Assessment of Health Care Exposures and Outcomes in Adult Patients With Sepsis and Septic Shock [PDF]
JAMA Network Open, 2020 Current information on the characteristics of patients who develop sepsis may help in identifying opportunities to improve outcomes. Most recent studies of sepsis epidemiology have focused on changes in incidence or have used administrative data sets that provided limited patient-level data.To describe sepsis epidemiology in adults.This retrospective ...
Lucy E. Wilson +30 more
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An audit of the quality of inpatient care for adults with learning disability in the UK [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVES: To audit patient hospital records to evaluate the performance of acute general and mental health services in delivering inpatient care to people with learning disability and explore the influence of organisational factors on the quality of ...
Burnell, M +9 more
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Assessing outcomes of ear molding therapy by health care providers and convolutional neural network [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 AbstractEar molding therapy is a nonsurgical technique to correct certain congenital auricular deformities. While the advantages of nonsurgical treatments over otoplasty are well-described, few studies have assessed aesthetic outcomes. In this study, we compared assessments of outcomes of ear molding therapy for 283 ears by experienced healthcare ...
Alex A. Kane +12 more
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Assessment of canine health and preventative care outcomes of a community medicine program [PDF]
Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2018 The objective of this study was to assess if use of a community based veterinary medical program (the Tufts at Tech Community Veterinary Clinic) was related to indicators of canine health and well-being in a low-income community through the provision of low-cost preventative care.
Megan Kiely Mueller +3 more
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Diversity and Regional Inequalities: Assessing the Outcomes of the Spanish 'System of Health Care Services' [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 The consolidation of a universal health system coupled with a process of regional devolution characterise the institutional reforms of the National Health System (NHS) in Spain in the last two decades. However, scarce empirical evidence has been reported on the effects of both changes in health inputs, outputs and outcomes, both at the country and at ...
Guillem López +2 more
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The Schizophrenia Care and Assessment Program Health Questionnaire (SCAP-HQ): An Instrument to Assess Outcomes of Schizophrenia Care [PDF]
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2003 Advances in treatment technologies and development of evidence-based standards of care demand better methods for routine assessment of outcomes for schizophrenia in systems of care. This article describes the development and psychometrics of a new instrument to assess outcomes of routine care for persons with schizophrenia in service systems. Candidate
Ellen P. Fischer +6 more
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Quality of life as an instrument for need assessment and outcome assessment of health care in chronic patients [PDF]
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 1999 Introduction Quality of life is generally acknowledged as a central concept in health care, but its full application in healthcare research and clinical practice are still being debated. With an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the focus of health care expanding from “adding years to life” to “adding life to years”, there is a growing ...
G.A.M. van den Bos, A. H. M. Triemstra
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The Assessment and Impact of Careless Responding in Routine Outcome Monitoring within Mental Health Care [PDF]
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2019 Careless responding by mental health patients on self-report assessments is rarely investigated in routine care despite the potential for serious consequences such as faulty clinical decisions. We investigated validity indices most appropriate for detecting careless responding in routine outcome monitoring (ROM) in mental health-care.
Conijn, J.M. +4 more
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Improving the psychological evaluation of exercise referral: psychometric properties of the Exercise Referral Quality of Life Scale [PDF]
, 2015 There is a growing need to assess the psychological outcomes of exercise referral and the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has called for the routine assessment of life-quality.
Bauman AE +28 more
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Complementary music therapy for cancer patients in at-home palliative care and their caregivers: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial [PDF]
, 2020 Background Patients with advanced cancer, receiving at-home palliative care, are subject to numerous symptoms that are changeable and often require attention, a stressful situation that also impacts on the family caregiver.
Barón López, Francisco Javier +5 more
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