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Achieving successful community engagement: a rapid realist review

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Community engagement is increasingly seen as crucial to achieving high quality, efficient and collaborative care. However, organisations are still searching for the best and most effective ways to engage citizens in the shaping of health and ...
E. De Weger, N. Van Vooren, K. G. Luijkx, C. A. Baan, H. W. Drewes   +4 more
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Manual therapy compared with physical therapy in patients with non-specific neck pain: a randomized controlled trial

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2017
Background Manual therapy according to the School of Manual Therapy Utrecht (MTU) is a specific type of passive manual joint mobilization. MTU has not yet been systematically compared to other manual therapies and physical therapy.
Ruud Groeneweg, Luite van Assen, Hans Kropman, Huco Leopold, Jan Mulder, Bouwien C. M. Smits-Engelsman, Raymond W J. G. Ostelo, Rob A. B. Oostendorp, Maurits W. van Tulder   +8 more
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Low pre-transplant levels of mannose-binding lectin are associated with viral infections and mortality after haematopoietic allogeneic stem cell transplantation

BMC Immunology, 2019
Background Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is a key component of innate immunity. Low serum MBL levels, related to promoter polymorphism and structural variants, have been associated with an increased risk of infection.
M. Puente, C. Fariñas-Alvarez, A. Moreto, P. Sánchez-Velasco, J. G. Ocejo-Vinyals, M. C. Fariñas, on behalf of SCT team   +6 more
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UK Biobank data demonstrate long-term exposure to floods is a risk factor for incident dementia

Communications Medicine
Background Flooding has emerged as the most prevalent natural disaster, impacting billions of individuals worldwide. However, the long-term effects of flooding exposure on dementia remain unclear.
Yao Wu, Rongbin Xu, Danijela Gasevic, Zhengyu Yang, Pei Yu, Bo Wen, Yanming Liu, Guowei Zhou, Yan Zhang, Jiangning Song, Hong Liu, Shanshan Li, Yuming Guo   +12 more
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Identification of emergencies in the telephone queue and routing to a fast track (FAST): study protocol for a prospective, two-armed cohort study

BMC Health Services Research
Background In Germany, the telephone patient service 116,117 for callers with non-life-threatening health issues is available 24/7. Based on structured initial assessment, urgency and placement of suitable medical care offer have been offered since 2020.
Sarah Eichler, Tobias Herrmann, Uta Weidlich-Wichmann, Kodjo Vissiennon, Thorsten Pollmann, Lisa Weller, Christopher Pommerenke, Lars Kroll, Nicolas Alix, Tanja Dietsch, Dominik von Stillfried, Sebastian Carnarius   +11 more
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Optimizing the stake holder’s perspective on enhancing the service quality in health care [PDF]

For the success of health care organizations, accurate measurement of health care service quality is as important as understanding the nature of the service delivery system.
G, Thiagarajan, Nakkeeran, Senthil kumar
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All Americans at Risk of Receiving Poor Quality Health Care [PDF]

, 2006
Summarizes a study of the health care Americans receive compared to the health care they should receive and of the links between the quality of care received and patient characteristics, including age, gender, race/ethnicity, income, and insurance ...
Melanie Napier, Steven Asch
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Does quality influence choice of general practitioner? An analysis of matched doctor-patient panel data [PDF]

The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to ...
Biørn, Erik, Godager, Geir
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Impact of Information-Handling Systems on Quality and Access to Health Care [PDF]

, 1968
Richard L. Garwin
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Improving the quality of health care when health workers are in short supply [PDF]

A number of low- and middle-income countries have a severe shortage of health workers. This paper studies how health workers’ choices of labour supply and work effort impact on the quality of health services when health workers are in short supply.
Mæstad, Ottar, Torsvik, Gaute
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