Improving Advance Directive Use Through Provider Education at Newtown Primary Care [PDF]
, 2018 Nationally, there seems to be a discrepancy between a patient\u27s desire to talk about end-of-life care and their act of doing so. An advance directive is a legal document that enables an individual facilitate an end-of-life care discussion with someone.
Wong, Timothy
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Palliative care and Parkinson's disease : meeting summary and recommendations for clinical research [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction: Palliative care is an approach to caring for patients and families affected by serious illnesses that focuses on the relief of suffering through the management of medical symptoms, psychosocial issues, advance care planning and spiritual ...
Bekelman, David +17 more
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How Has ‘What Matters to You’ Been Used for Patient Care? A Scoping Review
Health ExpectationsIntroduction Asking patients ‘What matters to you?’ (WMTY) was first introduced in 2012 as an approach to person‐centred care and has since been integrated into healthcare frameworks internationally.
Carrie Janerka +3 more
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Advance care planning for paediatric patients [PDF]
Paediatrics & Child Health, 2008 Medical and technological advances have increased survival rates and enhanced the quality of life for infants, children and youths with chronic life-threatening conditions. Advance care planning includes the process of discussing life-sustaining treatments and establishing long-term care goals.
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The Business Case for Community Paramedicine: Lessons from Commonwealth Care Alliance's Pilot Program [PDF]
, 2016 Mobile integrated health care and community paramedicine (MIH-CP) programs expand the role of traditional emergency medical services personnel to address non-emergency needs and bring outpatient primary and urgent care into patients' homes.
Dominick Esposito +6 more
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A collaborative platform for management of chronic diseases via guideline-driven individualized care plans [PDF]
, 2019 Older age is associated with an increased accumulation of multiple chronic conditions. The clinical management of patients suffering from multiple chronic conditions is very complex, disconnected and time-consuming with the traditional care settings ...
Arvanitis, Theodoros N. +22 more
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Social networks : the future for health care delivery [PDF]
, 2012 With the rapid growth of online social networking for health, health care systems are experiencing an inescapable increase in complexity. This is not necessarily a drawback; self-organising, adaptive networks could become central to future health care ...
Ball, Robin +7 more
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Patient perspectives on quality family planning services in underserved areas
Patient Experience Journal, 2017 Ongoing challenges impede efforts to improve the quality of family planning services in underserved communities, which by definition lack sufficient numbers of physicians and other health professionals.
Debora Goldberg +8 more
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A comparative analysis of manual glenoid version measurement using two- and three-dimensional computed tomography imaging techniques [PDF]
Clinics in Shoulder and ElbowBackground Accurate measurement of glenoid version is essential for optimal implant positioning in shoulder arthroplasty. This study compared the accuracy and reliability of unformatted two-dimensional computed tomography (2D-CT), formatted 2D-CT, and ...
Maxwell S Renna, Ashley I. Simpson
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A multilevel integrative approach to hospital case mix and capacity planning. [PDF]
Hospital case mix and capacity planning involves the decision making both on patient volumes that can be taken care of at a hospital and on resource requirements and capacity management.
Demeulemeester, Erik, Ma, Guoxuan
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