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Background: Older adults (>65 years) with palliative care needs are increasingly accessing the emergency department. Some interventions have been developed to improve the care provided, but the majority of research has focused on provider perspectives ...
Rebecca Wright +3 more
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Effects of Implementing a Health Team Communication Redesign on Hospital Readmissions Within 30 Days [PDF]
Background and Rationale Poor communication between health team members can interfere with timely, coordinated preparation for hospital discharge. Research on daily bedside interprofessional health team rounds and nursing bedside shift handoff reports ...
Beiler, Joseph +3 more
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A Review of Best Practices for Monitoring and Improving Inpatient Pediatric Patient Experiences. [PDF]
ContextAchieving high-quality patient-centered care requires assessing patient and family experiences to identify opportunities for improvement. With the Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey, hospitals can assess ...
Hays, Ron D +3 more
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Measuring patient-perceived quality of care in US hospitals using Twitter [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Patients routinely use Twitter to share feedback about their experience receiving healthcare. Identifying and analysing the content of posts sent to hospitals may provide a novel real-time measure of quality, supplementing traditional, survey-
Bourgeois, FT +10 more
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Cancer patients’ experiences of living with venous thromboembolism: A systematic review and qualitative thematic synthesis [PDF]
Background: Cancer-Associated thrombosis is common. Recommended treatment is daily injected low-molecular-weight heparin for 6months. Most studies focus on prophylaxis and treatment; few have explored patients’ experience.
Benelhaj, Naima B. +5 more
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Patient choice in the NHS: How critical are facilities services in influencing patient choice? [PDF]
Purpose – From December 2005, patients in the UK needing an operation will be offered a choice of four or five. These could be NHS trusts, foundation trusts, treatment centres, private hospitals or practitioners with a special interest operating within ...
May, D., Miller, L.
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ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
wiley +1 more source
Patient Experience Shows Little Relationship with Hospital Quality Management Strategies. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Patient-reported experience measures are increasingly being used to routinely monitor the quality of care. With the increasing attention on such measures, hospital managers seek ways to systematically improve patient experience across ...
Arah, Onyebuchi A +11 more
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ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie +4 more
wiley +1 more source
The gaps between healthcare service and building design : a state of the art review [PDF]
Healthcare buildings are designed to achieve diverse objectives, ranging from providing appropriate environments where care can be delivered to communities to increasing operational efficiency and improving patient flows and the patient experience ...
Codinhoto, R +4 more
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