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The appropriateness of antimicrobial use in the outpatient clinics of three hospitals in the Netherlands

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2020
Objectives Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs commonly have an in-hospital focus. Little is known about the quality of antimicrobial use in hospital outpatient clinics.
Annemieke K. van den Broek, Reinier M. van Hest, Kamilla D. Lettinga, Afra Jimmink, Fanny N. Lauw, Caroline E. Visser, Jan M. Prins   +6 more
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A prescription survey in a hospital hypertension outpatient clinic [PDF]

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1997
Aims The objective of this study was to investigate drug utilization in the management of hypertension in Hong Kong. Methods We conducted a prescription survey to examine the use of antihypertensive drugs in a hypertension clinic in a regional hospital and the resulting expenditure incurred. The use of concurrent medications such as antidiabetic drugs
P K, Lee, R K, Li, J C, Chan, S, Chang, S C, Lee, B, Tomlinson, J A, Critchley   +6 more
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Hospital doctors’ and general practitioners’ perspectives of outpatient discharge processes in Australia: an interpretive approach

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Unnecessary delays in patient discharge from hospital outpatient clinics have direct consequences for timely access of new patients and the length of outpatient waiting times.
Edwin Kruys, Chiung-Jung (Jo) WU
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Prevalence and factors associated with missed hospital appointments: a retrospective review of multiple clinics at Royal Hospital, Sultanate of Oman

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives Missed hospital appointments pose a major challenge for healthcare systems. There is a lack of information about drivers of missed hospital appointments in non-Western countries and extent of variability between different types of clinics. The
Tjeerd Van Staa, Victoria Palin, Ahmed Alawadhi   +2 more
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Today’s referral is tomorrow’s repeat patient: referrals to and between medical outpatient clinics in a hospital

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Unnecessary referrals in Danish hospitals may be contributing to inefficient use of health services already stretched and under pressure and may lead to delayed treatment for patients.
Mariam Safi, Robyn Clay-Williams, Bettina Ravnborg Thude, Julija Vaisman, Frans Brandt   +4 more
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An evaluation of pharmacist activity in hospital outpatient clinics [PDF]

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 2021
AbstractMultidisciplinary healthcare teams embedded into outpatient clinics enhance patient outcomes; it is therefore important that when medications are a focus of treatment in these clinics that clinical pharmacists are included in the team. At the start of the 2019/2020 financial year, the Princess Alexandra Hospital added 13 clinic pharmacist ...
Centaine L. Snoswell, Megan J. Draper, Michael Barras   +2 more
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The impact of postpartum obsessive-compulsive symptoms on child development and the mediating role of the parent–child relationship: A prospective longitudinal study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundThe first 2 years of life are a particularly sensitive period for the parent–child relationship as well as a healthy, age-appropriate child development.
Sophie Blum, Judith T. Mack, Victoria Weise, Marie Kopp, Eva Asselmann, Julia Martini, Julia Martini, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susan Garthus-Niegel   +9 more
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Design and methods of the ‘monitoring outcomes of psychiatric pharmacotherapy’ (MOPHAR) monitoring program – a study protocol

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background At many outpatient departments for psychiatry worldwide, standardized monitoring of the safety of prescribed psychotropic drugs is not routinely performed in daily clinical practice.
Mirjam Simoons, Henricus G. Ruhé, Eric N. van Roon, Robert A. Schoevers, Richard Bruggeman, Daniëlle C. Cath, Diny Muis, Johan Arends, Bennard Doornbos, Hans Mulder   +9 more
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Quality of Diabetes Care at Outpatient Clinic, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital

Oman Medical Journal, 2015
Objective: To assess the clinical care of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) patients at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH), a countrywide tertiary referral center in Muscat, Oman.
Sawsan Al-Sinani, Ali Al-Mamari, Nicolas Woodhouse, Omaiyma Al-Shafie, Fatima Amar, Mohammed Al-Shafaee, Mohammed Hassan, Riad Bayoumi   +7 more
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Patients' Views on how to Run Hospital Outpatient Clinics [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1991
To investigate patients' views and expectations when attending outpatient clinics a questionnaire-based study was performed. The questionnaires asked about appointment systems, continuity of care, staff appearance, chaperons and medical students. Patients wanted fixed appointment times, to see the same doctor on successive visits, for the staff to be ...
F, Bishop, F J, Matthews, C S, Probert, J, Billett, T, Battcock, S D, Frisby, J F, Mayberry   +6 more
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