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Quality requirements for cross-border care in Europe: a qualitative study of patients', professionals' and healthcare financiers' views. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: In the past decade the issue of patient mobility has emerged on the European health policy agenda. Although the volume of patients crossing borders to obtain healthcare is low, it is increasing continuously and, due to its legal, financial ...
Vallejo, P, Klazinga, N., Groene, O., Poletti, P., Cucic, C., Cucic, C, Groene, O, Poletti, P, Klazinga, N, Suñol, R, Suñol, R., Groene, Oliver, Suñol Sala, Rosa, Vallejo, P.   +13 more
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Measuring in-hospital quality multidimensionally by integrating patients’, kin’s and healthcare professionals’ perspectives: development and validation of the FlaQuM-Quickscan

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Measuring quality is essential to drive improvement initiatives in hospitals. An instrument that measures healthcare quality multidimensionally and integrates patients’, kin’s and professionals’ perspectives is lacking. We aimed to develop and
Fien Claessens, Deborah Seys, Charlotte Van der Auwera, Anneke Jans, Eva Marie Castro, Laura Jacobs, Dirk De Ridder, Luk Bruyneel, Zita Leenaerts, Astrid Van Wilder, Jonas Brouwers, Peter Lachman, Kris Vanhaecht, The FlaQuM Research Group   +13 more
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Exploring what lies behind public preferences for avoiding health losses caused by lapses in healthcare safety and patient lifestyle choices [PDF]

, 2013
Background Although many studies have identified public preferences for prioritising health care interventions based on characteristics of recipient or care, very few of them have examined the reasons for the stated preferences.
Buxton, M., Amanda Baine, Lord, J., Martin Buxton, Singh, Jeshika, Buxton, M, Orr, S., Lord, J, Orr, S, Jeshika Singh, Singh, J., Singh, J, Louise Longworth, Joanne Lord, Shepley Orr, Longworth, L, Longworth, L., Baine, A, Baine, A.   +18 more
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Epidemiological Specificity оf COVID-19 Comorbidity

Здоровье мегаполиса, 2023
Numerous observations have proven the influence of COVID-19 on the formation of comorbid pathology; however, the patterns of this relationship and the epidemiological consequences have not been sufficiently studied. Combination of two or more diseases of
E. N. Kabaeva, M. A. Yakushin, A. V. Vorobeva, M. D. Vasiliev, O. Yu. Arseenkova   +4 more
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Healthcare disparities and models for change. [PDF]

, 2004
With Healthy People 2010 making the goal of eliminating health disparities a national priority, policymakers, researchers, medical centers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and advocacy organizations have been called on to move beyond the historic ...
Bengen-Seltzer, Barbara, Baquet, Claudia R, Carter-Pokras, Olivia   +2 more
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How to specify healthcare process improvements collaboratively using rapid, remote consensus-building: a framework and a case study of its application

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2021
Background Practical methods for facilitating process improvement are needed to support high quality, safe care. How best to specify (identify and define) process improvements – the changes that need to be made in a healthcare process – remains a key ...
Jan W. van der Scheer, Matthew Woodward, Akbar Ansari, Tim Draycott, Cathy Winter, Graham Martin, Karolina Kuberska, Natalie Richards, Ruth Kern, Mary Dixon-Woods, Thiscovery Authorship Group, Obstetric Emergency Consensus Authorship Group   +11 more
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Advance directives among cognitively impaired persons who had an amyloid PET scan and their care partners: a mixed-methods study

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Little research exists on the role of β-amyloid PET scans as part of Alzheimer’s diagnostic tests and documentation of end-of-life preferences for persons with cognitive impairment.
Emmanuelle Bélanger, Elyse Couch, Michaela S. Carroll, Nicole DePasquale, Emily A. Gadbois, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Eric Jutkowitz, Courtney H. Van Houtven, Brenda L. Plassman, Terrie T. Wetle   +9 more
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Leveraging Informatics and Technology to Support Public Health Response: Framework and Illustrations using COVID-19 [PDF]

, 2021
Objective: To develop a conceptual model and novel, comprehensive framework that encompass the myriad ways informatics and technology can support public health response to a pandemic.
Dixon, Brian E., Kassler, William, Snowdon, Jane L., Rhee, Kyu, Karunakaram, Hema   +4 more
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Europeanisation of health systems : a qualitative study of domestic actors in a small state [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Health systems are not considered to be significantly influenced by European Union (EU) policies given the subsidiarity principle. Yet, recent developments including the patients’ rights and cross-border directive (2011/24 EU), as well as ...
Aluttis, Christoph, Azzopardi-Muscat, Natasha, Kristine Sorensen, Azzopardi Muscat, Natasha, Brand, Helmut, Pace, Roderick, Christoph Aluttis, Helmut Brand, Roderick Pace, Brand, Helmut; id_orcid, Sorensen, Kristine, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat   +11 more
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Organizational health and independent sector healthcare organizations [PDF]

, 2020
With an increasing proportion of UK healthcare delivered by independent sector providers (ISPs) it is important that performance data is reviewed with a similar rigour as within the public sector.
Williams, Stephen P, Purkayastha, Sanjay, Chaturvedi, Sankalp, Darzi, Ara   +3 more
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