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Occurrence and recording of genitourinary tract infections during pregnancy

Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 2008
A quantitative descriptive research, whose objective was to verify the occurrence and recording of genitourinary tract infections in pregnant women.
Adriana Kurdejak, Nadia Zanon Narchi
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The elicitation of patient preferences for hip replacement surgery: a discrete choice experiment

BMC Health Services Research
Background The calculation of aggregated composite measures is a widely used approach to reduce the amount of quality-related data on hospital report cards (HRCs).
Stefan Rohrbacher, Martin Emmert
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Digital Cognitive Testing in Mitochondrial Disease: Validity and Challenges for Clinical Trial Use

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Primary mitochondrial disease is a group of genetic disorders caused by pathogenic variants in nuclear or mitochondrial DNA, often resulting in progressive neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Current management is primarily supportive, though recent research offers hope for disease‐modifying treatments in the future.
Oksana Pogoryelova, Jan Smeitink, Herma Renkema, Rosabeth White, Frankie Barton, Rachel Lyon, Jane Newman, Aye Moe, Yi Shiau Ng, Grainne Siobhan Gorman   +9 more
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Australian private healthcare staff perspectives on patient reported experience measures (PREMs): a qualitative interview study

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Objective Patient reported experience measures (PREMs) are common tools utilised in hospitals to support quality improvements, allow consumers to provide feedback on care experiences and can be used to support consumers’ hospital selections.
Krista Verlis, Kirsten McCaffery, Tessa Copp, Rachael Dodd, Brooke Nickel, Rebekah Laidsaar-Powell   +5 more
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Deep Learning Pose Estimation for Phenotyping of Co‐Occurring Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore whether routine outpatient video combined with deep learning‐based pose estimation and clinically interpretable kinematic features can support multi‐label phenotyping of co‐occurring hyperkinetic movement disorders (HMDs).
Laura Cif, Diane Demailly, Gabriella A. Horvàth, Juan Dario Ortigoza Escobar, Nathalie Dorison, Mayté Castro Jiménez, Cécile A. Hubsch, Thomas Wirth, Gun‐Marie Hariz, Sophie Huby, Morgan Dornadic, Zohra Souei, Muhammad Mushhood Ur Rehman, Simone Hemm, Mehdi Boulaymen, Eduardo M. Moraud, Jocelyne Bloch, Xavier Vasques   +17 more
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A methodology to measure hospital quality using physicians' choices over training vacancies [PDF]

, 2006
In this paper, we propose an alternative methodology to rank hospitals based on the choices of Medical Schools graduates over training vacancies. We argue that our measure of relative hospital quality has the following desirable properties: a) robustness
Mora, Ricardo, Machado, Matilde P., Romero-Medina, Antonio   +2 more
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Exploring the factors impacting choice and quality of overnight private hospital stays and consumer perspectives on patient reported experience measures (PREMs) in Australia: a qualitative interview study

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Objectives Patient reported experience measures (PREMs) are tools often utilised in hospitals to support quality improvements and to provide objective feedback on care experiences.
Krista Verlis, Kirsten McCaffery, Tessa Copp, Rachael Dodd, Rebekah Laidsaar-Powell, Brooke Nickel   +5 more
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Evaluation of Dried Plasma Spot‐Based Quantification of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein as a Disease‐Associated Biomarker in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) measured in dried plasma spots versus conventional plasma‐ and serum‐GFAP testing for assessment of disease severity in aquaporin‐4 immunoglobulin G–positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4‐IgG+ NMOSD).
Felix Wohlrab, Evelyn Alvarez, Roua Hamdi, Bingqing Zhang, Hayeun Ji, Niyati Jhaveri, Patrick Schindler, Pedro Sanchez, Pia S. Sperber, Tanja Schmitz‐Hübsch, Frederike C. Oertel, Nisa Vorasoot, Najib Kissani, Falko Böhringer, Jens Kuhle, Anne‐Katrin Pröbstel, Xiao‐Jun Ma, Péter Körtvelyessy, Patrick Waters, Friedemann Paul   +19 more
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Exploring Hospital Willingness and Ability to Use Report Cards [PDF]

, 2018
[[abstract]]目的：本研究指旨在探討台灣醫院使用品質報告卡之意願與指標公佈能力，研究結果可做為政府與民間相關單位未來堆行醫院品質報告卡之參考或依據。材料與方法：本研究以通過醫院評鑑的醫學中心、區域醫院與地區醫院等三層級之醫院（不含精神車科醫院）為研究對象，共有495家醫院，其中包括醫學中心17家，區域醫院62家，地區教學醫院49家，地區醫院367家。本研究採取郵寄問卷的方式蒐集所需的資料，首先對每一個變項進行敘述性分析，其次以克－瓦二氏單因子等級變異數分析(Kruskal-Wallis ...
勞寬;林恆慶;陳楚杰
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Public Report Cards for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest [PDF]

Circulation, 2015
Each year, there are ≈200 000 cardiac arrests in hospitalized patients in the United States1 and survival rates remain very poor. Article see p 1415 In this issue of Circulation , Kolte et al2 present new findings about regional variability in resuscitation rates and outcomes across the United States.
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