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Process versus outcome indicators in the assessment of quality of health care [PDF]
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2001 This paper reviews the relative strengths and weaknesses of outcome and process measures as performance indicators in health care. Differences in outcome may be due to case mix, how the data were collected, chance, or quality of care. Health care is only one determinant of health and other factors have important effects on health outcomes, such as ...
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Quality assessment of prenatal and puerperium care [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2023 Objective To evaluate prenatal and puerperium care levels received and identify their association with sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics.
Marcilene de Paula +1 more
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JAMA Network Open, 2023 ImportanceMany clinical trial outcomes are documented in free-text electronic health records (EHRs), making manual data collection costly and infeasible at scale. Natural language processing (NLP) is a promising approach for measuring such outcomes efficiently, but ignoring NLP-related misclassification may lead to underpowered studies.ObjectiveTo ...
Lee, Robert Y. +8 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasing and represents one of the world’s major challenges. AMR increase morbimortality, length of hospital stay and costs.
Amanda Fonseca Medeiros +14 more
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Singapore Medical Journal, 2023 Introduction: Primary care physicians face the increasing burden of managing multimorbidities in an ageing population. Implementing an integrated care team (ICT) with defined roles and accountability to share consultation tasks is an emerging care model ...
Pei Lin Hu +6 more
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The early impact of therapeutic alliance in brief psychodynamic psychotherapy [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2003 INTRODCTION: Therapeutic alliance is a key component of the psychotherapeutic process. This study estimated the impact of the therapeutic alliance as measured by CALPAS-P in an individual brief psychodynamic psychotherapy program.
José Alvaro Marques Marcolino +1 more
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Performance evaluation of tuberculosis control in Brazilian municipalities [PDF]
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2022 OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of tuberculosis control in Brazilian municipalities. METHODS This is an ecological study on Brazilian municipalities that notified at least four new cases of tuberculosis, with a minimum of one new case of ...
Priscila Fernanda Porto Scaff Pinto +7 more
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Advances in Rheumatology, 2023 Background Management delays imply worse outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and, therefore, should be minimized. We evaluated changes in diagnostic and treatment delays regarding RA in the last decades in Brazil.
Cleandro Pires de Albuquerque +14 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 The present study aimed to evaluate the body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness of overweight or obese people after COVID-19. 171 volunteers of both sexes (men, n = 93 and women, n = 78) between 19 and 65 years old were allocated into three groups
Maurício Medeiros Lemos +20 more
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Evaluation of pain in outpatient diagnostic hysteroscopy with gas [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2010 Objective: To evaluate the intensity of pain reported by patients undergoing outpatient diagnostic hysteroscopy. Methods: Exam performed with a 5-mm lens hysteroscope, vaginal speculum, tenaculum and uterine distention with carbon dioxide gas.
Daniela Barreto Fraguglia Quental Diniz +5 more
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