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Quality of Palliative and End-Of-Life Care in Hong Kong: Perspectives of Healthcare Providers
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Background: In response to population aging, there is a need for health systems to focus on care for chronic disease, specifically palliative care, while focusing on people-centered care.
E. Wong +8 more
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The Benefits of Edge Computing in Healthcare, Smart Cities, and IoT [PDF]
Journal of Computer Sciences and Applications. 2021, 9(1), 23-34, 2021 Recent advancements in technology now allow for the generation of massive quantities of data. There is a growing need to transmit this data faster and more securely such that it cannot be accessed by malicious individuals. Edge computing has emerged in previous research as a method capable of improving data transmission times and security before the ...
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BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background Telephone triage is a core but vulnerable part of the care process at out-of-hours general practitioner (GP) cooperatives. In the Netherlands, different instruments have been used for assessing the quality of telephone triage.
Marleen Smits +3 more
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Perspectives on Aging and Quality of Life
Healthcare, 2023 The aging of the world’s population and the health problems accompanying it are becoming increasingly severe. Healthcare policies in developed countries focus on how to prevent and treat diseases associated with aging and how to maintain quality of life.
S. Noto
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Professional Quality of Life of Healthcare Workers in Hospital Emergency Departments
Behavioral Sciences, 2022 In previous publications, we have reported that professionals in emergency departments undergo high levels of stress according to the amounts of salivary biomarkers (α-amylase and cortisol). The stress seems to be counteracted by increased levels of dehydroepiandrosterone.
Daniel Pérez-Valdecantos +7 more
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Pressure ulcers: understanding the challenges of promoting quality [PDF]
, 2010 Pressure ulcers affect quality of life and general wellbeing, and create significant difficulties for patients, their carers and families. Pressure ulcers are associated with morbidity and mortality, and prove costly for healthcare providers.
Ousey, Karen
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Quality of Care and Quality of Life: Patient/Healthcare Perspectives
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 2009 Background: Patients with CF need attention, financial resources and energy for their daily, time consuming therapies to maintain an optimal health status. Our goal as healthcare providers (HP) is to offer the best care. This results in a heavy burden for the patients which impairs the quality of life (QoL) and may lead to poor adherence.
E. Kerem, S. Armoni, R.Y. Rony
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Case-studies of displacement effects in Dutch hospital care
BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Under a constrained health care budget, cost-increasing technologies may displace funds from existing health services. However, it is unknown what services are displaced and how such displacement takes place in practice.
Joost Johan Godert Wammes +9 more
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Understanding Barriers and Design Opportunities to Improve Healthcare and QOL for Older Adults through Voice Assistants [PDF]
, 2021 Voice based Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) promise to improve healthcare management and Quality of Life (QOL) by introducing the paradigm of hands free and eye free interactions. However, there has been little understanding regarding the challenges for designing such systems for older adults, especially when it comes to healthcare related tasks.
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Brain and Behavior, 2020 The COVID‐19 pandemic has placed healthcare professionals (HCP) in stressful circumstances with increased patient loads and a high risk of exposure. We sought to assess the mental health and quality of life (QoL) of Indian HCPs, the fourth highest‐burden
N. Suryavanshi +7 more
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