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The role of occupational health care in ambulatory health care in Finland

Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2022
In Finland, occupational healthcare (OHC) provides alternative access to curative ambulatory primary healthcare for a large proportion of the employed.
Tuukka Holster, Lien Nguyen, Unto Häkkinen   +2 more
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Treatment patterns, healthcare resource use, and costs associated with uncomplicated urinary tract infection among female patients in the United States.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundWe evaluated associations between antibiotic prescription and healthcare resource use and costs (Part A), and between antibiotic switching and healthcare resource use, costs, and uncomplicated urinary tract infection recurrence (Part B) in ...
Rena C Moon, Alen Marijam, Fanny S Mitrani-Gold, Daniel C Gibbons, Alex Kartashov, Ning A Rosenthal, Ashish V Joshi   +6 more
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Use of Electronic Health Records and Quality of Ambulatory Healthcare

Cureus, 2022
Background This study aimed to measure the association between electronic health record (EHR) use and quality measures in ambulatory healthcare. Methodology A quantitative, retrospective, cross-sectional design was used by examining secondary data from the 2015-2016 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.
Alammari, Duaa, Banta, Jim E, Shah, Huma, Reibling, Ellen, Talsania, Shrenik   +4 more
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Identifying common patterns of health services use: a longitudinal study of older Swiss adults' care trajectories

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Population ageing puts pressure on health systems initially designed to handle acute and episodic illnesses. Segmenting an ageing population based on its healthcare utilization may enable policymakers to undertake evidence-based resource ...
Leonard Roth, Laurence Seematter-Bagnoud, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Julien Dupraz, Juan-Manuel Blanco, Yves Henchoz, Isabelle Peytremann-Bridevaux   +6 more
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Pain and haemorrhage are the most common reasons for emergency department use and hospital admission in adults following ambulatory surgery: results of a population-based cohort study

Perioperative Medicine, 2020
Background Advances in healthcare delivery have allowed for the increase in the number of ambulatory surgery procedures performed in Canada. Despite these advances, patients return to hospital following discharge.
Monakshi Sawhney, David H. Goldstein, Xuejiao Wei, Genevieve C. Pare, Louie Wang, Elizabeth G. VanDenKerkhof   +5 more
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Associations between healthcare quality and use of electronic health record functions in ambulatory care [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2015
AbstractObjectives Contemporary electronic health records (EHRs) offer a wide variety of features, creating opportunities to influence healthcare quality in different ways. This study was designed to assess the relationship between physician use of individual EHR functions and healthcare quality.Materials and Methods Sixty-five providers eligible for ...
Jessica S. Ancker, Lisa M. Kern, Alison Edwards, Sarah Nosal, Daniel M. Stein, Diane Hauser, Rainu Kaushal   +6 more
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1793. Evaluation of Ambulatory Antibiotic Use in Children and Adult Patients of a Healthcare System in Bolivia Using the AWaRe Classification

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022
Abstract Background The World Health Organization (WHO) has established the AWaRe (Access, Watch and Reserve) classification based on the impact of different antibiotics on antimicrobial resistance.
Rodolfo E Quiros, Elvio D. Escobar, Juan Carlos Tapia, Sara E. Cosgrove, Valeria Fabre   +4 more
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2309. Promoting Healthcare Worker (HCW) Use of Personal Protective Equipment in Pediatric Ambulatory Settings [PDF]

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2018
BACKGROUND: Existing Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines promote HCW personal protective equipment (PPE) use to prevent respiratory virus transmission in pediatric clinics; however, adherence to recommendations is inconsistent.
Odeniyi, Folasade, Hanley, Samantha, Gianchetti, Lauren, Sharova, Anna, Handy, Lori, Coffin, Susan E, Feemster, Kristen   +6 more
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Biosimilar Use and Switching in Belgium: Avenues for Integrated Policymaking

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Background: By improving the affordability and accessibility of biologicals, biosimilar competition provides important benefits to healthcare systems and patients.
Liese Barbier, Steven Simoens, Paul Declerck, Arnold G. Vulto, Arnold G. Vulto, Isabelle Huys   +5 more
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Prosthesis or osteosynthesis for the treatment of a pathological hip fracture? A nationwide registry-based cohort study

Journal of Bone Oncology, 2021
Aims: How endoprosthetic replacement compares to osteosynthesis in the treatment of pathologic hip fractures as far as functional outcome and use of healthcare resources is concerned remains largely unknown.
Panagiotis Tsagkozis, Jessica Ehne, Rikard Wedin, Margareta Hedström   +3 more
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