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Personal Assistance for Adults (19‐64) with Physical Impairments

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2008
This systematic review investigated the effectiveness of personal assistance versus any other form of care for adults with physical impairments. A literature search identified one study that met the inclusion criteria, which included 817 participants. It
Evan Mayo‐Wilson, Paul Montgomery, Jane Dennis   +2 more
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Personal Assistance for Children and Adolescents (0‐18) with Physical Impairments

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2008
Studies urgently needed to assess effects of Personal Assistance for children and teens with physical impairments. Personal assistance is here defined as paid support of at least 20 hours per week for people with impairments. This review investigated the
Evan Mayo‐Wilson, Paul Montgomery, Jane Dennis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence-Based Public Policy Decision-Making in Smart Cities: Does Extant Theory Support Achievement of City Sustainability Objectives?

Sustainability, 2021
Evidence-based decision making is promoted as offering efficiency and effectiveness; however, its uptake has faced barriers such as underdeveloped supporting culture, limited access to evidence, and evidence that is not fully relevant.
David Mills, S. Pudney, Primož Pevcin, J. Dvorak   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Better evidence, better decisions, better environment: emergent themes from the first environmental evidence conference

Environmental Evidence, 2017
The first international Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) conference took place in August 2016 at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm with nearly 100 participants from 14 countries. This conference reflected and contributed to
Steven J. Cooke, Sif Johansson, Karolin Andersson, Barbara Livoreil, Gerald Post, Rob Richards, Ruth Stewart, Andrew S. Pullin   +7 more
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The politicization of PISA in evidence-based policy discourses

Policy Futures in Education
Education reform efforts stemming from the Programme in International Student Achievement have strengthened in recent years, particularly in response to the growth of global references societies – high achieving educational jurisdictions such as Finland,
Louis Volante, Paola Mattei
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prioritisation processes for programme implementation and evaluation in public health: A scoping review

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundProgramme evaluation is an essential and systematic activity for improving public health programmes through useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate methods.
Shaileen Atwal, Jessica Schmider, Barbara Buchberger, Anelia Boshnakova, Rob Cook, Alicia White, Charbel El Bcheraoui   +6 more
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Storytelling and evidence-based policy: lessons from the grey literature

Palgrave Communications, 2017
A number of authors interested in how to translate evidence into policy identify the importance of policy narrative and argue that advocates of scientific evidence need to tell good stories to grab the attention and appeal to the emotions of policymakers.
Brett Davidson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unpacking complex interventions that manage care for high-need, high-cost patients: a realist review

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective Payers, providers and policymakers in the USA are interested in developing interventions that reduce preventable or modifiable healthcare use among high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients.
Eva Chang, Rania Ali, Nancy D Berkman
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Supporting Survivor‐Centered Care Through Digital Health Integration

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Survivors of childhood cancer face barriers to receiving guideline‐based, long‐term follow‐up care. Two digital tools, Passport for Care (PFC) and Cancer SurvivorLink (SurvivorLink), address complementary gaps by enabling tailored survivorship care plan (SCP) generation, updating, storage, and sharing.
Jordan G. Marchak, Rebecca Williamson‐Lewis, Michael O'Connor, Michael Palgon, Yu‐Ra Kim, Michael Schuckenbrock, Paula Edwards, Abraham Mendoza, Anthony Adams, Brian Arriaga‐Solis, Justin Parker, Harry Tinoco‐Giraldo, Jason King, C. Michael Fordis, Karen E. Effinger, Maria Monica Gramatges   +15 more
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Predicting medical usage rate at mass gathering events in Belgium: development and validation of a nonlinear multivariable regression model

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Every year, volunteers of the Belgian Red Cross provide onsite medical care at more than 8000 mass gathering events and other manifestations. Today standardized planning tools for optimal preventive medical resource use during these events are
Hans Scheers, Hans Van Remoortel, Karen Lauwers, Johan Gillebeert, Stijn Stroobants, Pascal Vranckx, Emmy De Buck, Philippe Vandekerckhove   +7 more
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