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How to do health services research in stroke: a focus on performance measurement and quality improvement [PDF]

, 2018
The objective of this ‘How to’ research series article is to provide guidance on getting started in Health Services Research. The purpose of health services research is to contribute knowledge that can be used to help improve health systems and clinical ...
Bernhardt, Julie, Cadilhac, Dominique A., Fisher, Rebecca J.   +2 more
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Public Health Systems and Services Research: Building the Evidence Base to Improve Public Health Practice

Public Health Reviews, 2013
Public health services and systems research (PHSSR) is the American designation for a field that uses a number of research disciplines and perspectives to examine the organization of public health systems, how they are financed, how they deliver public ...
F. Scutchfield, Richard C. Ingram
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Barriers and enablers to consumer and community involvement in research and healthcare improvement: Perspectives from consumer organisations, health services and researchers in Melbourne, Australia.

Health and Social Care in the community, 2021
Partnering with consumers and patients and the community and public is a research and healthcare improvement imperative. Consumer and community involvement (CCI) requires behaviour change at the individual (researcher, health professional, manager ...
D. Ayton, S. Braaf, Angela Jones, H. Teede, M. Gardam, Heidi J Bergmeier, H. Skouteris   +6 more
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Student feedback about the use of literature excerpts in Sparshanam, a Medical Humanities module [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/WalKZT]

F1000Research, 2012
Medical humanities (MH) modules have been conducted for first year students at KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal for the last four years. Literature excerpts are widely used in MH programs in developed nations.
P Ravi Shankar, Kundan K Singh, Ajaya Dhakal, Arati Shakya, Rano M Piryani   +4 more
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Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics: Recent Research and Trends in the United States [PDF]

, 2015
Objectives To survey advances in public health and epidemiology informatics over the past three years. Methods We conducted a review of English-language research works conducted in the domain of public health informatics (PHI), and published in ...
Dixon, Brian E., Kharrazi, H., Lehmann, H. P.   +2 more
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Reported Māori consumer experiences of health systems and programs in qualitative research: a systematic review with meta-synthesis

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
BackgroundPersistent inequities in health experiences and outcomes are observed for Māori compared to non-Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. We conceptualised factors associated with Māori consumer experiences of health programs and services and characterise
S. Palmer, H. Gray, Tania Huria, C. Lacey, L. Beckert, S. Pitama   +5 more
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A study on the efficacy of APACHE-IV for predicting mortality and length of stay in an intensive care unit in Iran [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2017
Background: Clinical assessment of disease severity is an important part of medical practice for prediction of mortality and morbidity in Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Mohammad Ghorbani, Haleh Ghaem, Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Zahra Shayan, Farid Zand, Reza Nikandish   +5 more
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Health services research: building capacity to meet the needs of the health care system

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2017
Health services researchers have an important role to play in helping health care systems around the world provide high quality, affordable services. However, gaps between the best evidence and current practice suggest that researchers need to work in ...
H. Barratt, J. Shaw, L. Simpson, S. Bhatia, N. Fulop   +4 more
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Breaking a Guinness World Record on Hand Sanitizing Relay, initiating a call for vital research in overcoming campaign fatigue for hand hygiene [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/530]

F1000Research, 2015
Hand hygiene has been shown to be effective in significantly reducing hospital acquired infections for many years. However it is difficult to maintain and enhance compliance with hand hygiene guidelines. In Hong Kong, we previously reported a strategy to
Wing Hong Seto, Kwok-Hung Li, Christina Woon Yee Cheung, Patricia Tai Yin Ching, Benjamin J. Cowling   +4 more
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Socioeconomic and behavioral determinants of non-compliance with physician referrals following community screening for diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia: a mixed-methods study

Scientific Reports, 2023
Early detection of undiagnosed diabetes, hypertension or hyperlipidemia through screening could reduce healthcare costs resulting from disease complications.
Sungwon Yoon, Hendra Goh, Jie Kie Phang, Yu Heng Kwan, Lian Leng Low   +4 more
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