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Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System [PDF]

, 2009
Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes how patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, examines hospital experiences with a patient safety culture survey, and assesses patient safety outcomes trends. In case studies of four U.S. communities, researchers collected information on the dynamics of local patient
J. Ashwood, Chau Pham, Julie Brown, Hao Yu, Jake Dembosky, Peter Hussey, Amelia Haviland, Michael Greenberg, Rebecca Shaw, Cheryl Damberg, Stephanie Teleki, Peter Mendel, M. Ridgely, Donna Farley   +13 more
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Individual unmet needs for care: are they sensitive as outcome criterion for the effectiveness of mental health services interventions?

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Mental health interventions should demonstrate an effect on patients' functioning as well as his/her needs, in particular on unmet needs whose assessment depends on the perspective of either the patient or the clinician.
Wiersma, Durk, Torres-Gonzales, F., Torres-Gonzales, Francisco, McCabe, R, Wright, D.J., Wright, DJ, Salize, Hans, Wright, Donna J., Bullenkamp, J, Rössler, W, Wiersma, D, Hansson, Lars, Lauber, Christoph, Martinez-Leal, Rafael, Salize, H, Priebe, S., Salize, H., Torres-Gonzales, F, Priebe, Stefan, Wiersma, D., McCabe, R., Martinez-Leal, R., Bjoerkman, T., McCabe, Rosemarie, Roessler, Wulf, Bullenkamp, J., Bjoerkman, T, Björkman, Tommy,, Björkman, Tommy, Björkman, T, Bullenkamp, Jens, Hansson, Lars,, Wolters, K., Hansson, L., van den Brink, R., Wolters, Kerstin, Hansson, L, van den Brink, R, Lauber, C., van den Brink, Rob, Martinez-Leal, R, Rossler, W., Wright, D J, Wolters, K, Lauber, C, Priebe, S, Lund University., Bjoerkman, Tommy   +47 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated care: a position paper of the WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services. [PDF]

, 2001
The WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services in Barcelona is an integral part of the World Health Organizations' Regional Office for Europe.
Garcia-Barbero, M, Gröne, O, WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services   +2 more
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Assessing the impact of health technology assessment in the Netherlands [PDF]

, 2008
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008Objectives: Investments in health research should lead to improvements in health and health care. This is also the remit of the main HTA program in the Netherlands.
Hoorens, S., Wooding, Steven, Buxton, Martin J, Martin J. Buxton, Hanney, S, Ligtvoet, Andreas, Andreas Ligtvoet, Stephen R. Hanney, Oortwijn, WJ, Wija J. Oortwijn, Wooding, S, Grant, J, Jonathan Grant, Bouter, LM, Hanney, S.R., Hoorens, S, Buxton, M.J., Bouter, L.M.; id_orcid, Hanney, Stephen R, Wooding, S., Bouter, L.M., Steven Wooding, Bouter, Lex M, Lex M. Bouter, Hoorens, Stijn, Stijn Hoorens, Ligtvoet, A, Oortwijn, W.J., Ligtvoet, A., Oortwijn, Wija J, Buxton, MJ, Grant, J., Grant, Jonathan   +32 more
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Current Physiotherapy Practices of Outcome Measures in the Management of Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study

Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, 2023
Background: The patients with low back pain have the frequency to seek physiotherapy. There are various outcome measures for low back pain with proven reliability and validity.
Aftab Ahmed Mirza Baig, Syed Abdul Wajid, Syed Irfan Haider Naqvi, Muhammad Nooruddin, Syed Shahzad Ali   +4 more
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Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
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Health literacy as a key for effective preventive medicine

Cogent Social Sciences, 2017
Background: A preventive approach in health care aims to anticipate the natural history of the diseases and to define break points where the procedures may act to change future events, on the limit of the patient’s free will.
Paulo Santos, Luísa Sá, Luciana Couto, Alberto Hespanhol   +3 more
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Personalizing obesity assessment and care planning in primary care: patient experience and outcomes in everyday life and health [PDF]

Clinical Obesity, 2018
SummaryObesity is a complex, chronic disease, frequently associated with multiple comorbidities. Its management is hampered by a lack of translation of evidence on chronicity and pathophysiology into clinical practice. Also, it is not well understood how to support effective provider–patient communication that adequately addresses patients’ personal ...
T. Luig, R. Anderson, A. M. Sharma, D. L. Campbell‐Scherer   +3 more
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source