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An in-depth analysis of theoretical frameworks for the study of care coordination

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2013
Introduction: Complex chronic conditions often require long-term care from various healthcare professionals. Thus, maintaining quality care requires care coordination.
Sabine Van Houdt   +4 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Care Coordination as Imagined, Care Coordination as Done: Findings from a Cross-national Mental Health Systems Study [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2018
Introduction Care coordination is intended to ensure needs are met and integrated services are provided. Formalised processes for the coordination of mental health care arrived in the UK with the introduction of the care programme approach in the early ...
Ben Hannigan   +2 more
exaly   +7 more sources

General practitioners’ reflections on using PSA for diagnosis of prostate cancer. A qualitative study

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2022
Objective To investigate how GPs use the PSA test as a diagnostic tool in daily practice.Design Qualitative study using focus group interviews, the transcripts being analyzed by systemic text condensation.Subjects A total of 17 Norwegian GPs in three CME
Olav Thorsen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficient drug delivery to lymph nodes by intradermal administration and enhancement of anti-tumor effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors

open access: yesCancer Treatment and Research Communications, 2023
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are novel immunotherapy drugs that have improved cancer treatments. Yet only a small percentage of patients experience durable responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
Ryo Tanaka   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The increasing impact of length of stay “outliers” on length of stay at an urban academic hospital

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background As healthcare systems strive for efficiency, hospital “length of stay outliers” have the potential to significantly impact a hospital’s overall utilization.
Andrew H. Hughes   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Usefulness of the KDPI in Spain: A comparison with donor age and definition of standard/expanded criteria donor

open access: yesNefrología (English Edition), 2018
Introduction: Kidney donor shortage requires expanding donor selection criteria, as well as use of objective tools to minimize the percentage of discarded organs. Some donor pre-transplant variables such as age, standard/expanded criteria donor (SCD/ECD)
Carlos Arias-Cabrales   +11 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Water Safety Plan, Monochloramine Disinfection and Extensive Environmental Sampling Effectively Control Legionella and Other Waterborne Pathogens in Nosocomial Settings: The Ten-Year Experience of an Italian Hospital

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2023
Legionella contamination control is crucial in healthcare settings where patients suffer an increased risk of disease and fatal outcome. To ensure an effective management of this health hazard, the accurate application of a hospital-specific Water Safety
Claudio Farina   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organ donation after euthanasia starting at home in a patient with multiple system atrophy

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background A patient who fulfils the due diligence requirements for euthanasia, and is medically suitable, is able to donate his organs after euthanasia in Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada.
Najat Tajaâte   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Measure of Care Coordination? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of General Internal Medicine, 2012
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA; Section of General Internal Medicine and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Center for Outcomes Research and ...
Julie P W, Bynum, Joseph S, Ross
openaire   +2 more sources

Do soldiers seek more mental health care after deployment? Analysis of mental health consultations in the Netherlands Armed Forces following deployment to Afghanistan [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2014
Background: Military deployment to combat zones puts military personnel to a number of physical and mental challenges that may adversely affect mental health.
Elisabeth (Liesbeth) M. Taal   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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