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Barriers for vaccination of healthcare workers

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
Outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in hospital settings remain a challenge even in countries with established (childhood-) vaccination programs.
Anna Korsgaard Eltvedt, Anja Poulsen, Thilde Nordmann Winther, Marie-Louise Von Linstow   +3 more
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Improving the quality of clinical coding and payments through student doctor–coder collaboration in a tertiary haematology department

BMJ Open Quality, 2020
Hospitals within the UK are paid for services provided by ‘Payment-by-Results’. In a system that rewards productivity, effective collaboration between coders and clinicians is crucial. However, clinical coding is frequently error prone and has been shown
Suha Abdulla, Natalie Simon, Kelvin Woodhams, Carla Hayman, Mohamed Oumar, Lucy Rose Howroyd, Gulshan Cindy Sethi   +6 more
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As easy as ABC: evaluation of safe sleep initiative on safe sleep compliance in a freestanding pediatric hospital

Injury Epidemiology, 2019
Background The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends the ABCs of safe infant sleep (alone, back, clear crib) to combat the increasing rates of Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID).
Traci Leong, Manon Billaud, Maneesha Agarwal, Terri Miller, Terri McFadden, Jonathan Johnson, Sarah Gard Lazarus   +6 more
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Effects on incident reporting after educating residents in patient safety: a controlled study

BMC Health Services Research, 2011
Background Medical residents are key figures in delivering health care and an important target group for patient safety education. Reporting incidents is an important patient safety domain, as awareness of vulnerabilities could be a starting point for ...
Jansma José D, Wagner Cordula, ten Kate Reinier W, Bijnen Arnold B   +3 more
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Ranking hospital performance based on individual indicators: can we increase reliability by creating composite indicators?

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019
Background Report cards on the health care system increasingly report provider-specific performance on indicators that measure the quality of health care delivered.
Peter C. Austin, Iris E. Ceyisakar, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Hester F. Lingsma, Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen   +4 more
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The informatics pathway for hospital infection quality control monitoring

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveTo analyze the results and current status of hospital infection monitoring and quality control work at a tertiary specialized cancer hospital, providing references for further improvement of HAI monitoring quality.MethodsCombined information ...
Hui Wang, Qin Huang, Qingqing Tian, Weiwei Yang, Anran Liu, Jiayang Tang, Hailin Zhang, Chunlin Wu   +7 more
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Hospital performance reports based on severity adjusted mortality rates in patients with cirrhosis depend on the method of risk adjustment

Annals of Hepatology, 2012
Background. Hospital outcome report cards are used to judge provider performance, including for liver transplantation. We aimed to determine the impact of the choice of risk adjustment method on hospital rankings based on mortality rates in cirrhotic ...
Robert P. Myers, James N. Hubbard, Abdel Aziz M. Shaheen, Elijah Dixon, Gilaad G. Kaplan   +4 more
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BMT4me En Español: Multisite Feasibility and Usability Testing of a Spanish‐Language mHealth Adherence Support App for Spanish‐Speaking Caregivers of Children After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cancer Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Medication nonadherence during the first 100 days after pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and during oncology treatment increases risk for complications. BMT4me is a caregiver‐facing mobile health (mHealth) application providing medication reminders, symptom tracking, and note‐taking features to support ...
Micah A. Skeens, Madeline R. Peek, Bianca Franklin, Emre Sezgin, Melissa Beauchemin   +4 more
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The patient voice: a survey of worries and anxieties during health system transition in HIV services in Vietnam

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2020
Background Vietnam is shifting toward integrating HIV services into the public health system using social health insurance (SHI), and the HIV service delivery system is becoming decentralized.
Shoko Matsumoto, Hoai Dung Thi Nguyen, Dung Thi Nguyen, Giang Van Tran, Junko Tanuma, Daisuke Mizushima, Kinh Van Nguyen, Shinichi Oka   +7 more
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ASSIST: Refinement of a Benefits Navigator Intervention Among Low‐Income Pediatric Oncology Families

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Children with cancer living in poverty experience worse survival and quality of life. Interventions connecting low‐income families to benefits (e.g., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] improve health outcomes; yet nearly 50% of SNAP‐eligible pediatric oncology families are unenrolled.
Puja J. Umaretiya, Selena Murcia Mendez, Jennifer Kellett, Sarah Wright, Marisel Ponton, Robin T. Higashi, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Ayesha Zia, Joanne Wolfe, Sandi L. Pruitt, Kira Bona   +11 more
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