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Perceived Health Service, Quality of Care, and Multidrug Resistent Tuberculosis: A Case-Control Study in Central Java, Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries, including Indonesia. Drug resistance, in combination with other factors, results in even more increased morbidity and mortality due to tuberculosis.
Boonyaleepun, S. (Suwanna)   +3 more
core   +1 more source

What next for Shared Lives? Family-based support as a potential option for older people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
With an ageing population and limited resources the challenge for policy makers and practitioners is how best to provide for the care and support needs of older people.
Bell J   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Patient and nurse preferences for implementation of bedside handover: Do they agree? Findings from a discrete choice experiment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Objective: To describe and compare patients' and nurses' preferences for the implementation of bedside handover. Design: Discrete choice experiment describing handover choices using six characteristics: whether the patient is invited to participate ...
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Quality of child health care in the family health strategy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
OBJECTIVE: to verify the quality of child health care in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in a state capital of Northeastern Brazil. METHODS: a descriptive study using a quantitative approach was carried out in 2010 with 66 primary care (PC) teams ...
Campos Carlos Eduardo Aguilera   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Does hospital information technology infrastructure promote the implementation of clinical practice guidelines? A multicentre observational study of Japanese hospitals

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2019
ObjectivesIt remains unclear whether insufficient information technology (IT) infrastructure in hospitals hinders implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and affects healthcare quality.
Noriko Sasaki   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Community Quality of Health Care [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Services Research, 2015
ObjectiveTo determine the agreement of measures of care in different settings—hospitals, nursing homes (NHs), and home health agencies (HHAs)—and identify communities with high‐quality care in all settings.Data Sources/Study SettingPublicly available quality measures for hospitals, NHs, and HHAs, linked to hospital service areas (HSAs).Study DesignWe ...
Jeph, Herrin   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Case-crossover study to examine the change in postpartum risk of pulmonary embolism over time

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Although the current guidelines recommend anticoagulation up until 6 weeks after delivery in women at high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), the risk of VTE may extend beyond 6 weeks.
Grégoire Ficheur   +7 more
doaj   +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

The influence of depressive symptoms on the effectiveness of a short-term group form of Schema Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for personality disorders: a naturalistic study

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background This naturalistic study examined the outcomes of Short-Term Schema Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in groups with personality disorders, and with high and low severity of depressive symptoms.
David Koppers   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acute stroke awareness of family physicians: translation of policy to practice

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2020
Background Translating clinical guidelines into routine clinical practice is mandatory to achieve population level improvement of health. Emergence of specific therapy for acute stroke yielded the ‘time is brain’ concept introducing the need for ...
Szilvia Harsanyi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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