The Schizophrenia Care and Assessment Program Health Questionnaire (SCAP-HQ): An Instrument to Assess Outcomes of Schizophrenia Care [PDF]
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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Quality management in surgery: improving clinical and surgical outcomes
Quality is a term used by various specialists, from different perspectives, having as a common point to identify focuses that promote their development in institutional management.
RAPHAELLA PAULA FERREIRA +3 more
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Can the shift from needs-led to outcomes-focused assessment in health and social care deliver on policy priorities? [PDF]
Assessment, planning and review are at the heart of the provision of services and support in health and social care in the community, providing key means through which professionals interact with people using their services.
Miller, Emma
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Assessment of canine health and preventative care outcomes of a community medicine program [PDF]
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 Kiely 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]
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 ...
van den Bos, GAM, Triemstra, AHM
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Prognostic Factors of Outcome in Methanol Poisoning; an 8-year Retrospective Cross-sectional Study
Introduction: Identification of high-risk patients with poor prognosis is essential for quick diagnosis and treatment of methanol poisoning to prevent death and improve the outcome.
Vahid Yousefinejad +4 more
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Assessment of variation in long-term outcomes of integrated care initiatives in Dutch health care
Introduction The care for many patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 in the Netherlands, is contracted by a local care group. The healthcare providers, who collectively shape a care group, provide protocolled diabetes care.
Katalin Katona +2 more
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Process versus outcome indicators in the assessment of quality of health care [PDF]
This paper reviews the relative strengths and weaknesses of outcome and process measures as performance indicators in health care. Differences in outcome may be due to case mix, how the data were collected, chance, or quality of care. Health care is only one determinant of health and other factors have important effects on health outcomes, such as ...
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Personality disorder in primary care : factors associated with therapy process and outcome. [PDF]
Assessment and treatment of personality disorder (PD) is a key issue in UK mental health service provision (NIMH report, 2003), but there is limited information on individuals with personality disorder presenting to primary care mental health services ...
Jones, Steven H. +3 more
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Assessing outcomes of ear molding therapy by health care providers and convolutional neural network [PDF]
AbstractEar molding therapy is a nonsurgical technique to correct certain congenital auricular deformities. While the advantages of nonsurgical treatments over otoplasty are well-described, few studies have assessed aesthetic outcomes. In this study, we compared assessments of outcomes of ear molding therapy for 283 ears by experienced healthcare ...
Rami R. Hallac +10 more
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