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High Health Care Utilization Preceding Diagnosis With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Although early diagnosis improves long‐term outcomes, patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) often experience prolonged, circuitous paths to diagnosis. To inform diagnostic improvement, we sought to characterize health care utilization in the year preceding diagnosis. Methods We identified 10,021 patients with an incident diagnosis
Anna Costello, Rui Xiao, Xuemei Zhang, Jahan Jazayeri, Irit R. Rasooly, Pamela F. Weiss   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

IJCM_240A: A cross sectional study to assess the health literacy among adults attending outpatient clinics at a government tertiary care hospital in urban Bangalore.

Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Background: WHO defines health literacy as cognitive and social skills that determine the motivation and ability of people to understand, gain access and use the information to obtain good health.
Vishnu Jayarajan, Jyothi Jadhav, TS Ranganath   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

INFLUENCE OF PATIENTS’ PREHOSPITAL ATTENDANCE AT OUTPATIENT CLINICS ON LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME: LIS-3 STUDY

Рациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологии, 2017
Aim. To assess influence of patients’ prehospital attendance at outpatient clinics on long-term outcomes of acute coronary syndrome (ACS).Material and methods. Patients (n=397) hospitalized with ACS (01.11.2013-31.07.2015) were included.
Yu. V. Semenova, N. P. Kutishenko, A. V. Zagrebelnyy, M. L. Ginzburg, A. D. Deev, S. Yu. Martsevich   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thyroid Radiology Practice: Diagnosis and Interventional Treatment of Patients with Thyroid Nodules

대한영상의학회지, 2020
Thyroid radiology practice is a medical practice in which thyroid diseases are diagnosed using imaging modality and treated by imaging-based interventional techniques, and the primary care target is thyroid nodular disease. Diagnosis of thyroid nodules
Jung Hwan Baek, Dong Gyu Na
doaj   +1 more source

Do Health Care Providers Quality Discriminate? Empirical Evidence from Primary Care Outpatient Clinics [PDF]

There has been minimal attention paid to the mechanisms of hospital quality oversight that are currently in place. Accordingly this study will analyze the system of hospital quality regulation in the US.
Christopher Stevens, Robert Rosenman, Daniel Friesner   +2 more
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Assessing the Sensitivity and the Clinical Impact of the 2023 American College of Rheumatology/EULAR Classification Criteria in Obstetric Antiphospholid Syndrome: Findings From a Multicenter Italian Cohort With a Long‐Term Follow‐Up

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the 2023 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/EULAR classification criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in a real‐world cohort of women diagnosed with primary obstetric APS (oAPS) and to assess their ability to identify patients at risk of future pregnancy complications ...
Francesca Ruffilli, Cecilia Nalli, Francesca Crisafulli, Carlo Garaffoni, Marcello Govoni, Giulia Voltarel, Alba C. Pozzi, Beatrice Maranini, Ettore Silvagni, Alessandra Bortoluzzi, Angela Tincani   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment Outcomes and Costs of Providing Antiretroviral Therapy at a Primary Health Clinic versus a Hospital-Based HIV Clinic in South Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundIn 2010 South Africa revised its HIV treatment guidelines to allow the initiation and management of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) by nurses, rather than solely doctors, under a program called NIMART (Nurse Initiated and Managed ...
Lawrence C Long, Sydney B Rosen, Alana Brennan, Faith Moyo, Celeste Sauls, Denise Evans, Shookdev L Modi, Ian Sanne, Matthew P Fox   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing innovation in the UK National Health Service A case study in patient compliance [PDF]

Missed appointments are a common form of patient non-compliance. One reason often given is they had been forgotten. We evaluate two recent innovations to address this problem introduced at one of the Scottish health boards to increase compliance at ...
Stewart Cully, Robin Milne
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A paediatric telecardiology service for district hospitals in south-east England: an observational study.

, 2008
The attached article is a Publisher version of the final published version which may be accessed at the link below. Copyright © 2010 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Young, TC, Young, TA, Rowlinson, G., Mistry, Hema, Dowie, Robin, Young, Tara, Weatherburn, G, Franklin, RC, Mistry, M., Franklin, R.C.G.G., Franklin, R. C. G., Weatherburn, G., Young, T. A., Dowie, R, Rigby, M, Mistry, H, Rigby, M., Young, T., Franklin, RCG, Dowie, R., Rowlinson, G, Weatherburn, Gwyn   +21 more
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Biopsychosocial Determinants of Hand Function and Its Trajectories Over Five Years in Patients With Hand Osteoarthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to investigate hand function trajectories over five years in primary hand osteoarthritis (OA). Additionally, determinants of baseline and longitudinal hand function were assessed. Methods A total of 538 patients with both baseline and five‐year study visits were analyzed.
Annemiek V. E. M. Olde Meule, Coen van der Meulen, Jos Runhaar, Frits R. Rosendaal, Margreet Kloppenburg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source