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Regional Health Planning (8):
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Regional Health Planning
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Claire Bradford, project director at SHAPE (the Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation iniatitive), outlines the many benefits available to estates and facilities teams via the web-enabled, evidence-based application--which "informs and supports the strategic planning of serv...
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PMID: 21961389
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To deliver rapid isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP) drug susceptibility testing (DST) close to the patient, we designed a decentralisation process for the microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay in Peru and evaluated its reliability.
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PMID: 21219684
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The authors describe the development of an effort by 21 hospitals and 2 academic institutions in a metropolitan area to strengthen the diffusion of evidence-based practice in their organizations. This has been accomplished by providing collaborative training, mentoring, and support for direct-care R...
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PMID: 21157238
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Healthcare informatics : the business magazine for information and communication systems (27)11 2010
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As states move forward in establishing health information exchanges (HIEs), many are looking to New York State for guidance. New York, which got an early start in building a data exchange program, has been successful in securing private investments to supplement its public funds. It has also establi...
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PMID: 20666175
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We provide a data-based tool that is readily available, and that district and facility managers can use to calculate their annual steady-state HIV testing, CD4 testing and HAART initiation requirements. These calculated values can be used for local and regional planning and to assess and improve cur...
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PMID: 20822598
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The Health service journal (120)6211 2010
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Our findings suggest that pay-for-participation may be a viable strategy to promote quality improvement in physician practices. However, absent continuing reinforcement, it is uncertain if such programs can lead to sustained quality improvement activities....
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PMID: 20521903
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The federal government is creating a stripped-down version of the nationwide health information network to aid the meaningful use program. What does it mean for HIEs?
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PMID: 20614700
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Federal dollars are spurring efforts for health information exchange, but to say there is more than one approach is an understatement. Providers and payers are taking local, state, regional, and federal routes in search of connected healthcare.
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PMID: 20614701
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We evaluate three alternative organizational models that may expand access to high-quality critical care: tiered regionalization, intensive care unit telemedicine, and quality improvement through regional outreach. These models share a potential to increase survival and reduce costs. Yet there are a...
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PMID: 20224067
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2010
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Health Policy (95)2-3 2010
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Women and older people are overrepresented among patients with low priority. Conditional on age, women with low priority have lower income and less education than women with high priority. Among men below 50 years, patients with low priority have less education than patients with high priority. CONC...
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PMID: 20060613
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Health Policy (95)2-3 2010
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Resource scarcity and increasing service demand lead health systems to cope with choices within constrained budgets. The aim of the paper is to describe the study carried out in the Tuscan Health System in Italy on how to set priorities in the disinvestment process for re-allocation. The analysis wa...
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PMID: 20015568
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The network's target population varies according to the precise perinatal period and the planning stage. For the conception period, it includes the general population and specifically all women of childbearing age (15-49 years). The health area included 672,000 inhabitants in 2006, 29% of them are w...
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PMID: 20185259
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Journal of Agromedicine (15)2 2010
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We translate the findings from public health research into practice? We are not doing this job very well and we need to rethink our approach so that we can do a better job. The major problem is that we public health professionals have messages to give people, but people have lives to lead, and we ha...
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PMID: 20407987
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European nations such as the U.K., Denmark, and the Netherlands, have already spent several years developing nationwide health information exchange (HIE) systems, and working through policy, procedural, and technological issues. Issues around the creation of national patient identifier numbers, pati...
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PMID: 20426237
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The Queensland nurse (29)2 2010
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The Health service journal (120)6192 2010
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Circulation Journal (74)2 2010
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Early transport and specific reperfusion therapy for major PE were effectively performed by the Tokyo CCU Network, suggesting the efficacy of a specialty management system for major PE....
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PMID: 20019409
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The plan had several unforeseen consequences with serious effects on patient care. Maternity services were particularly affected. Maternity beds decreased from 30 beds in the former hospital to 4 beds in the makeshift hospital. As numbers of deliveries did not greatly decrease, this resulted in seve...
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PMID: 20459915
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The Health service journal (120)6191 2010
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Modern Healthcare (40)4 2010
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The Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service model offers academic health centers methodologies for community engagement that can address the social determinants of disease. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center developed Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) as a vehicle for its mo...
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PMID: 20065282
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Quality circles (QC) are viewed as one of the most important tools of quality improvement and continuing education in ambulatory care. Yet, little is known about the quality of QC work.
From 1995 to 2007, an external assessment of QC work took place at four regional A...
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PMID: 20369446
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More than 1.8 million New York residents have diabetes, and diabetes prevalence in the state has doubled in the last decade. As part of its $35 million five-year campaign to reverse the diabetes epidemic in New York, the New York State Health Foundation's Diabetes Policy Center partnered with the Ce...
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PMID: 20653218
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Even as concerns about nursing shortages continue nationwide and for individual states in the United States, there is little information on the impact of nursing shortages at substate levels, such as counties or groups of small counties. National and state level assessments can mask wide geographic...
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PMID: 20653217
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Of the 14,446 LPNs with Washington licenses in 2007, 72% practiced in the state. The work setting in which the largest percentage worked was long-term care (37%). Of the average 37 hours worked per week by LPNs, 25 hours were spent in direct patient care. The average age of practicing LPNs was 46 an...
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PMID: 20653219
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Public Health Reports (125 Suppl 5) 2010
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In the event of a natural or man-made disaster involving large numbers of children, resources in the Southeastern U.S. are extremely limited. This article chronicles the efforts of the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Mississippi State Department of Health, and the South Central Center for P...
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PMID: 21133068
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We found a good correlation among most indicators based upon administrative discharge data (DS1, DS2 and LEA01), whereas the results obtained using PRUO and new LEA (LEA08) were discordant, and marked differences were observed also between the two PRUO indicators. Although the limitations of the stu...
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PMID: 20476652
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Medycyna pracy (61)3 2010
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The paper aims to present the activities of the largest Voivodeship Occupational Medicine Centers (VOMCs) in Poland in the area of workplace health promotion in 2008. It was compiled on the basis of written reports concerning these activities sent by the Centers to the Polish National Center for Wor...
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PMID: 20677435
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Sante publique (22)1 2010
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Since 1996, consumers have been able to become involved in the development and implementation of national, regional and local healthcare policies, thereby demonstrating the possibility of establishing a model of democratic institution in healthcare at all levels of decision-making and policy impleme...
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PMID: 20441630
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Sante publique (22)1 2010
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Health democracy in France has consisted in recognizing individual and collective rights attributed to users of the health system and in making decision-making procedures in health more contradictory. However, this movement has encountered a number of obstacles and barriers since the adoption of the...
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PMID: 20441627
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Sante publique (22)1 2010
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The Public Health Bill of August 9 2004 established that regions are the optimal level for governing interventions. The new law resulted in the creation of the National Health Conference and the new Regional Health Conferences. The Permanent Assembly of the Regional Health Conferences was created in...
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PMID: 20441628
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Sante publique (22)1 2010
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The HPST law seeks to reorganize the governance of healthcare at a regional level and to maintain the existence of regional health conferences, now known as regional health and autonomy conferences (CRSAs). The purpose of this article is to examine the new duties attributed to the CRSAs and to consi...
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PMID: 20441629
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The Health service journal (119)6187 2009
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We chose five operational districts (ODs) and two of them were contracted to NGO for management assistance. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interview to 17 managers and 16 key informant interviews. For analysis, we used qualitative analysis based on a grounded theory approach to clarify a conc...
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PMID: 20103853
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Medical History (53)4 2009
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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The Health service journal (119)6162 2009
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Acta Neurochirurgica (151)6 2009
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The number of Neurosurgeons (NS) per population varies considerably among these countries. The mean is one neurosurgeon per 99,152 population. The number of neurosurgical operations per population per year varies similarly with a mean of 1,642 operations per million population/year. Countries with f...
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PMID: 19471851
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Monaldi archives for chest disease = Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace / Fondazione clinica del lavoro, IRCCS [and] Istituto di clinica tisiologica e malattie apparato respiratorio, Universita di Napoli, Secondo ateneo (72)2 2009
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The increasing evidence on the favourable cost/effectiveness impact of the comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program for the treatment of a wide spectrum of cardiovascular conditions have imposed to healthcare services a major attention on a critical analysis of the results in different clinical...
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PMID: 19947186
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Annals of Surgery (249)4 2009
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A community of practice framework incorporating the success elements described in the systematic review of the literature can be used as a valuable model for collaboration amongst surgeons and healthcare organizations to improve quality of care and foster continuing professional development....
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PMID: 19300234
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Critical Care Medicine (37)4 2009
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This article presents the health situation in Angola from 2000 to 2007, discussing regionalization of the health system as an important instrument for improving access and the use of health services in the country, besides highlighting the conditions and challenges for implementation. The article is...
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PMID: 19347201
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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The Health service journal (Suppl) 2009
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