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The association of types of training and practice settings with doctors’ empathy and patient enablement among patients with chronic illness in Hong Kong [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The increase in non-communicable disease (NCD) is becoming a global health problem and there is an increasing need for primary care doctors to look after these patients although whether family doctors are adequately trained and prepared is ...
Fung, Colman S.C., Kung, Kenny, Lam, Augustine T., Mercer, Stewart W., Wong, Carmen K.M., Wong, Samuel Y.S., Yip, Benjamin H.K., Yu, Frances S.K.   +7 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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Patient Flow Analysis in General Hospitals: How Clinical Disciplines Affect Outpatient Wait Times [PDF]

Hospital Practices and Research, 2019
Background: Overcrowding is an important problem for outpatient services in healthcare facilities. Patient flow analysis (PFA) is a useful method for identifying inefficiencies in and facilitating patient flow. Objective: PFA was used to estimate patient
Afsoon Aeenparast, Faranak Farzadi, Farzaneh Maftoon, Hossien Yahyazadeh   +3 more
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Testing for alpha-1 antitrypsin in COPD in outpatient respiratory clinics in Spain: A multilevel, cross-sectional analysis of the EPOCONSUL study [PDF]

, 2018
Background Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is the most common hereditary disorder in adults, but is under-recognized. In Spain, the number of patients diagnosed with AATD is much lower than expected according to epidemiologic studies.
Alcázar Navarrete, Bernardino, Calle Rubio, Myriam, López-Campos Bodineau, José Luis, Rodríguez González-Moro, José Miguel, Rodríguez Hermosa, Juan Luis, Soler-Cataluña, Juan J., Soriano, Joan B.   +6 more
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Does quality of care differ when HIV patients are treated by non-specialist and specialist HIV healthcare providers in developed countries? A Systematic narrative review [PDF]

, 2015
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Okpo, Emmanuel, Poobalan, Amudha, Sokhom, Bossakara, Tonna, Ivan   +3 more
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Time trends in patients managed simultaneously in multiple hospital outpatient specialty clinics for chronic diseases: A register-based cross-sectional study

Journal of Comorbidity, 2019
Background: The increasing prevalence of patients with multimorbidity in the general population affects the health-care system. There is a lack of knowledge of the proportion of patients attending multiple hospital outpatient specialty clinics ...
Donna Lykke Wolff, Christian Von Plessen, Frans Boch Waldorff, Thomas Lund Sørensen, Søren Bie Bogh, Katrine Hass Rubin, Christian Backer Mogensen   +6 more
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The impact of reduced operating room capacity on the time delay of urgent surgical care for neurosurgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic raised major challenges to the management of patient flows and medical staff resource allocation. To prevent the collapse of medical facilities, elective diagnostic and surgical procedures were drastically reduced ...
Daniel Schöni, Marc-Eric Halatsch, Alex Alfieri   +2 more
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The introduction of sickness insurance in Spain in the first decades of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1962) [PDF]

, 2013
[Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This
Pons Pons, Jerònia, Vilar Rodríguez, Margarita   +1 more
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Evaluating Different Strategies on the Blood Collection Counter Settings to Improve Patient Waiting Time in Outpatient Units

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2022
Long patient waiting time is one of the major problems in the healthcare system and it would decrease patient satisfaction. Previous studies usually investigated how to improve the treatment flow in order to reduce patient waiting time or length of stay.
Chih-Hao Chen MS, Yao-Te Tsai PhD, Chun-An Chou PhD, Shao-Jen Weng PhD, Wen-Chin Lee MD, PhD, Li-Wei Hsiao MD, Natan Derek PhD, Chang-Pu Ko MS   +7 more
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Improving Health Care for Patients with Multimorbidity: A Mixed-Methods Study to Explore the Feasibility and Process of Aligning Scheduled Outpatient Appointments through Collaboration between Medical Specialties

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2022
Background: Many patients with multimorbidity have appointments and parallel trajectories in several outpatient clinics across medical specialties. This organisation may disintegrate care and challenges the navigation of the healthcare system.
Cathrine Bell, Charlotte Weiling Appel, Anne Frølich, Anders Prior, Peter Vedsted   +4 more
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