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Redefining Healthcare Infrastructure: Moving Toward Integrated Solutions [PDF]

, 2010
Currently in the United Kingdom there is a trend to broaden the scope of service provision in the healthcare sector. Not only are new healthcare-related services being provided to the community, but also there is increasing concern for providing ...
Formoso, Carlos Torres, Tillmann, Patricia, Tzortzopoulos, Patricia   +2 more
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Organizational health and independent sector healthcare organizations [PDF]

, 2020
With an increasing proportion of UK healthcare delivered by independent sector providers (ISPs) it is important that performance data is reviewed with a similar rigour as within the public sector.
Williams, Stephen P, Purkayastha, Sanjay, Chaturvedi, Sankalp, Darzi, Ara   +3 more
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National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) patient safety component manual [PDF]

The NHSN is a secure, Internet-based surveillance system that expands and integrates patient and healthcare personnel safety surveillance systems managed by the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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Collateral impact of the COVID−19 pandemic on the use of healthcare resources among people with disabilities

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
ObjectiveWe assessed the collateral impact of the COVID−19 pandemic on healthcare service use among people with disabilities.MethodsWe utilized the COVID−19 database from the Korean National Health Insurance Service claims from 2015 until June 2020.
Minjeong Sohn, Heejo Koo, Heekyoung Choi, Hyunsan Cho, Hyunsan Cho, Euna Han   +5 more
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Loneliness and Healthcare Use in Older Adults: Evidence From a Nationally Representative Cohort in Northern Ireland—A Cross-Sectional Replication Study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Few have explored associations between loneliness and healthcare use independent of health and health behaviors. Recent indication of gender effects also requires validation across health service and cultural settings.
Annette Burns, Annette Burns, Gerard Leavey, Roger O'Sullivan, Roger O'Sullivan   +4 more
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Polypharmacy in African American Adults: A National Epidemiological Study

Pharmacy, 2019
Background: Despite the association between polypharmacy and undesired health outcomes being well established, very little is known about epidemiology of polypharmacy in the African American community.
Shervin Assari, Hamid Helmi, Mohsen Bazargan   +2 more
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Health insurance and health system (un) responsiveness: a qualitative study with elderly in rural Tanzania

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Health insurance (HI) has increasingly been accepted as a mechanism to facilitate access to healthcare in low and middle-income countries.
Paul Joseph Amani, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Gasto Frumence, Angwara Denis Kiwara, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastiån   +5 more
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Sex and age differences in the Multiple Sclerosis prodrome

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
Background and objectivesLittle is known of the potential sex and age differences in the MS prodrome. We investigated sex and age differences in healthcare utilization during the MS prodrome.MethodsThis was a population-based matched cohort study linking
Fardowsa L. A. Yusuf, Fardowsa L. A. Yusuf, José M. A. Wijnands, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Elaine Kingwell, Elaine Kingwell, Feng Zhu, Charity Evans, John D. Fisk, Yinshan Zhao, Ruth Ann Marrie, Helen Tremlett   +12 more
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Association Between Physicians’ Appropriate Use of Echocardiography and Subsequent Healthcare Use and Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background There is little understanding of whether a physician's tendency to order an inappropriate cardiac service is associated with the use of other cardiac services and clinical outcomes in their patients with heart failure (HF). Methods and Results
Tharmegan Tharmaratnam, Zachary Bouck, Atul Sivaswamy, Harindra C. Wijeysundera, Cherry Chu, Cindy X. Yin, Gillian C. Nesbitt, Jeremy Edwards, Kibar Yared, Brian Wong, Adina Weinerman, Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan, Harry Rakowski, Paul Dorian, Geoff Anderson, Peter C. Austin, David M. Dudzinski, Dennis T. Ko, Rory B. Weiner, R. Sacha Bhatia   +19 more
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Use of Cross-Border Healthcare Services by Elderly Turkish Migrants in Denmark: A Qualitative Study and Some Critical Reflections about Public Health ‘Concerns’

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2020
Cross-border healthcare use among elderly Turkish migrants living in Denmark has been of concern in regards to their compliance with Danish healthcare provisions.
Anna Leonora Blaakilde, Signe Smith Jervelund, Suzan Yazici, Signe Gronwald Petersen, Allan Krasnik   +4 more
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