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A Comprehensive Quality Management Approach
Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1996Value analysis and shared governance are two management concepts relatively new to the health care industry. Operating together, they complement each other and can result in a comprehensive "quality management" plan. An example of this model in a purchasing decision illustrates the benefits that can result from use of this collaborative ...
Joan Forrer, Valerie Stafford Hardy
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A Comprehensive Approach to Faculty Evaluation
Journal of Nursing Education, 1988ABSTRACT The purpose of this undertaking was to design a comprehensive faculty evaluation instrument that would reflect the complexities of the faculty role. An 80-item instrument was designed from a review of the literature, content analyses on job descriptions, existing evaluation tools.
Donna L. Boland, Sharon L. Sims
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A Comprehensive Approach to Fragility Fractures
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2011To address the cause of fragility fractures, an understanding of the determinants of bone strength is needed. Identifying patients at increased fracture risk should take into account bone quantity, quality, and turnover. Postmenopausal osteoporosis remains the most common derangement of bone strength; however, decreased bone strength can also result ...
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A comprehensive approach to psychiatric diagnosis
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1975The author discusses problems of the typological diagnostic system currently used in psychiatry, which focuses primarily on symptoms in classifying psychiatric disorders. He describes a comprehensive diagnostic system that would involve routine evaluation of five patient characteristics: symptoms, circumstances associated with symptoms, previous ...
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A Comprehensive Approach to Treating Infertility
Health & Social Work, 1985Infertility frequently provokes a life crisis that involves the loss of self-esteem and adaptive functioning. Drawing on clinical experience in counseling infertile individuals and couples and leading support groups for such clients, the author analyzes this crisis in terms of the emotional stages experienced by the individual and defines the ...
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Comprehensive Approaches to Treatment
1998The chapter summary in the previous chapter provides a fairly pessimistic picture of our success in treating children and adolescents with conduct disorders. Until recently, this was the state of our knowledge. There were several “promising” treatments that had some degree of effectiveness but no single-treatment approach had proven to have a dramatic ...
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A Comprehensive Approach to Violence Prevention
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1995Violence by and against youth has reached horrifying proportions. Debate continues about the causes of youth violence and appropriate solutions. This paper discusses a comprehensive holistic approach to violence prevention, as exemplified by the program at The Door-A Center of Alternatives in New York City, an organization that services at-risk youth ...
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Importance of a Comprehensive Approach
2019Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and the foremost cause of disability (The top 10 causes of death. World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/. Accessed 18 Apr 2017). For over a decade and a half, the Brain Attack Coalition (BAC) has been developing recommendations for the treatment of stroke, and
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Diabetic Nephropathy: A Comprehensive Approach
Hospital Practice, 1993By the time the traditional dipstick test shows excess urinary albumin, glomerular damage may be beyond repair and nephrotic syndrome virtually guaranteed. More sensitive assays provide earlier warning, allowing the clinician to institute a surveillance and antihypertensive program that--along with dietary glycemic control--can stave off disease ...
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A comprehensive approach to cervical cancer
Clinical Radiology, 1967The concept of cancer control is seen, probably at its best, in the attack on cancer of the uterine cervix, and the author outlines the comprehensive programme which has evolved at the Christie Hospital in Manchester during the past 3 decades. The progressive and continuing efforts at refinement of therapeutic techniques are described, followed by an ...
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