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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"virtual care"”.
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Evaluation of a Virtual Care Program for Unattached Patients in Southeastern Ontario
Access to primary care is critical for delivering preventive and coordinated healthcare services. Individuals lacking a primary care provider often have increased healthcare needs and associated costs, utilizing the emergency department for routine medical needs. The implementation of virtual and …
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Virtual Care Navigation To Reduce Disparities And Improve Quality: A Pilot Program For Colorectal Cancer Screening
<p>Purpose: This DNP project piloted a virtual care navigation program for primary care patients inan urban population, aimed at improving compliance with colorectal screening and reducing disparities in access to care. Background: Despite the high prevalence and mortality, colorectal cancer …
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Choosing the Right Model of Care Together: Informing an Equitable, Patient-Oriented Decision Aid for In-Person vs Virtual Care of Pediatric Chronic Pain
… Pediatric chronic pain management can occur virtually or in-person, but youth with chronic pain and their families may not be involved in decisions about treatment delivery. Decision aids can supplement shared decision-making, a collaborative decision-making approach between patients and …
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Bridging the Gaps Between Screens: Can telehealth bring mental healthcare to those who need it?
… pandemic, the need for accessible mental healthcare continues to rise. While virtual care may seem like a simple solution to this access problem, resource, regulatory, and financial barriers can prevent those who most need care from connecting with mental health professionals. Via interviews …
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Applying a Health Equity Lens to Virtual Primary Care for Socially Vulnerable Groups During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In primary care, patients seek care for all their comorbidities, not just for a solitary, defining, major health condition. Making primary care available to all population segments helps maintain a community's or entire population's health. However, many disaster planning documents do not …
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Understanding Risks to Patient Safety from the Perspective of Nurse Practitioners Delivering Primary Health Care Using Telemedicine
… have expanded the availability and quality of virtual health care (VHC), with the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating telemedicine use. Telemedicine improved access, affordability, and safety by supporting physical distancing. However, the rapid shift from in-person care also introduced new patient …
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Enhancing Telehealth Use To Reduce No-Shows in a Rural Arizona Outpatient Clinic
… chronic disease management, and increased healthcare costs. Telemedicine offers a way to ease access barriers such as transportation and scheduling conflicts (Adepoju et al., 2022). However, provider buy-in is essential for successful adoption. Understanding how clinicians view telemedicine, …
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Data-driven healthcare via constraint learning and analytics
… from data and drive better decisions in healthcare. We propose novel approaches motivated by current methodological gaps, and we use analytics to tackle clinically-driven problems. This thesis develops methods and applied models to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice, with …
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Co-Developing Culturally Responsive Pre-Surgical Education for First Nation and Métis Hip and Knee Replacement Care in Saskatchewan
… and growing burden on individuals and the healthcare system. Arthritis encompasses over 100 inflammatory conditions, with osteoarthritis (OA) being the most common form, affecting approximately 4 million Canadians. Indigenous Peoples are 1.6 times more likely to have arthritis than non-Indigenous …
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Satisfaction of Individuals Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Gastroenterology Care Providers with Telephone Care
… and those who have limited access to specialized care. Telephone care (TC) could improve health care by increasing access to specialized care and decreasing the strain of travel and time to see a consultant. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic increased the usage of TC appointments in Canada …