Community Hospitals in Selected High Income Countries: A Scoping Review of Approaches and Models [PDF]
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2016 Background: There is no single definition of a community hospital in the UK, despite its long history. We sought to understand the nature and scope of service provision in community hospitals, within the UK and other high-income countries.
Eleanor M Winpenny +7 more
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Integrating Neurology, Palliative Care and Emergency Services in ALS: A Community-Integrated Neuropalliative Pathway in Modena, Italy [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes severe motor, respiratory and communication impairment and imposes a high psychosocial burden on patients and families.
Gianfranco Martucci +6 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Introduction Implementing Kaizen can improve productivity in healthcare but maintaining long-term results has proven challenging. This study aimed to assess improved performance achieved and sustained by Kaizen events and find explanatory factors for the
Elina Reponen +2 more
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The current status of cancer survivorship care and a consideration of appropriate care model in Korea [PDF]
Korean Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2014 As cancer treatments are developed, cancer survivors are increasing very rapidly. It is assumed that there are now more than 1,000,000 cancer survivors in Korea.
Ji Eun Lee, Dong Wook Shin, Be Long Cho
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The challenge of outsourcing of hospital services in Iran: A qualitative study
Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Outsourcing, as one of the important managerial strategies to improve performance, has become one of the main areas of research in hospital management studies.
Noureddin Niknam +2 more
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Patient experience with outpatient encounters at public hospitals in Shanghai: Examining different aspects of physician services and implications of overcrowding. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 BACKGROUND:Over 90% of outpatient care in China was delivered at public hospitals, making outpatient experience in this setting an important aspect of quality of care. OBJECTIVE:To assess outpatient experience with different aspects of physician services
Yuhua Bao +4 more
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Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 2023 Background: Glomerulonephritis (GN) represents a common cause of chronic kidney disease, and treatment to slow or prevent progression of GN is associated with significant morbidity.
Bryce Barr +4 more
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BMJ Open Quality, 2021 Background In healthcare, there is increasing recognition of the importance of developing and testing strategies to scale effective interventions. The NHS long-term plan (2019) acknowledges that often a gold standard approach to a problem already exists ...
Cathy Winter +8 more
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Integrated Care in England – what can we Learn from a Decade of National Pilot Programmes?
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2021 Introduction: For more than a decade the English NHS has pursued integrated care through three national pilot programmes. The independent evaluators of these programmes here identify several common themes that inform the development of integrated care ...
Richard Q. Lewis +6 more
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A discrete event simulation model to evaluate the use of community services in the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease in the United Kingdom. [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: The number of people affected by Parkinson's disease (PD) is increasing in the United Kingdom driven by population ageing. The treatment of the disease is complex, resource intensive and currently there is no known cure to PD.
Ahmad, R. +4 more
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