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Eliminating Language Barriers for LEP Individuals: Promising Practices from the Public Sector [PDF]
, 2010 While the focus of this report is on eliminating language barriers for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals, any strategy to improve communications with this population must also include English learning and address the shortage of high-quality ...
Ted Wang
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Denial of Inpatient Genetic Testing: A Study on Outpatient Yield and Outcomes
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Genetic conditions suspected in children often require genetic testing for accurate diagnoses, but testing remains costly. Case management teams review genetic test requests to improve access for patients while reducing the financial burden for medical institutions.
Cindy Y. Canales +6 more
wiley +1 more source
Prioritization of inquiries to physiotherapy in private practice. A text analysis
Fysioterapeuten, 2020 Purpose: Prioritization guidelines are supposed to support the physiotherapists in prioritizing inquiries. NOU 2018:16 has given three national criteria for prioritization: severity, benefit and resource. The purpose of this study is to look into how the
Gro Askland Øyehaug +2 more
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OPTIMAL SHARING OF SURGICAL COSTS IN THE PRESENCE OF QUEUES [PDF]
We deal with a cost allocation problem arising from sharing a medical service in the presence of queues. We use a standard queuing theory model in a context with several medical procedures, a certain demand of treatment and a maximum average waiting time
Carmen Herrero Blanco, Paula González
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Off Target: How Cuts to Child Care and After School Leave Out Public Housing Communities [PDF]
, 2012 Cuts to child care and after-school proposed in New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Preliminary Budget will lead to thousands more children on even longer waiting lists for these services and many communities will face dramatic losses in these programs. Some
Gregory Bender
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‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
wiley +1 more source
Waiting Times and Waiting Lists: A Model of the Market for Elective Surgery [PDF]
We present a simple dynamic model of the demand and supply for elective surgery in the NHS and test it using a panel of quartely data for 123 English health authorities from the second quarter of 1987 to the first quarter of 1993.
Ana Xavier +2 more
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Reforming Competence Restoration Statutes: An Outpatient Model [PDF]
, 2019 Defendants who suffer from mental illness and are found incompetent to stand trial are often ordered committed to an inpatient mental health facility to restore their competence, even if outpatient care may be the better treatment option.
McMahon, Susan A.
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, 2013 OBJECTIVES: To examine the types of choices available to patients in the English NHS when being referred for acute hospital care in the light of the divergence of patient choice policy in the four countries of the UK. METHODS: Case studies of eight local
Allen, Pauline +10 more
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