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Self-reported impact of caregiving on voluntary home-based caregivers in Mutale Municipality, South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2016
Background: The establishment of home-based care (HBC) programmes in developing countries has resulted in a shift of burden from hospitals to communities where palliative care is provided by voluntary home-based caregivers.
Ntsieni S. Mashau, Vhonani O. Netshandama, Makondelela J. Mudau   +2 more
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Investigation and influencing factors of the behavioral intention of nurses voluntarily participating in the care of older adults with disabilities

International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2023
Objectives: This study aimed to analyze nurses’ intention and influencing factors to participate in voluntary care services for older adults with disabilities, and build a structural equation model to clarify the influence of behavioral attitude ...
Hengmei Cui, Rui Sun, Yaling Wang, Lu Lin, Ran Duo, Yuchen Li, Fei Ma, Huiling Li   +7 more
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Increase in coercive measures in psychiatric hospitals in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PLoS ONE, 2022
ObjectiveTo examine whether the pandemic in 2020 caused changes in psychiatric hospital cases, the percentage of patients exposed to coercive interventions, and aggressive incidents.MethodsWe used the case registry for coercive measures of the State of ...
Erich Flammer, Frank Eisele, Sophie Hirsch, Tilman Steinert   +3 more
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A Relação da Acreditação com o Isomorfismo Institucional e com os Artefatos de Contabilidade Gerencial nos Hospitais da Região Sul do Brasil

Desenvolvimento em Questão, 2018
The paper aims to investigate the relationship of hospital accreditation with institutional isomorphism and traditional and modern management accounting artifacts in southern Brazil hospitals.
Marcia Zanievicz da Silva, Andréia Carpes Dani, Cleston Alexandre dos Santos   +2 more
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A study of the noncompliance of blood banks on safety and quality parameters in blood donation camps in Bengaluru

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2015
Aims: The compliance of safety and quality parameters laid out by national and international guidelines in outdoor blood donation camps has not been studied in India.
Rajat Kumar Agarwal, Rakesh Dhanya, Lalith G Parmar, Arpit Vaish, Amit Sedai, Sundar Periyavan   +5 more
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Evaluating the Role of Exercise and Practicing Religious Beliefs on Medical Staff Anxiety Caused by Coronavirus

بهداشت کار و ارتقای سلامت, 2022
Background: Due to the increase of anxiety caused by COVID 19 in medical staff, it is necessary to identify and develop strategies to deal with anxiety among them.
Eskandar HOSSEINPOUR, Samad GODARZI
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Hospital-based school for children with chronic illness in Taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2015
To provide educational support and avoid unwanted damage that may impede learning for children with chronic illness, the learning environment should be friendly and safe.
Der-Fang Chen, Tsuen-Chiuan Tsai, Yu-Tsun Su, Chi-Wei Lin   +3 more
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Perceived barriers to the regionalization of adult critical care in the United States: a qualitative preliminary study

BMC Health Services Research, 2008
Background Regionalization of adult critical care services may improve outcomes for critically ill patients. We sought to develop a framework for understanding clinician attitudes toward regionalization and potential barriers to developing a tiered ...
Rubenfeld Gordon D, Iwashyna Theodore J, Asch Rebecca J, Kahn Jeremy M, Angus Derek C, Asch David A   +5 more
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Africa’s challenged ENT services: highlighting challenges in Zambia

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Diseases of the ear, nose and throat (ENT) are common and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In many low income countries like Zambia, the high ENT disease burden has not received the required resources for treatment.
Lufunda Lukama, Chester Kalinda, Colleen Aldous   +2 more
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Effect Heterogeneity in Responding to Performance-Based Incentives: A Quasi-Experimental Comparison of Impacts on Health Service Indicators Between Hospitals and Health Centers in Malawi

Health Systems & Reform, 2020
Heterogeneity of effects produced by performance-based incentives (PBIs) at different levels of care provision is not well understood. This study analyzes effect heterogeneities between different facility types resulting from a PBI program in Malawi ...
Stephan Brenner, Rachel P. Chase, Shannon A. McMahon, Julia Lohmann, Christopher J. Makwero, Adamson S. Muula, Manuela De Allegri   +6 more
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