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Advance care planning by proxy for residential aged care facility residents: results of a pilot interventional study [PDF]

Innovation in Aging
Abstract Background and Objectives Advance care planning (ACP) allows people with decision-making capacity (DMC) to stipulate their wishes for medical treatment if they lose this capacity. However, many lose DMC before expressing their treatment wishes.
Laura Jones, Eve Rubli Truchard, Anca-Cristina Sterie, Yaëlle Rhyner, Elisabeth Iorio, Ralf J Jox   +5 more
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Reducing unnecessary coagulation screening in ambulatory patients in the emergency departments of a multi-site trust: a quality improvement project [PDF]

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
Background Many Emergency Departments (EDs) front-load investigations, which can cause unnecessary over-investigation in ambulatory patients and has environmental and financial impacts.
Robert Conway, Niki Solesbury
doaj   +2 more sources

Ethical challenges in proxy online health information seeking by nursing interns for patients: a qualitative interview study [PDF]

BMC Medical Ethics
Background Certain populations face challenges in accessing online health information, leading to the emergence of Proxy Online Health Information Seeking (Proxy OHIS).
Xiaoyun Zhou, Hui Xue, Yanyan Men, Yanchun Li, Xuebing Jing   +4 more
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Improving Health Seeking Behaviour for Non-Communicable Diseases in Sri Lanka through Health Promotion Interventions [PDF]

Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management
Objective: We piloted evidence-based health promotion interventions to increase health seeking behaviour (HSB), as measured primarily by utilization of Healthy Lifestyle Centers (HLC).
Aluth Durage Upali Karunarathna, Dilantha Dharmagunawardene, Mediwaka Wallawwe Malkanthi Kumari Mediwaka, , Amila Chandrasiri, Sudath Samaraweera, Reece Hinchcliff   +5 more
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Health service packages included in the analysis, interventions linked to each package and example of proxy indicators used. [PDF]

, 2022
Health service packages included in the analysis, interventions linked to each package and example of proxy indicators used.
Raza Mahmood Zaidi (12065851), Abdullahi Abdulle Ali (12065872), Qudsia Uzma (12065863), Abdulazim Ali Awadalla (12065875), Mohammad Samim Soroush (8922746), Denise Buchner (6080618), Nilmini Hemachandra (12065824), Nouzha Dghoughi (12065845), Hachri Hafid (12065848), Theresa Diaz (5664742), Eva Weissman (226880), Abdulkadir Wehliye Afrah (12065869), Wahaj Zulfiqar (12065854), Zaid Muayad Yassen (12065836), Esmehan Babeker Elkheir (12065881), Khalid Siddeeg (12065827), Paata Chikvaidze (12065833), Muntasir Mohammed Osman EL Hassan (12065878), Ahmed Javed Rahmanzai (12065830), Mohamed Berraho (12065842), Sayema Awes (12065857), Atiya Aabroo (12065860), Hanan Hasan (12065839), Mohamed Abubakar Hagi Mohamed Fiidow (12065866)   +23 more
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Fair Visual Recognition via Intervention with Proxy Features

CoRR, 2022
Deep learning models often learn to make predictions that rely on sensitive social attributes like gender and race, which poses significant fairness risks, especially in societal applications, e.g., hiring, banking, and criminal justice. Existing work tackles this issue by minimizing information about social attributes in models for debiasing. However,
Yi Zhang 0101, Jitao Sang 0001, Junyang Wang 0001   +2 more
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Outcome of psychiatric intervention in factitious illness by proxy (Munchausen's syndrome by proxy) [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1999
To determine the outcome for children after psychiatric intervention in cases of factitious illness by proxy.All 17 children from 16 families, selected for admission to the Park Hospital Oxford family unit 1992-96 were followed up after a mean of 27 months.
B, Berg, D P, Jones
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Development of a measure to assess the quality of proxy decisions about research participation on behalf of adults lacking capacity to consent: the Combined Scale for Proxy Informed Consent Decisions (CONCORD scale)

Trials, 2022
Background Recruitment of adults lacking the capacity to consent to trials requires the involvement of an alternative ‘proxy’ decision-maker, usually a family member.
Victoria Shepherd, Kerenza Hood, Katie Gillies, Fiona Wood   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the Effectiveness of Web-Based Interventions to Enhance Resilience in Health Care Professionals: Systematic Review

JMIR Medical Education, 2022
BackgroundInternationally, the impact of continued exposure to workplace environmental and psychological stressors on health care professionals’ mental health is associated with increased depression, substance misuse, sleep ...
Catherine Henshall, Edoardo Ostinelli, Jade Harvey, Zoe Davey, Bemigho Aghanenu, Andrea Cipriani, Mary-Jane Attenburrow   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a core outcome set for the evaluation of interventions to enhance trial participation decisions on behalf of adults who lack capacity to consent: a mixed methods study (COnSiDER Study)

Trials, 2021
Background Trials involving adults who lack capacity to provide consent rely on proxy or surrogate decision-makers, usually a family member, to make decisions about participation. Interventions to enhance proxy decisions about trial participation are now
V. Shepherd, F. Wood, M. Robling, E. Randell, K. Hood   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source