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The Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care: A Sustainable Model for Translational Research Improving Quality of Life, Quality of Care and Quality of Work

open access: yesThe Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 2019
There is a strong need in long-term care for scientific research, so older people and their families, health care professionals, policy makers, and educators can benefit from new advancements and best available evidence in every day care practice.
H. Verbeek   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community Care of North Carolina: Putting Health Reform Ideas Into Practice in Medicaid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Summarizes assessments of how an enhanced medical home model of care that involves local nonprofit community networks and emphasizes care coordination, disease and care management, and quality improvement has affected cost savings and quality of ...
Samantha Artiga
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Quality of life and building design in residential and nursing homes for older people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Older people living in residential and nursing care homes spend a large proportion of their time within the boundaries of the home, and may depend on the environment to compensate for their physical or cognitive frailties.
Barnes, S.   +5 more
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Quality of care assessment for people with multimorbidity

open access: yesJournal of Internal Medicine, 2019
Multimorbidity, the simultaneous presence of multiple health conditions in an individual, is an increasingly common phenomenon globally. The systematic assessment of the quality of care delivered to people with multimorbidity will be key to informing the
J. Valderas   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring the views of being a proxy from the perspective of unpaid carers and paid carers: developing a proxy version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT)

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Outcomes-based policy and administration of public services present a compelling argument for the value of outcomes data. However, there are a number of challenges inherent in collecting these data from people who are unable to complete a ...
James Caiels   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Care Management of Patients With Complex Health Care Needs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Explores how patients' complexity of healthcare needs, vulnerability, and age affect the cost and quality of their health care. Examines the potential for care management to improve quality of care and reduce costs, elements of success, and ...
Rachel Berry-Millett, Thomas Bodenheimer
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Understanding and measuring quality of care: dealing with complexity

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017
Existing definitions and measurement approaches of quality of health care often fail to address the complexities involved in understanding quality of care.
J. Hanefeld   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A systematic comparison of different composite measures (DAS 28, CDAI, SDAI, and Boolean approach) for determining treatment effects on low disease activity and remission in rheumatoid arthritis

open access: yesBMC Rheumatology, 2022
Background Some composite measures for determining the treatment effects of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on remission and low disease activity (LDA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may produce misleading results if they include an acute phase ...
Kirsten Janke   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving support for older people looking after someone with advanced cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The briefing paper is about the findings and recommendations from a research project conducted at the University of Nottingham, with funding awarded by Macmillan Cancer Support.
Bird, Lydia   +2 more
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Diabetes care provision in UK primary care practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Although most people with Type 2 diabetes receive their diabetes care in primary care, only a limited amount is known about the quality of diabetes care in this setting.
Elaine Stamp   +11 more
core   +2 more sources

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