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We analyzed prospective cohort data to identify the factors associated with health decline among new immigrants....
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PMID: 21913582
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Refugees in the United States have higher rates of some chronic diseases than US-born residents or other first-generation immigrants. This may be partially a result of dietary practices in the United States. There is limited information about which factors are related to dietary practices in refugee...
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PMID: 21872700
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We explore Sri Lankan Tamil immigrant women's views on factors contributing to intimate partner violence (IPV). We conducted eight focus groups with young, midlife, and senior women and women who experienced IPV. Three main themes emerged: postmigration sources of stress and conflict, patriarchal so...
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PMID: 21834718
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Sexual Health (8)3 2011
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Despite years of public health efforts, Chlamydia trachomatis remains a highly prevalent disease suggesting that current control strategies are not sufficient. Asymptomatic men with chlamydial infections are under-identified and probably play an important role in sustaining the epidemic. Novel method...
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PMID: 21851785
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To identify barriers to, and enablers of, the uptake of preventive care in general practice from the perspective of community members, and to explore their sense of the effectiveness of that care.
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PMID: 21843119
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Public Health Reports (126 Suppl 2) 2011
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Little is known about how families' experiences with immunization visits within the medical home may affect children's immunization status. We assessed the association between families' negative immunization experiences within the medical home and underimmunization.
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PMID: 21812166
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We conducted 6 focus groups with Haitian, African, English-speaking Caribbean, and African American women recruited from a federally qualified health center. Overall, there was limited knowledge and confusion across ethnic groups about cervical cancer and its risk factors, the Pap test, and the huma...
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PMID: 22046849
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The purpose of this study was to research teachers' experiences of the English-Language-Taught Degree Programs in the health care sector of Finnish polytechnics. More specifically, the focus was on teachers' experiences of teaching methods and clinical practice. The data were collected from eighteen...
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PMID: 21095046
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Comparing student-generated learning needs with faculty objectives in PBL cases in dental education.
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Our data agree with previous research findings. Although there was some variability in the learning objectives investigated by student small groups studying the same case, the faculty-specified case objectives were included in the student-generated learning needs. First-trimester dental students wer...
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PMID: 21828303
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AAOHN Journal (59)8 2011
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A Lift Assist Team (LAT) was created on three units at a medical center where nursing staff were at high risk for patient-handling injuries. LAT members were drawn from the hospital's pool of patient transporters. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this case study summarizes the development, im...
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PMID: 21800796
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (17)7 2011
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We interviewed staff of the Communicable Diseases Surveillance System (CDSS) in Khartoum state individually and in focus groups to assess their views about the quality of the system for the years 2005-07. The quality of CDSS was considered poor because the system was not representative as it include...
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PMID: 21972478
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This article reports the use of an expert panel to perform content validation of an experimental assessment process for the safety of assistive technology (AT) adopted by farmers with disabilities. The validation process was conducted by a panel of six experts experienced in the subject matter, i.e.,...
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PMID: 21919319
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Dementia incidence rates are rapidly increasing among culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Australians, and there is very little local research to inform practice. In response, a qualitative study employing focus group methods was undertaken with carers from 4 CALD communitie...
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PMID: 21697144
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This exploratory study set out to identify how communities in the Tufts University Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) catchment area define health-related research priority areas.
Three focus groups comprising community stakeholders were conducted in thre...
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PMID: 21707945
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Although long considered a non-pathogenic protozoan, Giardia lamblia is now a well recognized cause of abdominal discomfort, diarrhoea and failure-to-thrive in children. The overall prevalence of this infection in Cuban population is about 7.2%; however, higher prevalences have been found among young...
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PMID: 21565150
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The purpose of this exploratory research study was to assess employment performance outcomes of students who completed the prelicensure segment of an accelerated graduate entry program, the Masters Entry Program in Nursing (MEPN) at the University of California, San Francisco. MEPN RNs and their mana...
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PMID: 21534500
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The purpose of this study was to develop and test the psychometric properties of the Mental Health Assessment Tool for Older Thai Adults (MHAT-T), a 32-item self-report questionnaire. Development of the MHAT-T was based on an exploratory sequential mixed methods design, where the results of the first...
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PMID: 21706955
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The monitoring of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) through pharmacovigilance is vital to patient safety. Spontaneous reporting of ADRs is one method of pharmacovigilance, and in the UK this is undertaken through the Yellow Card Scheme (YCS). Yellow Card reports are submitted to the Medi...
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PMID: 21545758
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Community nurses have a central role in the provision of palliative and end-of-life care; helping people to die with dignity is an important component of this care. To conserve dignity, care should comprise a broad range of actions addressing the distress that might impact on the patient's sense of d...
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PMID: 21642928
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Social Work (56)2 2011
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Research shows that few social workers are interested in working with cognitively impaired older adults, such as those with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. As the number of individuals with dementia grows, the demand for social workers to provide services to patients with...
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PMID: 21553576
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Older adults, family members, and professionals may benefit from a safe driving behaviour self-/proxy-report.
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PMID: 21560911
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Little is understood as to how primary care dentists alter their clinical practice.
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PMID: 21091753
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There is increasing interest in the potential association between sedentary behaviour and poor health. This study examined office-based employees' perceptions of the health risks associated with prolonged sitting at work, and strategies to interrupt and reduce occupational sitting time.
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PMID: 21717836
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We know little about how older people's perceptions of and beliefs about fall prevention interventions affect uptake. This study aimed to explore older people's perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to participation in fall prevention interventions. We undertook a qualitative study with older...
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PMID: 21471918
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At Leeds Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), whenever possible, patients are offered the opportunity to have mechanical ventilation withdrawn at a children's hospice or in the home. The aims of this study were to examine the views of the PICU staff regarding this choice, to understand their emotio...
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PMID: 21537317
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We conducted a three-phase, mixed method empirical study to assess microaggressions among LGBT-POC. The LGBT People of Color Microaggressions Scale is an 18-item self-report scale assessing the unique types of microaggressions experienced by ethnic minority LGBT adults. The measure includes three su...
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PMID: 21604840
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Objectives. This study aims to understand how the risks of snowmobiling are communicated among northern Norwegian youths. Study design. A qualitative design with focus group interviews was chosen. Interviews centred on safety precautions and estimation of risks related to snowmobiling and driving pat...
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PMID: 21481299
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This study provides much needed information on the education level of older drivers regarding the impact of health conditions and medications on personal driving safety, where they source this information, and how this knowledge influences self-regulation of driving. Random and convenience sampling s...
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PMID: 21376881
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The use of the social marketing approach for public health issues is increasing. This approach uses marketing concepts borrowed from the principles of commercial marketing to promote beneficial health behaviors. In this qualitative study, four focus groups involving 42 participants were used in consu...
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PMID: 21376850
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The authors investigated built environment (BE) factors in urban neighborhoods in DeKalb County, Georgia. Each volunteering, consenting senior was placed into one of two groups: walking tours outside, then discussions (n=37); and focus group discussions indoors about photographs of BE conditions pote...
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PMID: 21413557
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Exposure to racism has been linked to poor health outcomes. Little is known about the impact of racism on diabetes outcomes. This study explored African American women's beliefs about how racism interacts with their diabetes self-management and control. Four focus groups were conducted with a conveni...
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PMID: 21528110
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We sought to clarify such trends in Iran and compare them to trends reported for similar developing countries....
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PMID: 21361721
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We undertook this action research study to enhance the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of Laotian migrant workers, and to conceptualize a practical model for workers for use in similar situations. Seventy Laotian migrant workers, 3 researchers, and 18 stakeholders took part in the study. Sever...
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PMID: 20660369
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We assessed the degree of overlap between academic descriptions of depression and patient-reported symptoms as conceptualized in the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System(®) (PROMIS(®)). By extension, this work assesses the degree of overlap between current clinical descriptions...
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PMID: 21332520
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Health & Social Work (36)1 2011
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Even as the rate of smoking in the U.S. population overall has decreased dramatically during the last four decades, people with mental illness continue to use tobacco at alarmingly high rates. In the last two years, national initiatives have developed to address smoking within this population, yet th...
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PMID: 21446606
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Well-being is a complex notion with many different dimensions whose definition is disputed. Therefore, the present study considers the meanings and indicators of well-being in health in the perspective of the farmers of the Northeast of Thailand. The conceptual framework of research is based on well-...
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PMID: 21534373
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This qualitative study explored common and divergent perceptions of caregivers and managers regarding occupational health and safety, work organization, and psychosocial concerns in long-term care centers. Both common and differing issues were identified. Both groups agreed on the im...
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PMID: 21261239
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Guidelines on recurrent miscarriage are poorly implemented in daily clinical practice. To ensure proper implementation, we identified existing barriers and facilitators for guideline adherence according to professionals and patients.
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PMID: 21241265
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Journal of Public Health Dentistry (71 Suppl 1) 2011
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This paper introduces qualitative methods for assessing the acceptability of an intervention.
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PMID: 21656958
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: Although conservative care is the standard intervention for infants with torticollis, the variation in intervention content and format proposed in the literature reflects the lack of clear understanding of this population's needs. The objective was to identify factors assessed by pediatricians and...
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PMID: 21829118
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This study explores the drug resistance strategies of urban American Indian adolescents when they encounter people offering them alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Data were collected in 2005 from 11 female and 9 male adolescents who self-identified as American Indian and attended two urban middle s...
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PMID: 21810074
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Analysing facilitators and barriers helped better understand the change processes, but this must be followed by concrete actions to successfully implement new paediatric rehabilitation models....
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PMID: 21732809
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To identify key non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) to include in a daily diary assessment for off-time, revise the Scales for Outcomes of Parkinson's disease Diary Card (SCOPA-DC) to include these non-motor symptoms, and investigate the validity, reliability and predictive utility of the...
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PMID: 21851616
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Breast cancer poses a greater risk for African American than Caucasian women due to persistent health disparities. To reduce mortality risk, culturally specific knowledge is needed to support and encourage regular breast cancer screening and risk-reduction behaviors in older African...
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PMID: 21210573
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Key informant interviews and focus groups assist in eliciting qualitative data from the community in order to develop educational programs. This article describes how an additional methodology, illustrated story maps, are used to obtain context-specific information on what African Am...
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PMID: 19608857
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American Journal of Health Promotion (25)5 Suppl 2011
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Despite a high prevalence of voluntary home smoking bans and laws protecting Californians from exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) in the workplace, many Hispanic/Latino (H/L) residents of multiunit housing (MUH) are potentially exposed to SHS from neighboring apartments. An advocacy/policy interventi...
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PMID: 21510793
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This article describes the development, implementation and results of a health and wellness initiative at an ICCD Clubhouse in North Carolina.
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PMID: 21768076
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New Solutions (21)1 2011
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Genetic testing in the workplace holds the promise of improving worker health but also raises ethical, legal, and social issues. In considering such testing, it is critical to understand the perspectives of workers, who are most directly affected by it, and occupational health professionals, who are...
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PMID: 21411427
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Ethnicity & Disease (21)1 2011
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Our goal was to explore patients' perceptions about barriers to self-management of diabetes that could possibly help explain poor health outcomes among minority patients.
Four focus groups were conducted among 31 predominately African American patients with diabetes who were enrolled...
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PMID: 21462726
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There is a strong interest in and need for nutrition education and food skills programs for adults with developmental disabilities. The collaboration of multiple community partners in program implementation and delivery is essential. At the policy level, the needs of individuals with aging caregiver...
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PMID: 21382225
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Quality in primary care (19)1 2011
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Practice-based small group learning (PBSGL) originated in Canada and has spread to Scotland. After a successful pilot in 2004, there has been rapid growth in the number of participants in Scotland, particularly among general practitioners (GPs). Growth of participant numbers has required the recruitm...
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PMID: 21703107
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Noise and Health (13)51 2011
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In phase 1 of a large multiyear effort, health communication and health promotion models were used to develop a comprehensive hearing loss prevention training program for carpenters. Additionally, a survey was designed to be used as an evaluation instrument. The models informed an iterative research...
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PMID: 21368436
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Nurse researcher (18)2 2011
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Focus groups are increasingly popular in nursing research. However, proper care and attention are critical to their planning and conduct, particularly those involving nursing staff. This article uses data gleaned from prior research to address the complexities present in clinical set...
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PMID: 21319486
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The process evaluation of the Vital@Work intervention was primary aimed at gaining insight into the context, dose delivered, fidelity, reach, dose received, and participants' attitude. Further, the differences between intervention locations were evaluated.
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PMID: 21663610
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Clinical nurse consultants have been a part of the nursing workforce for some time however a lack of clarity regarding this role has led to significant variations in health service expectations, workloads and scope for the Clinical nurse consultants working within this metropolitan health service.
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PMID: 21706993
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General practitioners (GPs) are the health care providers from which young people are most likely to seek help. However, the rate at which young people access GPs is less than ideal. Four focus groups were conducted with groups of GPs in New South Wales to inform the development of a GP training prog...
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PMID: 21616025
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An oncology nutrition referral priority rating system (NRPRS) was developed and evaluated as a tool to classify patients into nutrition risk categories and allocate reasonable wait times.
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PMID: 21645432
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Patients have the potential to provide a rich source of information on both organisational aspects of safety and patient safety incidents. This project aims to develop two patient safety interventions to promote organisational learning about safety - a patient measure of organisational safety (PMOS),...
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PMID: 21619575
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This paper explores issues related to the types of support that practice nurses require to engage in care coordination for people with chronic conditions. A sample of practice nurses and general practitioners participated in a focus group discussion to identify their perspectives on the role of pract...
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PMID: 21616028
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Current evidence highlights the importance of maintaining good oral health during pregnancy, unfortunately, many women in Australia do not access dental services at this time. Compounding the situation is the lack of importance placed on the value of good maternal oral health by prenatal care provide...
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PMID: 21706994
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