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Safe start at home : what parents of newborns need after early discharge from hospital - a focus group study [PDF]

, 2016
The length of postpartum hospital stay is decreasing internationally. Earlier hospital discharge of mothers and newborns decreases postnatal care or transfers it to the outpatient setting.
Conzelmann, Cornelia, Eicher, Manuela, Fölmli, Luzia, Krähenbühl, Katrin, Kurth, Elisabeth, Rodmann, Susanne, Zemp, Elisabeth   +6 more
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Experiences of patients on cancer treatment regarding decentralization of oncology services at a tertiary hospital in the Eastern Cape

BMC Cancer, 2023
Background The cancer burden is a global public health concern associated with high morbidities and mortalities. Low and middle-income countries are more affected including South Africa.
Lumkile Wilmot Jojo, Nonyaniso Trustina Nkutu   +1 more
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Treatment Initiation, Program Attrition and Patient Treatment Outcomes associated with Scale-up and Decentralization of HIV care in rural Malawi [PDF]

, 2012
To describe patient antiretroviral therapy (cART) outcomes associated with intensive decentralization of services in a rural HIV program in ...
Annette Heinzelmann, Elisabeth Szumilin, Landon Myer, Loretxu Pinoges, Mar Pujades-Rodríguez, Martha Huckabee, Megan McGuire, Rupa Kanapathipillai, Simon Makombe, Tamika Munyenyembe   +9 more
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Efficiency evaluation for pooling resources in health care [PDF]

, 2012
Hospitals traditionally segregate resources into centralized functional departments such as diagnostic departments, ambulatory care centers, and nursing wards.
Boucherie, Richard J., Hans, Erwin W., Hurink, Johann L., Litvak, Nelly, Vanberkel, Peter T.   +4 more
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3D Printing in a hospital: Centralized clinical implementation and applications for comprehensive care

Digital Health, 2023
This educational article discusses the use of 3D printing or additive manufacturing in hospitals, not just for rapid prototyping but also for creating end-use products, such as clinical, diagnostic, and educational tools.
Samuel Hellman, Paul Frisch, Andre Platzman, Paul Booth   +3 more
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The organization of ambulance decontamination during the COVID-19 pandemic: a process analysis based on the Lean Thinking philosophy

Emergency Care Journal, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic led to massively increased emergency medical services (EMS) activity. The need to decontaminate emergency vehicles after conveying a suspected or confirmed patient to the hospital represented a critical step, slowing the activities ...
Guglielmo Imbriaco, Alfonso Flauto
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Ambient-aware continuous care through semantic context dissemination [PDF]

, 2014
Background: The ultimate ambient-intelligent care room contains numerous sensors and devices to monitor the patient, sense and adjust the environment and support the staff.
A Mihailidis, A Valls, AK Dey, AK Dey, AL Rector, Ann Ackaert, B Hu, B Jansen, B Motik, C Chen, C Orwat, C Wroe, D Lee, D Martin, D Zhang, DL McGuinnes, E Kim, E Sirin, F Baader, F De Backere, F Manola, F Ongenae, F Ongenae, F Ongenae, F Ongenae, F Paganelli, F Siegemund, F Van den Abeele, Femke Ongenae, Filip De Turck, H Byun, H Chen, I Filali, I Horrocks, I Korhonen, J Anderston, J Ash, J Bardram, J Famaey, J Famaey, J Hong, JA Blake, JC Burgelman, Jeroen Famaey, JH Jahnke, JJ Carroll, K Fishkin, L Ma, LOBS Santos, M Baldauf, M Corporation, M Horridge, M Román, M Tentori, MA Muñoz, MB Skov, MD Rodríguez, MJ O’Connor, N Bricon-Souf, P Barnaghi, P de Toledo, P Korpipää, Piet Verhoeve, R Cornet, RL Mattson, S Kumar, S Mitchell, S Schulz, S Verstichel, S Verstichel, Saar De Zutter, Steven Latré, Stijn Verstichel, T Chin, T Gu, T Strang, T Suzuki, TH Cormen, TH Knublauch, TR Gruber, U Varshney, V Stanford, VFS Fook, W Xue, W3C Semantic Sensor NetworkIncubatorGroup, Y Punie   +85 more
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Volume-outcome revisited: The effect of hospital and surgeon volumes on multiple outcome measures in oesophago-gastric cancer surgery. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Most studies showing a volume outcome effect in resection surgery for oesophago-gastric cancer were conducted before the centralisation of clinical services.
Claudia Fischer, Hester Lingsma, Niek Klazinga, Richard Hardwick, David Cromwell, Ewout Steyerberg, Oliver Groene   +6 more
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Access to mental health care in El Salvador: a case study of progress toward decentralization

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2018
Objective. To assess the need for decentralization of psychiatric services in El Salvador, based on country-specific evidence, and to generate baseline measures the government and researchers could use to monitor and measure future progress toward ...
Samuel V. Nickels, Mariely Campos Tomasino, Nelson A. Flamenco Arvaiza, Cynthia A. Hunter   +3 more
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Patterns of mental health services and mood disorder disability pensions: a standard comparison of Finland’s three largest hospital districts

BMC Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction Mental disorders are one of the most common and disabling health conditions worldwide. There is however no consensus on the best practice of system level mental health services (MHS) provision, in order to prevent e.g.
Tino Karolaakso, Reija Autio, Petra Suontausta, Helena Leppänen, Kimmo Suokas, Päivi Rissanen, Martti T. Tuomisto, Sami Pirkola   +7 more
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