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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"user involvement"”.
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User involvement and improving quality of health and social care.
… disorders and therapy services; patient involvement in decision making; clinical practice; multi-disciplinary working and innovative service provision. Finally, the originality of the work is considered and identified as being with regard to: the research methods developed; the novel …
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Developing a dialogue on health: user involvement in health and health services
… transferring from professionals towards the users of services. As a result, user involvement has come to form a central element of government policy on public services, and health in particular, with a series of specific policy commitments to give users a stronger voice and to involve them in …
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Women, office work and computerisation : case studies in user-involvement during systems development.
This thesis examines the area of user-involvement in the development of computerised office information systems, with particular reference to gender relations and to initiatives in 'Human-Centred' systems design. it is based on a review of literature in computer science and in social science, and …
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Exploration of user involvement and collaboration in a co-design project : a case study
… design (co-design) is an approach that includes ‘users’ in the design process. This approach is growing in popularity amongst companies seeking to develop a competitive advantage in the field of outdoor clothing and equipment. Health research is steadily developing a substantial evidence base of …
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Women's Voices: an anlysis of views on service user involvement in mental health care
… emphasises the necessity to involve service users in aspects of service planning, practice and evaluation. There is also a growing self-organised user movement, demanding greater and more sophisticated levels of such participation. Despite this apparent consensus between policy makers and …
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Strengthening maternity service user involvement in midwifery clinical skills education through co-design of a mobile app.
Background: Service user involvement in education has become fundamental in professional, statutory and regulatory bodies responsible for the education of health and social care professionals. Where there are various examples of service user involvement across nursing, medicine and social work …
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Designing a Novel Support System for Feeding Pumps - A Case Study in User Involvement in Medical Design
… medical device developers do not incorporate user-centered design methods when they design their products. One study found that only one in eleven medical device manufacturers involved users in their design process (Money et al., 2011). One reason that the companies did not involve users was …
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Determinants of Early-stage User Involvement (EUI) in User Need Identification for Health Apps: An Exploratory Study
… deliver intended impact. Research shows that low user adherence — a primary barrier to successful adoption — is linked to insufficient perceived value, which stems from a mismatch between the app’s usefulness envisaged by developers and that experienced by users (patients, caregivers, and …
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Towards a multi-view model of quality in primary health care: User involvement in the North West region of England
… declaration of partnership at all levels with user involvement at its centre. Clinical Governance has been introduced as the mechanism to deliver quality, by encouraging professional accountability through one strategic direction. However some argue that this emphasis on clinical quality has …
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Sanktionerat motstånd : Brukarinflytande som fenomen och praktik
The roots of the idea of user involvement within social services can be found in the efforts of the rising service user movement in the 1960s and 70s. Today the concept of “service user involvement” has been adopted by the state and is widespread within political rhetoric’s as well as in human …
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Analysis of the impact of user interaction on prototyping productivity during product development
User involvement has been widely supported by both researchers and management as a critical factor in new product design (Cooper and Kleinshmidt, 1990; Foxall and Johnston 1987; Kanter, 1988; Parkinson, 1982; Rothwell et al., 1974; von Hippel, 1988). However, because of the time consuming and …
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A mechanism for activating end-user learning and participation in office automation
This thesis is about 'User Involvement', a theme that is becoming the core of a growing body of research in the area of systems development and implementation. Although the value of user involvement in facilitating change is generally accepted, and has been specifically advocated by many recent …
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The participation of stroke survivors in service development and research: an ethnographic study
… the thesis considers the implicit claims of user involvement policy that involving the public in the work of professionals will lead to patient empowerment, creation of new forms of knowledge, and a transformation of unequal relations between patients and professionals.<br/><br/>In the TSSP, …
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Becoming part of behind the scenes: patients' experiences of co-learning with primary health care teams.
Current debates about the involvement of health service users in service delivery, research and education focus on the purpose of their involvement, the methods of their involvement, barriers to their involvement and the impact of their involvement. There is little reported about the experience of …
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Information system success and its association with user attitude, belief and involvement
… The second, to investigate the influence of user variables, specifically attitude, belief and levels of user involvement, on information system success. Although researchers agree that the aggregate organisational benefit derived from an information system is the best measure of success, no …
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Drinking from the well : developing social work practice with service users and carers
… has advanced understanding in regard to the involvement of service users and carers in important aspects of research, policy and education. The core theme I elicit in this corpus of work centres on developing social work practice with service users and carers based on partnership and …
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