Assessment of canine health and preventative care outcomes of a community medicine program [PDF]
Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2018 The objective of this study was to assess if use of a community based veterinary medical program (the Tufts at Tech Community Veterinary Clinic) was related to indicators of canine health and well-being in a low-income community through the provision of low-cost preventative care.
Megan K. Mueller +3 more
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Quality of life as an instrument for need assessment and outcome assessment of health care in chronic patients [PDF]
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 1999 Introduction Quality of life is generally acknowledged as a central concept in health care, but its full application in healthcare research and clinical practice are still being debated. With an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the focus of health care expanding from “adding years to life” to “adding life to years”, there is a growing ...
GAM van den Bos, Mattanja Triemstra
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Level Assessments of Learning Outcomes in Health Care and Nursing
, 2013 Das Leonardo da Vinci-Innovationstransferprojekt CrediCare verfolgte das Ziel der grenzüberschreitenden Übertragung und Erprobung eines Verfahrens zur Beschreibung und vergleichenden Niveaubestimmung von Lernergebnissen des Pflegesektors. Das Verfahren ist so konzipiert, dass seine Anwendung in Ländern mit unterschiedlichen Berufsbildungssystemen ...
Roland Tutschner
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The Schizophrenia Care and Assessment Program Health Questionnaire (SCAP-HQ): An Instrument to Assess Outcomes of Schizophrenia Care [PDF]
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2003 Advances in treatment technologies and development of evidence-based standards of care demand better methods for routine assessment of outcomes for schizophrenia in systems of care. This article describes the development and psychometrics of a new instrument to assess outcomes of routine care for persons with schizophrenia in service systems. Candidate
Anthony F. Lehman +6 more
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Assessment of mental and physical health outcomes over time in an integrated care setting [PDF]
BMC Primary CareIntegrated care addresses the fragmentation of patient health services and potentially improves the experience of care, reduces healthcare costs, and improves health outcomes. This study assessed the improvements in mental health and physical health outcomes among patients living with mental health challenges and treated in an integrated care setting ...
Dependra Bhatta +3 more
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Evaluability Assessment in Health Care: An Example of the Patient Care and Outcome Process [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1995 Abstract: Evaluability assessment is a critical first step toward successful program evaluation. Programs aimed at making difficult and significant changes to important health care services must be open to both the encouragement and the critical review that follow systematic evaluation efforts.
A. Casebeer, Wilfreda E. Thurston
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Anatomical endoscopic enucleation of the prostate for bladder outlet obstruction: a narrative review [PDF]
Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science, 2022 Anatomical endoscopic enucleation of the prostate (AEEP) differs from other endoscopic modalities for bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) because it extracts the whole benign prostatic hyperplasia component.
Tae Hyo Kim, Phil Hyun Song
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 PurposeDiabetes and its complications pose an economic burden to healthcare systems, family, and society. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate the real-world financial burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) treatment, complications, and cardiovascular death ...
Arintaya Phrommintikul +3 more
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Hemodialysis facility star rating affects mortality in chronic hemodialysis patients: a longitudinal observational cohort study [PDF]
Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2023 Background Many countries have their own hemodialysis (HD) quality assurance programs and star rating systems for HD facilities. However, the effects of HD quality assurance programs on patient mortality are not well understood. Therefore, in the present
Hayne Cho Park +10 more
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Portuguese translation of Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale (POSAS) [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2016 INTRODUCTION: The scar assessment is a useful tool in surgical intervention and other treatments by documenting efficacy and making possible to improve them.
Carolina Barbi Linhares +2 more
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