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Measurement of need for care: a trial of the Camberwell Assessment of Need and the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1999
Objective: The accurate assessment of the individual needs of clients has been the focus of increasing discussion in mental health service delivery and evaluation. There is evidence to suggest that clinicians and clients differ in their perceptions of need and that staff assessments alone may not be sufficient for determining need for care. This study
Maree Teesson, Cathy Issakidis
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A Method for Assessing the Impact of a Computer-Based Decision Support System on Health Care Outcomes

Methods of Information in Medicine, 1992
Abstract:The wide variation in utilization of diagnostic resources has not been decreased by the proliferation of new diagnostic technologies. We wish to test the hypothesis that the introduction of a medical decision support system into clinical practice could potentially lead to more efficient use of diagnostic information, and therefore lead to a ...
M A McNeil, R A Bankowitz, J R Lave
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Here comes the SUN: Self‐assessed unmet need, worsening health outcomes, and health care inequity

Health Economics, 2019
SummaryUtilization‐based approaches have predominated the measurement of socioeconomic‐related inequity in health care. This approach, however, can be misleading when preferences over health and health care are correlated with socioeconomic status, especially when the underlying focus is on equity of access.
Grant Gibson   +3 more
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Assessing Health Care Needs and Clinical Outcome With Urological Case Complexity: A Study Using INTERMED

Psychosomatics, 2003
Urinary tract symptoms and, particularly, urinary incontinence are often chronic and complex conditions that cause diagnosis, treatment, and management problems. In many cases, psychosocial factors contribute to the development of a chronic condition. The authors investigated whether INTERMED, an instrument for assessing case complexity and health care
Peter de Jonge   +4 more
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Development and Pilot Outcome Data of a Midlife Women's Health Assessment Clinic: A Comprehensive and Multidisciplinary Approach to Health Care

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 2013
IntroductionAs women enter midlife, health issues and chronic health problems can emerge. The University of Utah Health Science Center's Midlife Women's Health Assessment Clinic was developed to provide a personalized approach to healthy aging by individual assessment, group education, motivational interviewing, and wellness coaching to women.
Catherine Wheeler   +2 more
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EFFECTS OF THE RESIDENT ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT ON THE CARE PROCESS AND HEALTH OUTCOMES IN NURSING HOMES. A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1999
The objective of the paper is to review the effects of the implementation of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) on process measures (quality of care plans and staff satisfaction) and outcome measures (health problems and quality of life) in nursing homes. All available publications on the effects of the RAI were included in the review.
Miel W. Ribbe   +4 more
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Assessing the effects of post-acute rehabilitation services on health care outcomes for people with multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2019
The impact of post-acute rehabilitative services provided in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) on a particularly vulnerable, disabled subgroup, namely persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), is unknown.The objectives of this study were to (1) describe the use of post-acute rehabilitative services in SNFs, and (2) examine the association between the use ...
Tingting Zhang   +5 more
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‘Best clinical practice’: assessment of processes of care and of outcomes in the US Military Health Services System

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 1998
The National Quality Management Program of the Military Health Services System of the United States has undertaken a series of projects whose objective is the active, on‐going monitoring and improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of the care provided to a broad population that encompasses troops on active duty, retirees and dependents.
Jeffrey R Greenwald   +12 more
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Patients' Perceived Control Over Their Health Care: An Outcome Assessment of Their Psychological Adjustment to Renal Failure

American Journal of Medical Quality, 1995
Previous research has sometimes produced conflicting results regarding patients' psychological adjustment to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). It is generally accepted that treatment outcomes vary across treatment modality, with successful transplant patients reporting a higher subjective quality of life than patients on center hemodialysis. Hemodialysis
Anne Weaver   +3 more
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Evaluability Assessment in Health Care: An Example of the Patient Care and Outcome Process

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1995
Abstract: Evaluability assessment is a critical first step toward successful program evaluation. Programs aimed at making difficult and significant changes to important health care services must be open to both the encouragement and the critical review that follow systematic evaluation efforts.
A. Casebeer, W. E. Thurston
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