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Incorporating Safety and Quality Measures Into Australia’s Activity-Based Funding of Public Hospital Services

Health Services Insights, 2023
In a bid to improve quality of care, numerous countries have incorporated rewards and penalties into the funding and pricing of hospital services. This paper outlines recent advances in Australia to incorporate financial penalties for hospital acquired ...
Samuel B. G. Webster, Sarah E. Neville, Jennifer Nobbs, Jada Ching, Kees van Gool   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Memory in aged granular media

, 2000
Stimulated by recent experimental results, we simulate ``temperature''-cycling experiments in a model for the compaction of granular media. We report on the existence of two types of memory effects: short-term dependence on the history of the sample, and
A Barrat, Barrat A., Bouchaud J. P., Caglioti E., Head D., Herrmann H. J. (ed), Jaeger H. M., Luding S., Nowak E. R., Struik L. C. E., V Loreto, Vincent E., Yoshino H.   +12 more
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Quality of online self-management resources for adults living with primary brain cancer, and their carers: a systematic environmental scan

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background A primary brain cancer diagnosis is a distressing, life changing event. It adversely affects the quality of life for the person living with brain cancer and their families (‘carers’).
Isabelle Schaefer, Nicole Heneka, Tim Luckett, Meera R. Agar, Suzanne K. Chambers, David C. Currow, Georgia Halkett, Domenica Disalvo, Ingrid Amgarth-Duff, Cleola Anderiesz, Jane L. Phillips   +10 more
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Optimising nutrition in residential aged care: A narrative review [PDF]

, 2016
In developed countries the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition increases with age and multi-morbidities increase nutritional risk in aged care residents in particular.
Agarwal, Ekta, Isenring, Elisabeth, Marshall, Skye, Miller, Michelle   +3 more
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Building the Nursing Workforce of The Future

Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management
The supply, retention and distribution of a quality nursing workforce is critical to ensure Australians have access to health and aged care, when and where they need it.
Karen Cook , Samantha Lavender , Frances Rice   +2 more
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The Relationship of Students’ Coping Styles with Stress and E-Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bezmiâlem Science, 2022
Objective:This research was planned to evaluate the relationship between coping styles with stress and e-learning of health services vocational school students during the distance education process in the Coronavirus diease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic.Methods:
Yağmur AKBAL, Hilal PEKMEZCİ, Burcu ÇUVALCI   +2 more
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Impaired Auditory Temporal Selectivity in the Inferior Colliculus of Aged Mongolian Gerbils [PDF]

, 2011
Aged humans show severe difficulties in temporal auditory processing tasks (e.g., speech recognition in noise, low-frequency sound localization, gap detection). A degradation of auditory function with age is also evident in experimental animals.
Grothe, Benedikt, Khouri, Leila, Lesica, Nicholas A.   +2 more
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Experiences of older immigrants living with dementia and their carers: a systematic review and meta-synthesis

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective To systematically review and synthesise evidence on the experiences of older immigrants living with dementia and their carers.Design A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.Methods Studies exploring the experiences of ...
Lisa Whitehead, Davina Porock, Pelden Chejor, Bridget Laging   +3 more
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Incidence and Outcome of Infants With Cancer in Canada: A Report From Cancer in Young People in Canada Database

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Infants with cancer are rare and face unique challenges. Our study aims to describe the incidence of infantile cancers in Canada and to compare treatment‐related mortality (TRM) and their outcomes with those of older children. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Cancer in Young People in Canada database ...
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Maria Kondyli, Monia Marzouki, Nicolas Prud'homme, Nida Usmani, Sylvia Cheng, Lesleigh Abbott, Tony Truong, Sapna Oberoi, Ketan Kulkarni, Josée Brossard, Lynette Bowes, Paul Gibson, Donna L. Johnston, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Lillian Sung, Catherine Vezina, Laura Wheaton, Alexandra P. Zorzi, Marie‐Claude Pelland‐Marcotte, Thai Hoa Tran   +22 more
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Low falls and inpatient complications increase risk for longer length of stay in older persons admitted following trauma

BMC Geriatrics
Background Older adults make up 33% of all trauma admissions in Australia despite comprising 17% of the population with rates rising faster for older age groups compared to any other age group.
Christopher J. Emmett, Wen Kwang Lim, Alyssa Griffiths, Rachel Aitken, David J. Read, Katherine Gregorevic   +5 more
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