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The National Service Framework for Older People resulted in the widespread introduction of intermediate care (IC) services. However, although these services have shared common aims, there has been considerable diversity in their staffing, organisation and delivery. Concerns have been raised regarding...
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PMID: 21526696
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National and state-level evidence has documented ongoing disparities in children's health and utilization of oral health care services, prompting a re-examination of factors associated with poor oral health and low use of oral health services. These efforts have yielded a wide array of proposals for...
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PMID: 21485933
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We learn from Argentina's experiences about obstacles and opportunities during a pandemic crisis? This article, based on extensive qualitative research, including document capture, media analysis, and oral history interviews, assesses Argentina's mixed response to H1N1 during austral winter 2009, an...
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PMID: 21337926
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We sought to explore the mechanisms whereby triage could lead to fewer deaths across a critical care population in the context of a pandemic.
We constructed a mathematical model based on queuing theory to compare the estimated short-term survival achieved by using a critical care service with and wi...
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PMID: 20975553
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The aim of this paper is to describe a comprehensive metabolic monitoring strategy within an Australian public mental health service.
Patient physical health was identified as a high priority within the mental health service. A survey of staff attitudes informed the development of metabolic monitori...
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PMID: 20863187
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It won't be easy, but hospitals know that getting a better handle on the health needs of their communities will lead to cost savings and better outcomes. Some have launched population health initiatives even before reform law requirements kick in.
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PMID: 21141751
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A pilot study was conducted in rural northern New South Wales from 15 July to 28 August 2009, during Australia's Protect Phase response to the Influenza A H1N1 California 7/09 pandemic. This study explored the feasibility of using administrative data, generated from the distribution of stockpiled an...
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PMID: 21090185
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We found an increase in the utilization of ambulatory medical care services by demented patients of 50% in the year before and of 40% in the year after the incidence, predominantly in primary care and neurology/psychiatry settings. A negative interaction effect of age and gender (p
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This community's utilization of their Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) unit proved to be a valuable resource in their vaccination clinics as part of their response to the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus. Early planning, mock vaccination drills, and use of a strategic analysis process aided in the formulat...
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PMID: 20694874
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Editor's note: This is the sixth in a series of articles describing a public and private collaborative effort coordinated by the Center to Champion Nursing in America at AARP to redesign nursing education to prepare the future nursing workforce.
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PMID: 20505465
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We conducted a study of three elements, namely (1) teleconsultations, (2) academic activities, and (3) education. We carried out our study from three perspectives: the teleconsultant, telemedicine academic activities, and telemedicine education. In this article, we also show our recent achievement i...
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PMID: 20575733
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This review evaluates some of the international literature on triage in order to provide evidence-based data for the medical community in Saudi Arabia specifically and the Eastern Mediterranean Region in general. The aim is to encourage national health planners and decision-makers to apply formal tr...
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PMID: 20799600
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Public health law has received considerable attention in recent years and has become an essential field in public health. Public health law research, however, has received less attention.
Expert commentary.
This article explores public health law resea...
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PMID: 20579282
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Public health law has received considerable attention in recent years and has become an essential field in public health. Public health law research, however, has received less attention.
Expert commentary.
This article explores public health law resea...
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PMID: 20579282
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Public health law has received considerable attention in recent years and has become an essential field in public health. Public health law research, however, has received less attention.
Expert commentary.
This article explores public health law resea...
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PMID: 20579282
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Public health law has received considerable attention in recent years and has become an essential field in public health. Public health law research, however, has received less attention.
Expert commentary.
This article explores public health law resea...
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PMID: 20579282
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With 25 million inhabitants in the Nordic countries, 130 000 incident cancers are reported yearly, alongside nearly 60 000 cancer deaths, with almost a million persons living with a cancer diagnosis. This web-based application is available in English and in each of the five Nordic national languages...
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PMID: 20491528
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We will focus on medical management after mass casualty events, specifically the involvement of the Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN), a voluntary consortium of medical centers across the continental U.S. RITN and its partners have established standardized approaches for the evaluation and t...
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PMID: 20445390
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Based on the World Health Organization's Mental Health Atlas, the first Mental and Social Health Atlas in Saudi Arabia describes the historical background of mental health and social services in the country and identifies several deficiencies in the system including infrastructure and logistics and...
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PMID: 20799560
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This document adopts as a final rule the proposed rule to amend Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations regarding grants to States for construction or acquisition of State homes. This final rule updates the maximum number of nursing home and domiciliary beds designated for each State and ame...
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PMID: 20387316
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In Japan, as in the United States, a growing proportion of physicians are women. Hence, the different social roles that men and women occupy and the gendered norms for behavior are increasingly relevant in ensuring that male and female physicians have equal opportunity to participate and advance in...
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PMID: 20354367
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The 5-year relative survival rates were higher in hospitals with large numbers of patients. With some target sites, such as the stomach, colon, and breast, the mortality was similar between high and low volume hospitals, whereas the other target sites showed higher mortality in line with decrease in...
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PMID: 20560408
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There is a lack of recent data. Marked geographical differences in caries experience were reported with high DMFT values in urban areas compared to rural areas. The rise in caries prevalence was linked to an increase in sugar consumption. This was demonstrated in Tokelau where the mean number of dec...
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PMID: 20476718
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In times of demographic and social change, it is increasingly important to ensure the availability of care services to cover the growing demand. With the implementation of the German long-term insurance act in 1994, the responsibility of states and municipalities was maintained; however, given the l...
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PMID: 20383626
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It is estimated that there are fewer than one million patients with Stages 4 and 5 CKD not on dialysis. Most of these patients have regular encounters with the health care system because of diabetes, hypertension, and other diseases of aging. Many of these patients are not under the ongoing care of...
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PMID: 20458993
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This commentary paper proposes that historically the lack of significant system wide reform of the sector may be in part related to the quality of evidence that has informed reviews of maternity services. It calls for the implementation of systematic monitoring of a comprehensive set of quality indi...
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PMID: 20005792
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We used a document analysis, two expert interviews and a survey among members (n = 33) to collect relevant data for the assessment. The analysis showed that the visions of the network can be regarded as fulfilled in most aspects. The members of the network received network support through trustful a...
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PMID: 20357349
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The Joint Task Force of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; the American Academy of Pediatrics; and the National Association of School Nurses all recommend emergency action plans (EAPs) that direct therapy of allergic rea...
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PMID: 20406595
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This paper reviews research with policy relevance for food and nutrition in Central America and similar areas. The research was conducted by the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) during the last three decades of the past millennium (1970-99). Six policy areas were selected...
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PMID: 20461913
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In response to an Audit Scotland report, the Scottish Executive, now the Scottish Government, set up the national Nursing and Midwifery Workload and Workforce Planning (NMWWP) programme to define workload and workforce needs, and to analyse the use of bank and agency staff. After extensive research,...
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PMID: 20222230
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The HIAs ensured that health became more integral to the strategies and increased understanding of determinants of health and how the GLA impacts on health and health inequalities. Inclusion of HIA within IIA ensures that health and health inequalities impacts are considered robustly within statutor...
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PMID: 20188387
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We analyzed the availability and content of child and adolescent mental health policies and plans in all provinces and territories.
The World Health Organization (WHO) framework for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy and Plans was applied.
Four provinces in Canada have a child and adolescent...
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PMID: 20181305
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I make the case for using an integrative approach to health, broadly defined as social, emotional, mental, and physical well-being; for studying health among the young as an important marker for future health and well-being across the life course; and for understanding health disparities among the y...
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PMID: 20355681
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Australian federal and state governments were advised several years ago that an influenza pandemic would overwhelm Australian public reference laboratories. It was proposed at the time that currently underused capacity in the private sector be used to enhance pandemic responses. The current outbreak...
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PMID: 20078413
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