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Diagnosis based specialist identification in the hospital
… essential information about which providers have the skills needed to carry out key procedures or make critical judgments. They are useful for training and staffing and provide confidence to patients that their providers have the experience needed to address their problems. This work evaluates how …
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Differentiating the hospital supply chain for enhanced performance
This thesis determines how to design the supply chain policies in a hospital for the wide array of products that exist there. This research was done through interviewing staff and analyzing data of two hospitals implementing automated point of use systems. This thesis argues that a hospital needs …
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Exploration of care continuity during the hospital discharge process
Background Communication regarding medicines at hospital discharge via discharge summaries is notoriously poor and negatively impacts on patient care. With the process being dependant on the quality of patient records during admission, junior doctors who write them and General Practitioners (GPs) …
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Institutional expansion, community relations, and the hospital next door
Hospitals play many roles in a city: alternately, they may be caretakers of the sick, economic engines, intellectual hubs, major employers, and neighbors. This last role has evolved greatly over the last 45 years. The relationship between hospitals and the communities in which they are located has …
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A study of the hospital utilization of clinical laboratory tests
Thesis. 1979. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Perceptions of change to the hospital nurse's role: a gounded theory.
This investigation set out to explore the changes affecting the role of the hospital nurse from the perspectives of nurses and doctors working on, and patients receiving treatment in, hospital wards. The aim was to examine their perceptions through qualitative methodology using the systematic …
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Application of the Single Information Flow Concept to the Hospital Industry
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T23:09:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6915355.pdf: 9325670 bytes, checksum: a7d127ec9d8a5a25bbc59e315828181b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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CHNA: The Role of the Hospital in Addressing Specific Community Health Needs
<p>The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) added a requirement for nonprofit hospitals to keep their tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue System Code 501(c) 3. This code requires all nonprofit hospitals to complete Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) reports every three …
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Tetraplegia : the psychosocial problems encountered by black patients once discharged from the hospital
The purpose of this study was to explore the psychosocial problems encountered by Black patients with tetralpegia once discharged from the hospital. Phenomenology as a research strategy was used with the aim of understanding the worldview of patients. The medical aspects of spinal cord injury were …
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Antecedents of Competitive Advantage and Position: A Marketer's View of the Hospital Industry
With the increased diversification of firms, strategy is conceived at different levels, viz. corporate, business and functional. These levels are inter-related, and each has a specific role to play in a firm's struggle for success. While competitive advantage and position are issues typically …
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The effectiveness of methods of videotape instruction with diabetic teaching in the hospital
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of diabetic teaching using methods of videotape instruction in the hospital. The study focused on measuring the amount of knowledge gained between diabetic patients who viewed a videotape program with and without the presence of a health …
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The effect of soothing music on neonatal behavioural states in the hospital newborn nursery
This study was designed to test the effect of soothing music on the number of high arousal neonatal behavioural states and the frequency of behavioural state change within the hospital newborn nursery. The theoretical framework for this study was drawn from theories related to newborn behavioural …
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What obesity interventions, if any, are provided by paediatric nurses in the hospital setting?
BACKGROUND The prevalence of childhood obesity in New Zealand (NZ) is increasing at an alarming rate and is implicated in the onset of serious co-morbidities of both a physical and psychological nature. Research shows overweight and obese children are more likely to stay overweight into adulthood. …
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A Bronchiolitis Study: The Overuse of Bronchiolitis Therapies in Children Admitted into the Hospital
… is not treated with antibiotics, but rather with proper medical examination and other procedures. Chest radiographs, steroids, and certain bronchodilators are considered ineffective treatments. This study identified the amount of ineffective procedures being used in infants admitted into …
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The parents' experience of living in the hospital with their sick infant : a phenomenological study
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the essential structure of the lived experience of what it was to be a resident parent on the ward in a public hospital with a sick infant. Many studies have highlighted both benefits and problems associated with the concept of parental …
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The Effect Of Job Strain In The Hospital Environment: Applying Orem's Theory Of Self Care
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the causal relationships between job strain, the practice environment and the use of coping skills in order to assist in the prediction of nurses who are at risk for voluntary turnover. It was conducted at the level of the individual nurse employee in …
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The hospital patient service in transition: A study of the development of totality of care
… was developed in Hong Kong to enhance public hospital services. The development of this concept aimed to resolve two major concerns about patient care delivery. First, for historical reasons, there were differences among public hospitals in their emphases on the scientific medicine and social …
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