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Measuring quality in social care services: theory and practice [PDF]

, 2010
Measuring and assessing service quality in the social care sector presents distinct challenges. The 'experience' good properties of social care, for instance, and the large influence played by subjective judgements about the quality of personal ...
Fernández, José-Luis, Malley, Juliette
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From “Obstetrical Violence” Complaints to “Respectful Maternity Care”: The Complaints Commissioner as Facilitator of Organizational Change

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2022
In this case study, we describe an approach to dealing with a complicated, systemic, and multi-faceted organizational issue: the continuum of maternal care from antepartum care, birthing, to post-natal care.
Marie-Eve Lemoine, Harvey Sigman, Vania Jimenez, Maude Laliberte   +3 more
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Barriers and facilitators to palliative care of patients with chronic heart failure in Germany: a study protocol

Journal of Public Health Research, 2015
Background. Despite its high prevalence, similar symptoms and symptom burden, people suffering from chronic heart failure receive less palliative care than patients with malignant diseases.
Stefan Köberich, Jeantte Ziehm, Erik Farin, Gerhild Becker   +3 more
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Quality of life in adolescents with a disability and their parents: the mediating role of social support and resilience [PDF]

, 2012
The aim of this study was to test whether the effect of the pile-up of demands associated with a disability on quality of life, was mediated by resilience, quantity and quality of social support for adolescents with a disability and their parents.
Brondeel, Ruben, Buysse, Ann, Maes, Bea, Migerode, Femke   +3 more
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Validity and test-retest reliability of the self-completion adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) with adults with long-term physical, sensory and mental health conditions in England

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
Background The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) is a multi-attribute utility index designed for the evaluation of long-term social care services. The measure comprises eight attributes that capture aspects of social care-related quality of
Stacey Rand, Juliette Malley, Ann-Marie Towers, Ann Netten, Julien Forder   +4 more
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Workplace Innovation, Social Innovation, and Social Quality

International Journal of Social Quality, 2011
Social innovation is becoming a core value of the EU flagship initiative Innovation Union, but it is not clearly demarcated as it covers a wide field of topics. To understand social innovation within European policymaking a brief outline is given of EC policy developments on innovation and on workplace innovation.
Oeij, P.R.A., Dhondt, S., Korver, T.
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Hoe past het? Een kwalitatieve analyse van narratieven van jongeren met een ondersteuningsbehoefte op het gebied van passend onderwijs en passende arbeid

Journal of Social Intervention, 2018
Hoe past het? Een kwalitatieve analyse van narratieven van jongeren met een ondersteuningsbehoefte op het gebied van passend onderwijs en passende arbeidIn zorg, welzijn en onderwijs hebben zich in de afgelopen jaren transities voorgedaan die van invloed
Maritza Gerritsen, Lineke van Hal, Joos Meesters, Bea van Bodegom, Lisbeth Verharen   +4 more
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Study protocol for the implementation and evaluation of a digital-robotic-based intervention for nurses and patients in a hospital: a quantitative and qualitative triangulation based on the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions

BMC Nursing, 2022
Background Nurses spend part of their working time on non-nursing tasks. Unnecessary walking distances and the assumption of service activities and other non-care-related tasks take up a lot of space, which reduces the time for direct patient care and ...
Christoph Ohneberg, Angelika Warmbein, Nicole Stöbich, Ivanka Rathgeber, Astrid Kruppa, Julian Nast-Kolb, Mattias Felix Träger, Aissam Bahou, Oliver Stahl, Inge Eberl, Uli Fischer   +10 more
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Regional social infrastructure management in the system of tools used for improving the quality of life for regional population [PDF]

, 2015
This paper analyzes the processes in the social sphere and the performance of operating the social infrastructure to improve the population’s quality of life in the Russian regions.
Antonyuk, V. S., Bulikeyeva, A. Zh., Danilova, I. V., Mitelman, S.A.   +3 more
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Association of Obesity with SARS-CoV-2 and Its Relationship with the Humoral Response Prior to Vaccination in the State of Mexico: A Cross-Sectional Study

Diagnostics, 2023
Obesity is associated with an increased risk of contracting infections. This study aimed to estimate the risk of COVID-19 infection associated with obesity and to assess its role in the specific antibody response against SARS-CoV-2 in 2021.
Daniel Montes-Herrera, José Esteban Muñoz-Medina, Larissa Fernandes-Matano, Angel Gustavo Salas-Lais, Ma. De Los Ángeles Hernández-Cueto, Clara Esperanza Santacruz-Tinoco, Irma Eloisa Monroy-Muñoz, Javier Angeles-Martínez   +7 more
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