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Analysis of Home Care Supports Funded by the HSE 2008–2016 [PDF]

, 2016
This paper seeks to summarise the situation of publicly funded home care over the period 2008- 2016. Of particular interest is the overall change to the level of resources being directed to home care in the 2016 HSE Service Plan, in particular the actual
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Vertical integration of general practices with acute hospitals in England: rapid impact evaluation

Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 2023
Background Vertical integration means merging organisations that operate at different stages along the patient pathway. We focus on acute hospitals running primary care medical practices.
Sidhu Manbinder, Saunders Catherine L, Davies Charlotte, McKenna Gemma, Wu Frances, Litchfield Ian, Olumogba Fifi, Sussex Jon   +7 more
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Defining Carers [PDF]

, 2015
The purpose of this paper is less to answer questions than to ask them, and less to define ‘carers’ than to understand who they are. In particular, its purpose is to ask why the label ‘family carer’ may be rejected by some of them, or by particular ...
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Urinary Tract Infections in Antenatal and Postnatal Women: Pathogen Profiles, Antibiotic Sensitivity Patterns, and Labor Outcomes at a Secondary Care Hospital in South India – A 3-year Retrospective Observational Study

Current Medical Issues
Background: Urinary tract infection is a common problem in antenatal women, associated with serious morbidity in mother and baby. This study aims to describe the uropathogen profile noted in pregnant women visiting a secondary hospital in Southern India ...
Andrew Moses, Anne George Cherian, Tobey Ann Marcus, Rani Diana Sahni, Jasmin Helan Prasad   +4 more
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The research activities of Ontario’s large community acute care hospitals: a scoping review

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Ontario’s large community hospitals (LCHs) provide care to 65% of the province’s hospitalized patients, yet we know very little about their research activities.
Giulio DiDiodato, John Alexander DiDiodato, Aidan Samuel McKee   +2 more
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Collaborative challenges during transition of patients with severe depression from secondary mental health services to primary care and opportunities for improvement - a qualitative study

Frontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionPatients with severe depression are treated across primary and secondary healthcare and receive employment support from municipal caseworkers (CWs). However, collaboration during the transition from outpatient secondary mental health services
Anne Sofie Aggestrup, Anne Sofie Aggestrup, Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard, Klaus Martiny, Klaus Martiny, Annette Sofie Davidsen   +5 more
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Characterising generalism in clinical practice: a systematic mixed studies review protocol

BJGP Open, 2021
Background: Generalist physician care is associated with improved patient outcomes. Despite initiatives to promote generalism in educational settings, recruitment to generalist disciplines remains less than required to serve societal needs.
Martina Kelly, Sarah Cheung, Mariam Keshavjee, Anna Stevenson, Josephine Elliott, Surinder Singh, Madeleine Foster, Sophie Park   +7 more
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Reducing the Delay in the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder: A Qualitative Study

Health Expectations
Introduction Patients living with bipolar disorder in the UK face, on average, a delay of 9.5 years from initial presentation of symptoms to confirmation of diagnosis.
Hoppe I, S. Watson, N. Ahuja, L. Azim, A. Cipriani, E. Clark, J. Evans, T. Gergel, J. Gibson, J. Hall, T. Kabir, A. Mathias, N. Nixon, Prasad V, L. Wall, C. Chew‐Graham   +15 more
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Protocol: Value Stream Maping in Healthcare. A systematic literature review

WPOM : Working Papers on Operations Management, 2019
Until 2016, very few works had investigated the use of the VSM. With this research, we will discover if the situation has changed in the last 3 years. In the lean manufacturing context, different techniques that help the continuous improvement process ...
Juan A. Marin-Garcia, Pilar I. Vidal-Carreras, Julio J. Garcia Sabater, Javier Escribano-Martinez   +3 more
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Systematic voiding programme in adults with urinary incontinence following acute stroke: the ICONS-II RCT

Health Technology Assessment, 2022
Background: Urinary incontinence affects around half of stroke survivors in the acute phase, and it often presents as a new problem after stroke or, if pre-existing, worsens significantly, adding to the disability and helplessness caused by neurological ...
Caroline Watkins, Svetlana Tishkovskaya, Chris Brown, Chris Sutton, Yvonne Sylvestre Garcia, Denise Forshaw, Gordon Prescott, Lois Thomas, Christine Roffe, Joanne Booth, Kina Bennett, Brenda Roe, Bruce Hollingsworth, Ceu Mateus, David Britt, Cliff Panton   +15 more
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