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Collaboration Routines and Workflows in a National Electronic Prescription System: Qualitative Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research
BackgroundElectronic prescription (EP) systems are supported by health authorities worldwide, and most European countries have started implementing or have fully implemented such systems.
Kristine Lundhaug, Arild Faxvaag, Randi Stokke, Hege Kristin Andreassen   +3 more
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City Rights in an Era of Preemption: A State-by-State Analysis [PDF]

, 2017
In a new report, NLC finds that states limit city power through preemption in a number of policy areas, ranging from labor protections to taxing authority.Preemption is the use of state law to nullify a municipal ordinance or authority.
Angelina Panettieri, Brooks Rainwater, Christiana McFarland, Nicole Dupuis, Trevor Langan   +4 more
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Efficiency potential and determinants of efficiency: An analysis of the care of elderly sector in Norway [PDF]

The paper provides an analysis of efficiency in the care for the elderly sector in Norway. In a first step we perform DEA analysis to calculate the degree of efficiency in each municipality and the national level efficiency potential.
Lars-Erik Borge, Marianne Haraldsvik
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A Long Journey towards Citizenship: District Areas and Social Services in Goteborg [PDF]

, 2008
The main purpose of the present research is to investigate the implemented decentralized model of administration in local areas of Goteborg City and its effects on local welfare, or what I associate with the concept of social citizenship.
Miceli, Alessandro
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Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change [PDF]

, 2017
[Excerpt] Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies ...
McDonald, Ian Thomas
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Predictors, Healthcare Utilization and Costs Related to Short-Term Stays in Patients with COPD: A Registry-Based Analysis in Norway

Clinical Epidemiology
Tron Anders Moger,1 Jon Helgheim Holte,1 Olav Amundsen,2 Silje Bjørnsen Haavaag,2 Øystein Døhl,3,4 Line Kildal Bragstad,5 Ragnhild Hellesø,2 Trond Tjerbo,1 Nina Køpke Vøllestad2 1Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health ...
Moger TA, Holte JH, Amundsen O, Haavaag SB, Døhl Ø, Bragstad LK, Hellesø R, Tjerbo T, Vøllestad NK   +8 more
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Daily physical activity in older adults across levels of care: the HUNT Trondheim 70 + study 

European Review of Aging and Physical Activity
Background Physical activity (PA) is imperative for healthy ageing and is a modifiable lifestyle factor. Accurate, clinically meaningful estimates of daily PA among older adults can inform targeted interventions to maintain function and independence ...
Astrid Ustad, Karen Sverdrup, Gro Gujord Tangen, Øystein Døhl, Beatrix Vereijken, Pernille Thingstad, Nina Skjæret-Maroni   +6 more
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The role of the municipal welfare domain in palliative care: exploring the views of coordinators of Dutch regional palliative care networks

Palliative Care and Social Practice
Background: Collaboration between the healthcare domain and welfare domain could benefit people confronted with an incurable disease residing at home and their informal caregivers, but little is known about this collaboration regarding palliative care ...
Trudy Schutter, Ian Koper, Kris Vissers, Jeroen Hasselaar   +3 more
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Delivering public services. A greater role for the private sector : an exploratory study in four countries [PDF]

, 2015
Barcevicius, Egidijus, Caicedo, Elma, Eurofound (EU body or agency), Public Policy and Management Institute (PPMI)   +3 more
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We Must Do Better: It's Time to Make Alberta Poverty-Free [PDF]

, 2009
This report, authored by Jim Gurnett (in partnership with the ESPC, Public Interest Alberta, and the Bissell Centre), is a follow up to the We Can Do Better report released in 2009. We Must do Better overviews: the results of 5 poverty forums held across
Bill Moore-Kilgannon, Jim Gurnett, John Kolkman   +2 more
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