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CARE-PACT: a new paradigm of care for acutely unwell residents 
in aged care facilities [PDF]

, 2015
Describes the Comprehensive Aged Residents Emergency and Partners in Assessment, Care and Treatment (CARE-PACT) program: a hospital substitutive care and demand management project that aims to improve, in a fiscally efficient manner, the quality of care ...
Ellen Burkett, Ian Scott
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Nontraumatic Dental Condition-related Visits to Emergency Departments on Weekdays, Weekends and Night Hours: Findings from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey [PDF]

, 2013
Objective: To determine whether the rates of nontraumatic dental condition (NTDC)-related emergency department (ED) visits are higher during the typical working hours of dental offices and lower during night hours, as well as the associated factors ...
Fischer, Melissa Christine, Okunseri, Christopher, Okunseri, Elaye, Sadeghi, Saba Noori, Szabo, Aniko, Xiang, Qun   +5 more
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Implementing Health‐Related Quality of Life Assessment in Pediatric Oncology: A Feasibility Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background There is growing interest in embedding health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment and patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) within clinical cancer care. This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of implementing an electronic PROM (ePROM) platform to measure HRQoL in children with cancer ...
Mikaela Doig, Sophie Jessop, Jordan R. Hansford, Hien Le, Matthew O'Connor, Peter Gorayski, Andrew Cunningham, Amanda Hutchinson, Victoria Bedford, Eva Bezak, Nayana Parange, Kelly Skelton, Timothy Price, Michala Short   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A hierarchical facility layout planning approach for large and complex hospitals [PDF]

, 2014
The transportation processes for patients, personnel, and material in large and complex maximum-care hospitals with many departments can consume significant resources and thus induce substantial logistics costs.
Böhme, Daniel, Helber, Stefan, Kasper, Steffen, Lagershausen, Svenja, Oucherif, Farid   +4 more
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Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez, Jill O. Robinson, Wendy A. Allen‐Rhoades, Hadley S. Smith, Isabel Canfield, Rebecca L. Hsu, Sarah R. Scollon, Lauren R. Desrosiers‐Battu, Nicole M. Schneider, Frank Y. Lin, Donald Williams Parsons, Sharon E. Plon, Mary A. Majumder, Janet Malek, Amy L. McGuire   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nosocomial Outbreaks Caused by Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
From July 2003 through October 2004, 42 patients became infected by strains of Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides (genotype 1) in different departments of Juan Canalejo Hospital in northwest Spain. During 2006, 6 inpatients, also in different
Germán Bou, Jesús Luis Saleta, Juan Antonio Sáez Nieto, Mar Tomás, Silvia Valdezate, Dolores Sousa, Francisco Lueiro, Rosa Villanueva, Maria Jose Pereira, Pedro Llinares   +9 more
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Cognitive Functioning in Vorinostat‐Treated Pediatric and Young Adult Patients Over the First 180 Days After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Cognitive and psychological difficulties could negatively interfere with treatment adherence and quality of life before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods to mitigate these changes may have positive effects on treatment success.
Kristen L. Votruba, Michelle Rozwadowski, Thomas Braun, April Rahrig, Edward Peres, Kirsten M. Williams, Vanessa Fabrizio, Julie‐An Talano, Carrie L. Kitko, Nicolas Parnell, Pavan Reddy, Sung Won Choi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Preparedness of Hospital Emergency Departments for Responding to Disasters in Iran; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019
Introduction: Hospitals are the most important infrastructures of any society. The hospital emergency department is one of the most important wards of hospitals in response to disasters.
Mosayeb Kazemzadeh, Elham Shafiei, Katayoun Jahangiri, Kosar Yousefi, Ali Sahebi   +4 more
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Access to mental health care in El Salvador: a case study of progress toward decentralization

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2018
Objective. To assess the need for decentralization of psychiatric services in El Salvador, based on country-specific evidence, and to generate baseline measures the government and researchers could use to monitor and measure future progress toward ...
Samuel V. Nickels, Mariely Campos Tomasino, Nelson A. Flamenco Arvaiza, Cynthia A. Hunter   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Policy Implications of Freestanding Emergency Departments [PDF]

, 2015
Policymakers have a responsibility to look at both the short- and long-term implications of their decisions. The state’s current fiscal situation, coupled with rising health-care costs makes “budget neutrality” highly desirable in decision-making.
Frazier, Rosyland, Guettabi, Mouhcine
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