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Statistical and Clinical Aspects of Hospital Outcomes Profiling

, 2007
Hospital profiling involves a comparison of a health care provider's structure, processes of care, or outcomes to a standard, often in the form of a report card.
Normand, Sharon-Lise T., Shahian, David M.   +1 more
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Financial access to health care in Karuzi, Burundi: a household-survey based performance evaluation. [PDF]

, 2009
: BACKGROUND: In 2003, Médecins Sans Frontières, the provincial government, and the provincial health authority began a community project to guarantee financial access to primary health care in Karuzi province, Burundi. The project used a community-based
Bachy, Catherine, Lambert-Evans, Sophie, Philips, Mit, Ponsar, Frederique, Reid, Tony, Van Herp, Michel   +5 more
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Safe use of symbols in handover documentation for medical teams [PDF]

, 2011
Concern has been reported about the safe use of medical abbreviations in documents such as handover sheets and medical notes, especially when information is being communicated between staff of different specialties (BBC 2008, Sheppard et al. 2008).
Cohen M. R., Julia Galliers, Kane B., Lilley L., Peter Woodward, Petersen L. A., Rebecca Randell, Stephanie Wilson, Wilson S.   +8 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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Improvement of Timeliness of Inpatient Discharge Summary in an Inner-City Urban Community Hospital

Journal of Scientific Innovation in Medicine, 2021
Background: Discharge summary (DS) plays a central role in transition of care between inpatient and outpatient settings and is a patient safety issue [1, 2]. Baseline data showed that 80% by cycle 7.
I. Elmubarak, R. Akiyode, A. Milad, A. Gardezi, F. Hamada, T. Rai, S. Manwani   +6 more
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Cytomegalovirus infection is common in prostate cancer and antiviral therapies inhibit progression in disease models

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Human cytomegalovirus infection is common in normal prostate epithelium, prostate tumor tissue, and prostate cancer cell lines. CMV promotes cell survival, proliferation, and androgen receptor signaling. Anti‐CMV pharmaceutical compounds in clinical use inhibited cell expansion in prostate cancer models in vitro and in vivo, motivating investigation ...
Johanna Classon, Moa Stenudd, Margherita Zamboni, Kanar Alkass, Carl‐Johan Eriksson, Lars Pedersen, Alrik Schörling, Anna Thoss, Anders Bergh, Pernilla Wikström, Hans‐Olov Adami, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Henrik Druid, Jonas Frisén   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL CASES OF LIFE-THREATENING WOMEN: FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF METHODOLOGY TO LEARNING LESSONS

Паёми Сино, 2018
Objective: Examining the results of implementing a new methodology of analysis of critical cases in the work of an obstetric hospital in order to prevent the occurrence of deadly conditions in the maternity obstetric services and to improving emergency ...
G.T. RASULOVA, D.M. RAKHMATULLOEVA, S.M. MARD ONOVA   +2 more
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Preferences for post‐traumatic osteoarthritis prevention strategies in individuals with anterior cruciate ligament injury

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives There is growing interest in evaluating new strategies to delay or prevent post‐traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) in individuals who have sustained anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. This study sought to determine characteristics of potential treatments that are acceptable to patients with ACL injury.
Kevin Kennedy, Lily Waddell, Adam Easterbrook, Jeffrey N. Katz, Cale Jacobs, Morgan Jones, Faith Selzer, Elena Losina, Liana Fraenkel, Nick Bansback   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is transcription of data on antiretroviral treatment from electronic to paper-based registers reliable in Malawi? [PDF]

, 2011
SETTING: Antiretroviral treatment (ART) clinics at one central hospital, three district hospitals and one mission hospital in the central and southern regions of Malawi.
Chimbwandira, F, Douglas, G P, Gadabu, O J, Gondwe, A, Gudmund-Hinderaker, S, Jahn, A, Lewis, Z L, Lungu, M, Makombe, S D, Malisita, K, Mhango, E, Moyo, C, Mumba, S, Munthali, C V, Mwalwanda, L, Tenthani, L, Twea, H, Zachariah, R   +17 more
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