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Specialized healthcare practitioners’ challenges in performing video consultations to patients in Nordic Countries – a systematic review and narrative synthesis

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Video consultations are becoming an important telemedicine service in Nordic countries. Its use in specialized healthcare increased significantly during COVID-19 pandemic.
Joanna Barbara Baluszek, Siri Wiig, Kai Victor Myrnes-Hansen, Kolbjørn Kallesten Brønnick   +3 more
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Dairy farmers' responses to water quality interventions : a case study in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Agriculture and Environment, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2018
New Zealand freshwater quality has declined, and dairy farming is one identified contributor to this decline. This research provides insight into dairy farmers responses to the water quality interventions introduced to mitigate diffuse pollution, and the
Collins, Heather Mildred
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Guideline appraisal with AGREE II: online survey of the potential influence of AGREE II items on overall assessment of guideline quality and recommendation for use

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The AGREE II instrument is the most commonly used guideline appraisal tool. It includes 23 appraisal criteria (items) organized within six domains.
Wiebke Hoffmann-Eßer, Ulrich Siering, Edmund A. M. Neugebauer, Anne Catharina Brockhaus, Natalie McGauran, Michaela Eikermann   +5 more
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Psychometric validation of the death literacy index and benchmarking of death literacy level in a representative uk population sample

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Death literacy includes the knowledge and skills that people need to gain access to, understand, and make informed choices about end of life and death care options.
Lisa Graham-Wisener, Paul Toner, Rosemary Leonard, Jenny M. Groarke   +3 more
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Towards modeling of comprehensive assessment for licensing in higher education [PDF]

, 2013
In the modern society information technologies, services, quality become the determinative factors of success of any business. The questions of quality management are especially relevant in social sphere, since organization oriented on quality of its ...
Cherednichenko, Olga, Liutenko, I., Pylypenko, A., Yanholenko, Olha   +3 more
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Application of Supercomputer Technologies for Simulation of Socio-Economic Systems [PDF]

, 2015
To date, an extensive experience has been accumulated in investigation of problems related to quality, assessment of management systems, modeling of economic system sustainability.
Bakhtizin, A. R., Kuzmina, S. N., Makarov, V. L., Okrepilov, V. V.   +3 more
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Robot-assisted mobilisation in the intensive care unit: does it offer relief to mobilising specialists? A qualitative longitudinal study at a German university hospital

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Background Immobility among intensive care patients can result in significant impairments. Reasons for this issue include a lack of specialised staff and equipment, as well as safety concerns associated with transferring patients to a therapy device ...
A. C. Mehler-Klamt, J. Huber, N. Koestler, A. Warmbein, I. Rathgeber, U. Fischer, I. Eberl   +6 more
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Enhancing User Experience for Multi-Screen Social TV Streaming over Wireless Networks

, 2014
Recently, multi-screen cloud social TV is invented to transform TV into social experience. People watching the same content on social TV may come from different locations, while freely interact with each other through text, image, audio and video.
Jin, Yichao, Wen, Yonggang, Zhang, Huazi, Zhang, Weiwen   +3 more
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Socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors and burden of morbidity associated with self-reported hearing and vision impairments in older British community-dwelling men: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Hearing and vision problems are common in older adults. We investigated the association of self-reported sensory impairment with lifestyle factors, chronic conditions, physical functioning, quality of life and social interaction.
Carvalho, LA, Iliffe, S, Lennon, LT, Liljas, AEM, Papacosta, O, Ramsay, SE, Walters, K, Wannamethee, SG, Whincup, PH   +8 more
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Financial Burdens and Barriers to Care Among Nonelderly Adults With Heart Disease: 2010–2015

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background We examined the prevalence of high burdens and barriers to care among adults with heart disease treatment. Methods and Results The participants were aged 18 to 64 years from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey–Household Component (MEPS‐HC ...
Didem Bernard, Zhengyi Fang
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