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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"urgent care"”.
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Statistical methods for supporting urgent care delivery
Forecasting procedures were developed and implemented in an out-of-hours GP provider in the North East of England to ensure staffing levels were optimised, and server performance was investigated. Initial methods included linear regression to predict calls per day into a call centre, loess to …
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Urgent Care Nurse Data Capture: Impact on Diabetes Outcomes
… Health Record (EHR) usage and the numbers of Urgent Cares (UC) in the United States is rising. Some UCs care for sicker patients and are thus staffed by Registered Nurses (RNs). UC RNs may have a strong impact on one of the most deadly diseases in America, yet have been neglected in current …
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Antibiotic Stewardship Program Development in a Rural Urgent Care Clinic
… by viruses that antibiotics cannot treat. An urgent care clinic (UCC) in Upstate New York was audited for antibiotic prescribing for URIs. Fifty-five percent of patients who presented with a URI were prescribed an antibiotic, even when most did not meet treatment guidelines criteria.Aims: This …
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The CNL as a Systems Analyst- Standardizing Triage in Urgent Care
… led by a clinical nurse leader in an outpatient urgent care center to optimize efficacy and efficiency related to standardization of the triage process. After a microsystem assessment revealed excessive wait times for patients and variation in staff documentation in the electronic health record, …
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Antibiotic Resistance: Use of Delayed Prescriptions for Viral Syndromes in Urgent Care
… antibiotic use for viral syndromes in primary care settings. The overall purpose of this scholarly project is to explore delayed prescriptions used by providers in two urgent care settings, with a potential to reduce the amount of antibiotics consumed by patients for viral syndromes. These …
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Acute uncomplicated cystitis in an urgent care setting : to culture or not culture--a DNP project
… (Alijanov et al., 2020). In an urban urgent care setting without a standard practice guideline for the treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis, the providers prescribe a medication that is not first line recommendation. Purpose: The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice project …
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Improving Provider Knowledge on Melanoma Screening Using Video Education
… improvement (QI) project aimed to improve urgent care providers’knowledge of melanoma, the Self-Assessment of Melanoma Risk Score (SAMScore) Questionnaire, and their intent to utilize the SAMScore Questionnaire for targeted melanoma screening in the urgent care setting. Background: Melanoma …
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Evaluating changes to emergency and urgent healthcare in England
… undertaken during my fifteen year research career at the School for Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield. Whilst the services I evaluated varied in scope, my research forms a coherent body of work informing the evidence base on policy driven initiatives implemented …
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A Comparison of the Utilization of Health Services in the Presence or Absence of Prescriptive Drug Insurance in a Managed Care Environment
… identify differences in utilization of primary care providers, urgent care centers, emergency departments and hospitals. Using measures of central tendency to evaluate expenditures, utilization of the relatively lower-cost health services such as visits to the primary care provider and urgent …
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Social Determinants of Health and Health Confidence
… and health confidence level in adults receiving care at an urgent care center.</p> <p><strong>Background/Rationale: </strong>To improve overall health and reduce health inequities during a global pandemic and unprecedented rates of inflation, the relevancy and urgency of identifying how …
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Examining The Choice To Seek Non-Urgent Urinary Tract Infection Treatment At Emergency Departments
Problem statement: Non-urgent emergency department (ED) utilization leads to greater risk of ED overcrowding and potentially negative outcomes for patients. Increased understanding of why some patients continue to use EDs for non-urgent care despite the increasing availability of lower cost …
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Improved Communication for Safer Patient Care: The Implementation of SBAR
… of intradepartmental communication between Urgent Care Center (UCC) staff, through standardized SBAR patient hand-offs. The aim is to improve; (1) the consistency and clarity of patient hand-offs, (2) staff experience and satisfaction with communication during hand-offs, and (3) prevent …
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A Study of the Health Beliefs and Barriers to Care For the Medicaid Population
Despite the cost-reducing efforts of managed care, health care expenditures in the United States continue to be burdensome, resulting in services being cut to control costs, thus impacting all health care recipients. The patient population that often utilizes the health care system in a more …
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Understanding family violence assessment practices of pediatric emergency department nurses and physicians
… remains low among emergency department healthcare providers. The aim of this study was to use a theory-driven approach to understand the reasons why pediatric emergency department providers do not routinely assess for family violence, both child abuse and intimate partner violence. This is the …
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The impact of user charges on patient choice of healthcare services in Ireland
… choice to ascertain how user charges in healthcare impact on patient behaviour in Ireland. Quantitative data is collected from a subset of the population in walk-in Urgent Care Clinics and General Practitioner surgeries to assess their responses to user charges and whether user charges are a …
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Using an Importance-Performance Analysis of Summer Students in the Evaluation of Student Health Services.
… rates the importance students place on healthcare services and the performance of the SHS in delivering services (i.e., patient satisfaction).</p> <p>Based on mean scores, students reported high importance, high performance on urgent care, pharmacy and patient education. Contraception …
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Using Telemedicine To Optimize The Delivery Of Care In Patients With Liver Disease
… and death. Telemedicine has transformed health care by improving access, reducing cost, and increasing the quality of care. However, telemedicine has not been widely used to manage patients with CLD. This DNP project created a telemedicine protocol to manage patients with NASH, implemented the …
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A collaborative video-conferencing system for improving care during neonatal transport
The need for real-time telemedicine to support urgent care is growing. The primary focus of our work has been on improving the care provided to critically ill infants born at community hospitals who need to be transported to tertiary care centers for specialized neonatal treatment. Providing …
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Emergency Department use: Why do patients choose the Emergency Department for medical care and how much does it really cost?
… to understand Canadians' expectations of health care services and the costs of delivering care in the Emergency Department (ED) in order to continue to provide health care in a sustainable manner. Objectives: To examine the reasons patients present to the ED, and to conduct a cost analysis to …
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