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Minimal important differences for fatigue patient reported outcome measures—a systematic review

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016
Background Fatigue is the most frequent symptom reported by patients with chronic illnesses. As a subjective experience, fatigue is commonly assessed with patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
Åsa Nordin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Person-centred care literature review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The review was primarily designed to help inform future work of the ihub’s Person-centred Design and Improvement Team which help people working in health and social care in Scotland to take a person-centred approach to improving the services they deliver.
Miller, Emma
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Testing cost containment of future healthcare with maintained or improved quality—The COSTCARES project

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, 2021
Background Increasing healthcare costs need to be contained in order to maintain equality of access to care for all EU citizens. A cross‐disciplinary consortium of experts was supported by the EU FP7 research programme, to produce a roadmap on cost ...
Karl Swedberg   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visualizing the Invisible—The Needs and Wishes of Childhood Cancer Survivors for Digitally Mediated Emotional Peer Support

open access: yesCurrent Oncology, 2022
This study aims to identify the needs and wishes of childhood cancer long-term survivors for digitally mediated emotional peer support. Survivors of childhood cancer (six men, seven women) aged 19–33, participated in semi-structured interviews (November ...
Stefan Nilsson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the views of being a proxy from the perspective of unpaid carers and paid carers: developing a proxy version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT)

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Outcomes-based policy and administration of public services present a compelling argument for the value of outcomes data. However, there are a number of challenges inherent in collecting these data from people who are unable to complete a ...
James Caiels   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a proxy version of the Adult social care outcome toolkit (ASCOT)

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
Background Social care-related quality of life is a key outcome indicator used in the evaluation of social care interventions and policy. It is not, however, always possible to collect quality of life data by self-report even with adaptations for people ...
Stacey Rand   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bodywork in dementia care: recognising the commonalities of selfhood to facilitate respectful care in institutional settings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper draws on two data sources (Kelly's ethnographic study and a British Broadcasting Corporation television programme) to explore the practice of bodywork in the care of frail people with dementia in institutional settings.
Kelly, Fiona, FIONA KELLY
core   +1 more source

Health-economic evaluations of person-centred care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Person-centred care aims at making the individual partake in the healthcare decisionmaking and at supporting individual health management. This stands in contrast to usual care, which typically has more focus on the particular disease at hand, rather ...
Pirhonen, Laura
core   +1 more source

An introduction to the person-centred approach as an attitude for participatory design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper is one of three talks which reflect on the use of participatory design methods, especially in the context of design for mental health and wellbeing.
Richard Kettley   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Validity and test-retest reliability of the self-completion adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) with adults with long-term physical, sensory and mental health conditions in England

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
Background The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) is a multi-attribute utility index designed for the evaluation of long-term social care services. The measure comprises eight attributes that capture aspects of social care-related quality of
Stacey Rand   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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