Is individual educational level related to end-of-life care use? : results from a nationwide retrospective cohort study in Belgium [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Educational level has repeatedly been identified as an important determinant of access to health care, but little is known about its influence on end-of-life care use.
Bilsen, Johan +7 more
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Unique health care utilization patterns in a homeless population in Ghent [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Existing studies concerning the health care use of homeless people describe higher utilisation rates for hospital-based care and emergency care, and lower rates for primary care by homeless people compared to the general population.
Art, Bruno +5 more
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Challenges of managing people with multimorbidity in today’s healthcare systems [PDF]
, 2015 Multimorbidity is a growing issue and poses a major challenge to health care systems around the world. Multimorbidity is related to ageing but many studies have now shown that it is also socially patterned, being more common and occurring at an earlier ...
Mercer, Stewart, Moffat, Keith
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Telephone consultations in secondary care [PDF]
Respiratory Medicine, 2007 To determine the role of telephone consultations in respiratory medicine.An observational study.Respiratory outpatients department in an inner London teaching hospital.Five-hundred sequential patients attending three different outpatient respiratory clinics.Substitution of the next intended consultation with a telephone consultation.Proportion of ...
Roberts, Nicola J., Partridge, Martyn R.
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The specter of cancer: Exploring secondary trauma for health professionals providing cancer support and counseling [PDF]
, 2013 Health professionals are vulnerable to occupational stress and tend to report high levels of secondary trauma and burnout; this is especially so for those working in “high-death” contexts such as cancer support and palliative care.
Breen, Lauren +3 more
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Challenges in measuring interprofessional–interorganisational collaboration with a questionnaire
BJGP Open, 2018 Background: Collaboration between medical professionals from separate organisations is necessary to deliver good patient care. This care is influenced by professionals’ perceptions about their collaboration.
Loes J Meijer +4 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2020 Introduction: Several epidemiological studies in Neurotology have been previously carried out in the general population. This approach is useful for learning about the most common disorders in clinical population, but it may fail when one is trying to ...
Emilio Domínguez-Durán +4 more
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Managing extramural neonates: Experience from a zonal hospital
Journal of Marine Medical Society, 2019 Introduction: There are many challenges in the care of extramural neonates (born outside the hospital), especially in resource-limited secondary care (zonal) hospitals of the Armed Forces.
Vivek Bhat, Ranjeet Wishram Thergaonkar
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Variation in hospital cost trajectories at the end of life by age, multimorbidity and cancer type
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2023 Background Approximately thirty thousand people in Scotland are diagnosed with cancer annually, of whom a third live less than one year. The timing, nature and value of hospital-based healthcare for patients with advanced cancer are not well understood.
Katharina Diernberger +9 more
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Development of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for use in the ambulance service [PDF]
, 2015 Background NHS health policy emphasises the crucial role of patient experience as a core component of high quality care, alongside effectiveness and safety. Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) measure patients’ experiences with their healthcare.
Siriwardena, A. Niroshan +2 more
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