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Association of waiting and consultation time with patient satisfaction: secondary-data analysis of a national survey in Peruvian ambulatory care facilities [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Research suggested that waiting time and consultation time are associated with overall patient satisfaction concerning health services.
Christoper A. Alarcon-Ruiz, Paula Heredia, Alvaro Taype-Rondan   +2 more
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Factors associated with inappropriate antibiotic use in South African communities: findings from the CAMUS survey [PDF]

Frontiers in Pharmacology
BackgroundInappropriate antibiotic use in the community is a primary driver of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where ambulatory care, including primary healthcare (PHC) facilities, is the main ...
Nishana Ramdas, Natalie Schellack, Corrie Uys, Brian Godman, Brian Godman, Brian Godman, Stephen M. Campbell, Stephen M. Campbell, Johanna C. Meyer, Johanna C. Meyer   +9 more
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Exploring the impact of high reliability organization implementation on patient handling injury rates: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
Background Patient handling injuries (PHIs) are among the leading causes of workplace injuries among healthcare workers. High-reliability organization (HRO) programs aim to prevent detrimental errors and improve organizational safety. This study examined
Michael Joshua G. Morales, Pauline Hilton, OiSaeng Hong, Stella Bialous, Marie Martin, Mary Foley, Soo-Jeong Lee   +6 more
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Colonoscopy quality in community hospitals and nonhospital facilities in Korea [PDF]

The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021
Background/Aims High-quality colonoscopy is essential to reduce colorectal cancer-related deaths. Little is known about colonoscopy quality in non-academic practice settings.
Jae Gon Lee, Dong Soo Han, Young-Eun Joo, Dae-Seong Myung, Dong Il Park, Seul Ki Kim, Yunho Jung, Won Hyun Lee, Eun Soo Kim, Joon Seok Yoon, Chang Soo Eun   +10 more
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Regional Differences in Antibiotic-resistant Enterobacterales Urine Isolates in the United States: 2018-2020

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
[Abstract]: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can complicate effective management of urinary tract infections. We conducted a retrospective study of AMR in Enterobacterales urine isolates from ambulatory and hospitalized adult patients from 2018-2020 (BD ...
Steven I. Aronin, Vikas Gupta, Michael W. Dunne, Janet A. Watts, Kalvin C. Yu   +4 more
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Hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: What conditions make inter-country comparisons possible?

Health Policy Open, 2021
Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions have been extensively used in health services research to assess access, quality and performance of primary health care.
João Victor Muniz Rocha, Rui Santana, Juan E. Tello   +2 more
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The economic burden of pneumonia in children under five in Uganda

Vaccine: X, 2021
Background: There were about 138 million new episodes of pneumonia and 0.9 million deaths globally in 2015. In Uganda, pneumonia was the fourth leading cause of death in children under five years of age in 2017–18.
Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Gatien De Broucker, Anthony Ssebagereka, Aloysius Mutebi, Rebecca Racheal Apolot, Bryan Patenaude, Dagna Constenla   +6 more
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Preparedness of outpatient health facilities for ambulatory treatment with all-oral short DR-TB treatment regimens in Zhytomyr, Ukraine: a cross-sectional study

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Ukraine has a high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). Mental health problems, including alcohol use disorder, are common co-morbidities. One in five DR-TB patients has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Tinne Gils, Chinmay Laxmeshwar, Marve Duka, Khachatur Malakyan, Olga Valentinovna Siomak, Vitaly Stephanovich Didik, Natalia Lytvynenko, Yana Terleeva, Dmytri Donchuk, Petros Isaakidis   +9 more
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Effectiveness of primary care gatekeeping: difference-in-differences evaluation of a pilot scheme in China

BMJ Global Health, 2020
Introduction This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a gatekeeping pilot in shifting resources and patient visits from hospitals to primary care facilities under the Chinese New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme.Methods We applied a difference-in ...
Jin Xu, Anne Mills, Timothy Powell-Jackson   +2 more
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Preventable admissions and emergency-department-visits in pediatric asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Migrant health has become an essential part of public health. According to the World Health Organization, many health systems in Europe have not yet adapted adequately to the needs of asylum-seekers, which might result in untimely and ...
Julia Brandenberger, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Florian Vogt, Thorkild Tylleskär, Nicole Ritz   +4 more
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