of nursing practice. Symptoms are of clinical and research importance because they are the most common reason for which individuals seek healthcare. Rapid innovations in technology have made it possible to deliver interventions to alleviate a number of symptoms, …
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A model to evaluate diabetes self-management programmes
Self-management has emerged as an approach to enhance quality of care for patients suffering from long term conditions, and to control costs of health services. So far, however, the effects of this approach as adopted by the Saudi healthcare system in the early 1990s remain unclear. Although …
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Informatics Intervention for Self-Management of Pain after TBI
… informatics intervention for symptom self-management.
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The processes of self management in coping with stress
This research investigates the question of how people undertake health behavior change. It attempts to define what people experience and do during the process of changing health related aspects of their lives. The question of how people make health relevant changes in, their habits and actions has …
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Self-management of chronic pain by patients with arthritis
… reduce an individual's quality of life. Self-management approaches for arthritis pain relief are being emphasized and individuals needs a medley of pain management methods to select from to help manage arthritis pain; The Pain Management Inventory (PMI) was used in a descriptive design …
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Co-designing the inflammatory arthritis self-management (aiM) intervention.
Self-management is an integral part of care for people living with inflammatory arthritis. The benefits of self-management interventions for people living with long-term conditions are well established. To date, most of the inflammatory arthritis self-management interventions have targeted only …
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Towards Defence In Depth In Diabetes Glucose Self-Management
… blocks of a defence-in-depth approach to glucose self-management in insulin-dependent diabetes are investigated. Defence-in-depth is a concept where technical and administrative systems work in cohort to divert potentially dangerous conditions and events. In the context of insulin-dependent …
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The theory and practice of self-management in Algeria
… of this thesis is to evaluate the viability of a self-managed organisation in a socialist economy using Algeria as a test case. More specifically it concentrates on appraising how far the stated aims of the government's charter of 'Socialist Management of Enterprises' have been translated into …
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Epilepsy Self-Management in Older Adults: A Qualitative Study
… engage in both collaborative and independent management of their condition for the remainder of their lives. The treatment and care of those with epilepsy must therefore include not only medical interventions, which alone cannot cure the disorder or prevent the disability associated with it, …
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Application of data-driven technologies for asthma self-management
… the UK. Since there is no known cure for asthma, self-management is a key part of patient care; this involves detecting deterioration and taking appropriate action to maintain control and prevent the attack. To determine a patient’s asthma condition, traditional self-management action plans use …
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