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Outside the Box [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Einstein wrote, "you can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created." So we decided to ask diverse groups of randomly selected Arizona citizens to consider health care reform options, rather than continuing to ask health care industry ...
Heidi Gantwerk   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure: research and clinical practice in primary care

open access: yesItalian Journal of Medicine, 2015
The treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and comorbidities, increasing with age, is the challenge that nowadays health care systems are facing to better care treat these patients. For this reason a clinical trial was conducted in the
Francesco Chiumeo, Stefania Folloni
doaj   +1 more source

Follow‐Up Effect of Wechat Group on Discharged Patients with Colles Fracture

open access: yesGlobal Challenges, 2023
This work explores the effect of a Wechat group on follow‐up and continuation of nursing for discharged patients with Colles fracture. A total of 96 patients with Colles fracture are enrolled and randomized into two groups by the random number table ...
Lifen Tang, Jingjing Dai
doaj   +1 more source

Technology adoption in health care: International barriers and opportunities to telemedicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Although telemedicine and telehealth are seen as discrete entities by some authors, both The Cochrane Library (2010) and the WHO (2009) acknowledge that definitions overlap.
Carter, Bernie
core   +1 more source

Transitional Home Care program utilizing the Integrated Practice Unit concept (THC-IPU): Effectiveness in improving acute hospital utilization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2017
Background: Organizing care into integrated practice units (IPUs) around conditions and patient segments has been proposed to increase value. We organized transitional care into an IPU (THC-IPU) for a patient segment of functionally dependent patients ...
Lian Leng Low   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collaboration between Two Restructured Hospitals' Family Physician-Led Transitional Home Care Teams in the Provision of Home Ventilation Respiratory Support

open access: yesProceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2014
Caring for a patient on a home ventilator requires a trained multidisciplinary home care team. Availability of home medical care support at our restructured hospitals allows timely discharge of these patients to their homes, resulting in decreased ...
Lian Leng Low MMed (Fam Med), MCFP   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Construction of Traditional Chinese Medicine continuous nursing service system under the background of Internet Plus (“互联网+”背景下中医延续护理服务体系的构建)

open access: yes中西医结合护理, 2022
This paper discussed the construction of Traditional Chinese Medicine continuous nursing service system under the background of Internet Plus. The sub-professional nursing group was set up to train nursing professionals of TCM, and the TCM nursing clinic
LIU Shu (刘姝)   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Continuing care---a continuing dilemma [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Disease in Childhood, 2001
Medical advances in paediatric care have resulted in an increase in the number of children needing long term medical and nursing care. These children are dependent on complex technological devices such as mechanical ventilation, tracheostomies, and artificial feeding. Most technologically dependent children live at home with parents as the main carers.
openaire   +2 more sources

Peer observation : a tool for continuing professional development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Peer observation has been advocated as a means of monitoring and improving the quality of teaching within Higher Education, whilst peer support and review have been used to provide feedback and monitoring within the clinical context.
Davys, D, Jones, V
core   +1 more source

Expert consensus on diagnosis and treatment of ulcerative colitis with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine: A nursing perspective

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Nursing, 2023
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic nonspecific intestinal inflammatory disease of unclear etiology, characterized by continuous and diffuse inflammatory changes of colorectal mucosa. In recent years, the incidence rate of UC in China has increased year
Bing Xu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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