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Shared Care Dyadic Intervention: Outcome Patterns for Heart Failure Care Partners [PDF]
, 2012 Up to half of heart failure (HF) patients are readmitted to hospitals within 6 months of discharge. Many readmissions are linked to inadequate self-care or family support.
Sebern, Margaret, Woda, Aimee
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Care and compassion at the end of life [PDF]
, 2012 Aim: To examine the provision of the ‘end of life care strategy’ and the perception of provision by patients and carers. Introduction: In determining what constitutes excellence in care at the end of life, one must firstly acknowledge ‘what care and ...
Brown, Michelle
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From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider
Annals of Family Medicine, 2014 The Triple Aim—enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing costs—is widely accepted as a compass to optimize health system performance.
T. Bodenheimer, C. Sinsky
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Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
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A birth cohort study in the Middle East: the Qatari birth cohort study (QBiC) phase I
BMC Public Health, 2017 Background The latest scientific reports raise concerns about the rapidly increasing burden of chronic diseases in the state of Qatar. Pregnant Qatari women often confront complications during pregnancy including gestational diabetes, hypertension ...
Eman Sadoun +5 more
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Canadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada, 2013 Thank you for your recent editorial1 with its entertaining and informative example of patient-centred care (PCC). (Since I already serve ethically sourced coffee and have lovely plants, the only thing lacking in my practice seems to be a leather sofa. . . .) I do position myself as a PCC provider, so I started to think of my own patient interactions
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The Ethics of Using a Live Patient for Dental Board Exams [PDF]
, 2020 Objective: This study will discuss the various viewpoints regarding the ethics of using a live patient for board examination in dentistry. It will expand upon the inconsistency of the exam to include the compromised patient care, dishonorable delay in ...
Christ, Ashley, Gibbs, Aaliyah
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The impact of neighborhood deprivation on patients' unscheduled out-of-hours healthcare seeking behavior: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2013 Background: The use of unscheduled out of hours medical care is related to the social status of the patient. However, the social variance in the patient's preference for a hospital based versus a primary care based facility, and the impact of specific ...
Buylaert, Walter +5 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine +14 more
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Use of social adaptability index to explain self-care and diabetes outcomes
BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2017 Background To examine whether the social adaptability index (SAI) alone or components of the index provide a better explanatory model for self-care and diabetes outcomes. Methods Six hundred fifteen patients were recruited from two primary care settings.
Jennifer A. Campbell +3 more
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