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Reducing No-Shows and Late Cancellations in Primary Care [PDF]

, 2018
No-shows and late cancellations are a challenge across medical practices, resulting in costly, fragmented care. Many patients do not understand the impact that not showing or cancelling an appointment less than 48 hours prior to a visit can have.
Hatch, Jessica
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Construct validity of measures of care home resident quality of life: cross-sectional analysis using data from a pilot minimum data set in England

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background To maintain good standards of care, evaluations of policy interventions or potential improvements to care are required. A number of quality of life (QoL) measures could be used but there is little evidence for England as to which measures ...
Stephen Allan, Stacey Rand, Ann-Marie Towers, Kaat De Corte, Freya Tracey, Elizabeth Crellin, Therese Lloyd, Rachael E. Carroll, Sinead Palmer, Lucy Webster, Adam Gordon, Nick Smith, Gizdem Akdur, Anne Killett, Karen Spilsbury, Claire Goodman   +15 more
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Increasing healthcare proxy documentation in an intensive care unit: a quality improvement initiative

BMJ Open Quality
In New York State, the Health Care Proxy Law allows patients to designate a person they trust to make medical decisions on their behalf should they lose the capacity to do so. In an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) setting, identification of a health care proxy
Lina Miyakawa, Steven Lim, Aphrodite Megaris, Jason Filopei, Patricia Dharapak   +4 more
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Development, psychometric evaluation, and factor analysis of an instrument measuring quality of life in autistic preschoolers

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
Introduction Early interventions for autistic children should target their quality of life (QoL) but require adapted measures. The association of a child's temperament and parental characteristics with the QoL of autistic children remains unknown ...
Jérôme Lichtlé, Emmanuel Devouche, Isaora Zefania Dialahy, Aude deGaulmyn, Anouck Amestoy, Romain Coutelle, Pascale Isnard, Jean‐Louis Monestès, Laurent Mottron, Emilie Cappe   +9 more
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Recommendation domains for pond aquaculture [PDF]

, 2008
This publication introduces the methods and results of a research project that has developed a set of decision-support tools to identify places and sets of conditions for which a particular target aquaculture technology is considered feasible and ...
Barth, H., Bose, M.L., Kam, S.P., Kriesemer, S.K., Pemsl, D.E., Teoh, S.J.   +5 more
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Development of a Flexible Produce Supply Chain Food Safety Risk Model: Comparing Tradeoffs Between Improved Process Controls and Additional Product Testing for Leafy Greens as a Test Case

Journal of Food Protection
The produce industry needs a tool to evaluate food safety interventions and prioritize investments and future research. A model was developed in R for a generic produce supply chain and made accessible via Shiny. Microbial contamination events, increases,
Gabriella Pinto, Gustavo A. Reyes, Cecil Barnett-Neefs, YeonJin Jung, Chenhao Qian, Martin Wiedmann, Matthew J. Stasiewicz   +6 more
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A systematic review of barriers and facilitators to and interventions for proxy decision-making by family carers of people with dementia

International Psychogeriatrics, 2015
Relatives of people with dementia report that proxy decision-making is difficult and distressing. We systematically reviewed the literature about barriers and facilitators to family carers of people with dementia making proxy decisions, and interventions used to facilitate their decision-making.We searched electronic databases and references of ...
Lord, Kathryn, Livingston, G., Cooper, C.   +2 more
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Revitalizing SEC Rule 14a-8’s Ordinary Business Exclusion: Preventing Shareholder Micromanagement by Proposal [PDF]

, 2016
Who decides what products a company should sell, what prices it should charge, and so on? Is it the board of directors, the top management team, or the shareholders?
Bainbridge, Stephen M.
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Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogenous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments

, 2019
We propose strategies to estimate and make inference on key features of heterogeneous effects in randomized experiments. These key features include best linear predictors of the effects using machine learning proxies, average effects sorted by impact ...
Chernozhukov, Victor, Demirer, Mert, Duflo, Esther, Fernández-Val, Iván   +3 more
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Setting standards for preventative services to reduce child health inequalities in Greater Manchester [PDF]

, 2007
Recent policy documents such as Every Child Matters and the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services have indicated a fundamental shift in ways of thinking about child health, emphasising the crucial role of ...
Baker, Deborah, McCluskey, Serena, NHS The Association of Greater Manchester Primary Care Trusts   +2 more
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