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Community paramedic point of care testing: validity and usability of two commercially available devices

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2019
Background Community Paramedics (CPs) require access to timely blood analysis in the field to guide treatment and transport decisions. Point of care testing (POCT), as opposed to laboratory analysis, may offer a solution, but limited research exists on ...
Ian E. Blanchard, Ryan Kozicky, Dana Dalgarno, Justin Simms, Stacy Goulder, Tyler S. Williamson, Susan Biesbroek, Lenore Page, Karen Leaman, Suzanne Snozyk, Lyle Redman, Keith Spackman, Christopher J. Doig, Eddy S. Lang, Gerald Lazarenko   +14 more
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Business Pandemic Infuenza Planning Checklist [PDF]

, 2005
credit is requested.businessChecklist.pdf: 206 downloads, before Oct.
United States Department of Health and Human Services
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Web services synchronization health care application

, 2011
With the advance of Web Services technologies and the emergence of Web Services into the information space, tremendous opportunities for empowering users and organizations appear in various application domains including electronic commerce, travel ...
Akaichi, Jalel, Limam, Hela
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STD Services Delivery Arrangements in Georgia County Health Departments [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Uniformity, standardization, and evidence-based public health practice are needed to improve the efficiency and quality of services in local health departments (LHDs).
Angie Peden, Bill Livingood, Gulzar H. Shah, Karmen S. Williams   +3 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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Effectiveness of health literacy intervention on cardiovascular diseases among university students of Pakistan

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Global burden of cardiovascular diseases is alarming which is intricately linked with health literacy. To what extent improvement in health literacy can lower down cardiovascular diseases occurrence has not yet properly documented.
Maria Nazar, Shahzad Ali Khan, Ramesh Kumar, Assad Hafeez   +3 more
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The Specificity of the Changes in the Lithuanian Health Tourism Services Industry [PDF]

, 2014
Purpose of the article: Even if the health tourism is one of the niche tourisms, it demonstrates successful growth comparing to the general tourism, other niches sectors, such as eco, medical, sport, adventure and other forms of tourism.
Langvinienė, Neringa
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transfers between long-term care and emergency departments across Alberta

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background Long-term care (LTC) was overwhelmingly impacted by COVID-19 and unnecessary transfer to emergency departments (ED) can have negative health outcomes.
Leanna Wyer, Yair Guterman, Vivian Ewa, Eddy Lang, Peter Faris, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc   +5 more
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Patient-Physician Relational Continuity and Health System Utilization Among Albertans

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction The Office of the Auditor General report on Chronic Disease Management in 2014 identified that in Alberta there are no processes to identify individuals with chronic diseases who do not have or cannot find a Primary Health Care (PHC ...
Tanmay Patil, Rizwan Shahid, Alka Patel, Scott Oddie   +3 more
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