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Quality of Health Care (10):
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Electronic consultation (e-consultation) is an emerging tool that primary care clinicians can use to communicate with specialists about patients asynchronously—that is, at different times that are convenient for each physician. To conduct an e-consultation, clinicians use either a...
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PMID: 22059281
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The Children's Asthma Care (CAC) measure set evaluates whether children admitted to hospitals with asthma receive relievers (CAC-1) and systemic corticosteroids (CAC-2) and whether they are discharged with a home management plan of care (CAC-3). It is the only Joint Commission core m...
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PMID: 21972307
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New England Journal of Medicine (365)13 2011
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We linked nationwide data from the Medicare Minimum Data Set and claims files from 2000 through 2007. We defined patterns of transition as burdensome if they occurred in the last 3 days of life, if there was a lack of continuity in nursing homes after hospitalization in the last 90 days of life, or...
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PMID: 21991894
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Modern Healthcare (41)37 2011
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In response to concern about lengthy waiting times for cancer treatment in the UK, the Department of Health introduced 'the colorectal cancer target referral scheme' to improve the referral process for suspected cancer. A user-centred web-based intranet software was developed reflect...
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PMID: 21848449
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We compared achievement of and improvement in quality standards for diabetes at practices using EHRs with those at practices using paper records. All practices, including many safety-net primary care practices, belonged to a regional quality collaborative and publicly reported performance....
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PMID: 21879900
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Laeknabladid (97)9 2011
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The use of ultrasound is now widespread within the field of Emergency Medicine. The availability of lightweight and relatively cheap ultrasound devices has enabled clinicians to obtain more detailed information about the condition of acutely ill and injured patients than can be done...
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PMID: 21911912
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The Health service journal (121)6271 2011
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The Health service journal (121)6271 2011
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The Health service journal (121)6271 2011
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Healthcare Executive (26)4 2011
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Despite the widespread use of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the appropriateness of these procedures in contemporary practice is unknown.
To assess the appropriateness of PCI in the United States.
Multicenter, prospective study of patients w...
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PMID: 21730241
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New England Journal of Medicine (364)23 2011
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In recent years, qualitative research has become much more widely used in healthcare settings and undoubtedly has much to offer nutrition and dietetics. Its value is, however, still sometimes called into question and, for those unfamiliar with qualitative approaches, it can be difficult to grasp what...
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PMID: 21091921
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Physician-family communication in the Intensive Care Units. Suggestions for critical situations.The present paper originates from some critical situations in clinical practice. The aim is to give some suggestions on how to convey information to families of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units, c...
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PMID: 21779106
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We identify promising programmatic approaches and propose directions for future evaluation research of family planning interventions....
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PMID: 21834409
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Dental update (38)5 2011
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Practice success is defined across the four'dimensions' of oral health, patient satisfaction, job satisfaction and financial profit. It is suggested that the'secret' of success in dental practice is to make patient (customer) satisfaction the primary focus. Not a very earth shattering or surprising '...
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PMID: 21834317
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Clinical Nephrology (75)6 2011
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Reemergence of the importance of vascular access in the care of the chronic hemodialysis patient has gained prominence due to renewed interest in clinical outcomes and evidence-based interventions. Further fueled by anticipated regulatory changes in the reimbursement for dialysis care in the United S...
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PMID: 21612752
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New England Journal of Medicine (364)22 2011
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Medicine and law (30)2 2011
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In this paper, the material scope of application of mediation regulated in the Belgian Act of August 22nd, 2002 on Patient's Rights will be discussed in detail. In accordance with this Act, a mediator only has the competence to handle patients' complaints concerning the medical and care aspects of pa...
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PMID: 21877468
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Despite a widespread interest in increasing the numbers of primary care physicians to improve care and to moderate costs, the relationship of the primary care physician workforce to patient-level outcomes remains poorly understood.
To measure the association between t...
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PMID: 21610242
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We identified key areas for future research. Despite the growing evidence at the descriptive level, future research will have to take a more systematic approach to establish valid measures of handover quality and safety, establish the causal effects of handover characteristics on safe care and ident...
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PMID: 21550543
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The Practitioner (U.K.) (255)1740 2011
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The Lancet (377)9775 2011
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We assessed the effect of performance-based payment of health-care providers (payment for performance; P4P) on use and quality of child and maternal care services in health-care facilities in Rwanda.
166 facilities were randomly assigned at the district level either to begin P4P fund...
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PMID: 21515164
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We rated the methods that fully covered all three domains on five aspects of applicability to perioperative nursing practice recommendations. The Oncology Nursing Society's method was rated highest for all five aspects of applicability, and interrater reliability of this method for perioperative rec...
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PMID: 21459180
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The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) quantifies the extent to which people are informed about and involved in their health care. Objectives were to determine the psychometric properties of PAM among multimorbid older adults and evaluate a theoretical, four-stage model of patient activation. Methods....
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PMID: 21091470
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We used hierarchical regression to measure variation in donor risk index (DRI) in the United States by region, organ procurement organization (OPO) and transplant center. The sample included all adults who underwent deceased donor liver transplantation between January 12, 2005 and February 1, 2009 (...
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PMID: 21466651
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The objective of this study was to analyze the organization of the working process of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit through the relationships established between the social actors present in the micropolitical space. This study used an unconventional methodology, adapted to a qualit...
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PMID: 21655787
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Due to the phenomenon of Taiwan'saging population has made, long-term care has become an issue of increasingly emphasized importance. According to the statistics, the family takes responsibility for most long-term care duties and more than 70% of primary family caregivers are female. In the past, bec...
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PMID: 21455893
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Evidence-based practice has become a dominant trend in the healthcare with the objective of providing efficient, high quality health care, and policy making. Traditional problem-solving methods may not adequately address consumer needs in the rapidly changing modern healthcare system. In order to mak...
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PMID: 21455895
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Since the 1960's in-vitro diagnostic tests (IVD) have been contributing greatly to the progress of medical care, which has lead to significant improvements in patients' quality of life. Today, it is apparent that IVD tests are an inevitable component of healthcare for individual treatment as well as...
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PMID: 21626878
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Our data show how a memory clinic needs to take care of both patients and their caregivers, with particular stress on caregiver specific education and well-being....
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PMID: 21572492
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Primary Dental Care (18)2 2011
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The aim of this study was to survey patient satisfaction with dental care delivered in general practice and to compare the results with those obtained five years earlier using the same questionnaire.
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PMID: 21457624
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Audiologists often work collaboratively with other health professionals-particularly otolaryngology providers. Some form of written reporting of audiologic outcomes is typically the vehicle by which communication among providers occurs. Quality patient care is dependent on both accurate interpretatio...
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PMID: 21586258
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New England Journal of Medicine (364)13 2011
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We linked information on tort claims brought against 1465 nursing homes between 1998 and 2006 to 10 indicators of nursing home quality drawn from two U.S. national data sets: the Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting system and the Minimum Data Set Quality Measure/Indicator Report. We tested f...
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PMID: 21449787
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