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Point-of-Care Haematology Analyser Quality Assurance Programme: a rural nursing perspective [PDF]
Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021 BACKGROUND AND CONTEXTRural health services without an onsite laboratory lack timely access to haematology results. Set in New Zealand's far north, this paper provides a rural nursing perspective on how a health service remote from a laboratory ...
Geoffrey Herd +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash +4 more
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Assuring Quality Health Care in the Emergency Department [PDF]
Healthcare, 2015 The provision of quality healthcare is an international mandate. The provision of quality healthcare for mental health patients poses unique challenges. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in the emergency department. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe evidence-based initiatives for improving the quality of care of mental health patients ...
Letvak, Susan, Rhew, Denise
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Medical education and the pursuit of excellence : the quest for the Holy Grail? [PDF]
, 2008 Medical education in Europe is currently facing enormous challenges brought about by the number and the diversity of medical schools that are now within the fold.
Vassallo, Josanne
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Implementing a system to evaluate quality assurance in rehabilitation in Greece.
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Use of a widely accepted quality assurance tool is an essential procedure of effective and result-oriented quality management in the rehabilitation sector, and generally in health care and social services, but is still lacking in Greece ...
Dimitriadis, Vassilios +4 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright +13 more
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Quality Assurance in Breast Health Care and Requirement for Accreditation in Specialized Units
European Journal of Breast Health, 2014 Breast health is a subject of increasing importance. The statistical increase in the frequency of breast cancer and the consequent increase in death rate increase the importance of quality of services to be provided for breast health.
Sertaç Ata Güler +1 more
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Quality of Dementia Care in the Community: Identifying Key Quality Assurance Components [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Primary care-based memory clinics (PCMCs) have been established in several jurisdictions to improve the care for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Boscart, Veronique M. +8 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim +8 more
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Use of data from patient records for research : a model for best practice? [PDF]
, 2007 In the UK National Health Service (NHS), the registered list and the clinical records of patients are an invaluable resource for the quality assurance of clinical care in General Practice (e.g.
Dobbs, Frank, Mathers, Nigel
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