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Process improvement ensures high-quality disability benefit evaluation [PDF]

, 2018
Blog post to Commonwealth Medicine's website - View blog post onlineOngoing quality management and review of disability benefit evaluation processes and procedures is critical for state and municipal retirement system administrators.
Simpson, Jody
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Self-directed disability support: building people’s capacity through peer support and action research [PDF]

, 2014
How are people with disability experiencing and managing the transition towards self directed support and preparing for the NDIS? In this project, small groups of people with disability around Australia met over 6 months to talk about their disability ...
Fisher, KR ; https://orcid.org/, Meyer, P, Ariella Meltzer, Karen R. Fisher, Cooper, S, Meltzer, A ; https://orcid.org/, Purcal, C ; https://orcid.org/, Phoebe Meyer, Ngila Bevan, Sam Cooper, Bevan, N, Wong, M ; https://orcid.org/, Melissa Wong, Christiane Purcal   +13 more
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Understanding Disability

, 2021
The book presents disability as an interdisciplinary issue of interest to representatives of numerous scientific disciplines. It includes chapters on systemic solutions and policies in disability, the role and significance of institutions in the ...
Podstawka, Katarzyna, Trojanowska, Milena, Krzywik, Adrianna, KOCEJKO, MAGDALENA, Nowakowska, Iwona, Figiel, Wojciech, Kamyk-Wawryszuk, Agnieszka, Pufund, Dorota, Lejzerowicz, Magda, Dobrychłop, Anna, Goede, Karolina, Albin, Kamila, Greniuk, Angelika, Kokot-Rybińska, Magdalena, Stawowy, Joanna, Głąb, Zbigniew   +15 more
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Supported Accommodation Evaluation Framework (SAEF): drop-in support [PDF]

, 2015
The NSW Department of Family and Community Services, Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC) commissioned the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia to design an evaluation framework and collect data for ...
Karen Fisher, Fisher, KR ; https://orcid.org/, Ariella Meltzer, Karen R. Fisher, Smedley, C, Meltzer, A ; https://orcid.org/, Purcal, C ; https://orcid.org/, Rosemary Kayess, Jones, A ; https://orcid.org/, Charlotte Smedley, Hill, T ; https://orcid.org/, Kayess, R, Deborah Lutz, Sally Robinson, Trish Hill, Robinson, S, Christiane Purcal, Anna Jones, Lutz, D   +18 more
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The Psychometric Features of the Patient-Rated Wrist Evaluation in Iranians With Scaphoid or Distal Radius Fracture [PDF]

Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2021
Objectives: It is essential to have a suitable instrument for the accurate assessments of pain and disability outcomes during interventions; such tools also help to guide hand surgery and rehabilitation programs in distal radius or scaphoid fracture ...
Mahsa Fadavi-Ghaffari, Akram Azad, Ghorban Taghizade, Noureddin Nakhostin-Ansari, Hooman Shariatzadeh, Sina Aminizadeh   +5 more
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Evaluation of Services Our Way [PDF]

, 2014
An evaluation of Services Our Way, a NSW Government service model designed to build the capacity of Aboriginal people to have greater access to mainstream and disability services and encourage self-directed support.
Shona Bates, Fisher, KR ; https://orcid.org/, Bates, S ; https://orcid.org/, Karen R. Fisher, Raven, M, Margaret Raven, Trish Hill, Rosemary Kayess, Hill, T ; https://orcid.org/, Kayess, R   +9 more
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Institutional maternal and perinatal deaths: a review of 40 low and middle income countries

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Understanding the magnitude and clinical causes of maternal and perinatal mortality are basic requirements for positive change. Facility-based information offers a contextualized resource for clinical and organizational quality improvement. We
Patricia E. Bailey, Wasihun Andualem, Michel Brun, Lynn Freedman, Sourou Gbangbade, Malick Kante, Emily Keyes, Edwin Libamba, Allisyn C. Moran, Halima Mouniri, Dahada Ould el Joud, Kavita Singh   +11 more
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Listening for policy change: how the voices of disabled people shaped Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme [PDF]

, 2014
: Voice has become an important yet ambivalent tool for the recognition of disability. The transformative potential of voice is dependent on a political commitment to listening to disabled people. To focus on listening redirects accountability for social
Thill, Cate, Cate Thill
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Factors associated with disability and quality of life among the oldest-old living in community in Poland – a cross-sectional study

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2020
Introduction In Poland, the number of the oldest-old people is increasing. The prevalence of health problems increases with age, which expands the cost of medical and social care.
Agnieszka Beata Ćwirlej-Sozańska, Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej, Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska, Bernard Sozański   +3 more
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Use of wearables to measure the effects of long COVID on activities of daily living and their relationship to perceived exertion, occupational performance, and quality of life

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionThis study introduces a novel approach to understanding the impact of long COVID symptoms on daily life by integrating wearable devices to assess their influence on physical and mental quality of life, as well as perceived performance and ...
Lucía Hernández-Hernández, Paula Obeso-Benítez, Sergio Serrada-Tejeda, Patricia Sánchez-Herrera-Baeza, Ma Pilar Rodríguez-Pérez, Marta Pérez-de-Heredia-Torres, Rosa María Martínez-Piédrola, Jorge Martín-Hernández   +7 more
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