Roles and Functions of Community Health Workers in Primary Care
Annals of Family Medicine, 2018 Community health workers have potential to enhance primary care access and quality, but remain underutilized. To provide guidance on their integration, we characterized roles and functions of community health workers in primary care through a literature ...
A. Hartzler +3 more
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Primary Care Physician Shortage: Increased Demand and Insufficient Supply [PDF]
, 2014 The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is attempting to reform the organization, delivery and reimbursement rates associated with the health care system.
Gorham, Sara
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Accounting for total variation and robustness in profiling health care providers [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Monitoring outcomes of health care providers, such as patient deaths, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions, helps in assessing the quality of health care. We consider a large database on patients being treated at dialysis facilities in the United States, and the problem of identifying facilities with outcomes that are better than or worse than ...
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Evaluation of the primary/secondary care interface in relation to a primary care rheumatology service [PDF]
, 2007 Objective The rheumatology department at The Royal Oldham Hospital developed a primary care service aimed at bridging the gap between primary and secondary care for patients with potential rheumatological conditions, and this was given the name ...
Ball, E, Critchley, S
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Patient and practitioner views of a new rheumatology (Tier 2) primary care service [PDF]
, 2007 The rheumatology Tier 2 service in Oldham was implemented to see patients in a primary care setting for their initial assessment. They were treated and discharged within the service, or referred on to secondary care in order to limit inappropriate ...
Ball, E, Critchley, S
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HAPI-FHIR Server Implementation to Enhancing Interoperability among Primary Care Health Information Systems in Sri Lanka: Review of the Technical Use Case [PDF]
European Modern Studies Journal 2024This review underscores the vital role of interoperability in digital health, advocating for a standardized framework. It focuses on implementing a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) server, addressing technical, semantic, and process challenges.
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Review on Telemonitoring of Maternal Health care Targeting Medical Cyber-Physical Systems [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 We aim to review available literature related to the telemonitoring of maternal health care for a comprehensive understanding of the roles of Medical Cyber-Physical-Systems (MCPS) as cutting edge technology in maternal risk factor management, and for understanding the possible research gap in the domain.
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PROJECTING THE IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE ON THE DEMAND FOR AND DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE IN IRELAND. RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 13 OCTOBER 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 Primary care is often the first point of contact with the health care system for people requiring care. Primary care is often thought synonymous with general practitioners, but actually encompasses a large range of different professionals and services ...
Aoife, Brick +10 more
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Antibiotic Use in Primary Care in Northern Ireland [PDF]
Research is scarce regarding antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) for specific localities in Northern Ireland (NI). Additionally, the effects of COVID-19 on antimicrobial prescribing patterns and AMR are unknown.
Coleman, Heather, Hamilton, Naomi
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Optimal Contract Design for End-of-Life Care Payments [PDF]
arXivA large fraction of total healthcare expenditure occurs due to end-of-life (EOL) care, which means it is important to study the problem of more carefully incentivizing necessary versus unnecessary EOL care because this has the potential to reduce overall healthcare spending.
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