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Browsing by Subject "Ambulatory Care"
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Can caregivers report their care recipients' post-stroke hospitalizations and outpatient visits accurately? Findings of an Asian prospective stroke cohort.
(BMC health services research, 2018-10-25)<h4>Background</h4>Health services research aimed at understanding service use and improving resource allocation often relies on collecting subjectively reported or proxy-reported healthcare service utilization (HSU) data. ... -
Designing risk prediction models for ambulatory no-shows across different specialties and clinics.
(Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2018-08)Objective:As available data increases, so does the opportunity to develop risk scores on more refined patient populations. In this paper we assessed the ability to derive a risk score for a patient no-showing to a clinic ... -
Establishing a regional, multisite database for quality improvement and service planning in community-based palliative care and hospice.
(J Palliat Med, 2010-08)BACKGROUND: Outpatient palliative care, an evolving delivery model, seeks to improve continuity of care across settings and to increase access to services in hospice and palliative medicine (HPM). It can provide a critical ... -
Implications of practice setting on clinical outcomes and efficiency of care in the delivery of physical therapy services.
(J Orthop Sports Phys Ther, 2014-12)STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of episodes of care. OBJECTIVE: To assess the implications of practice setting (hospital outpatient settings versus private practice) on clinical outcomes and efficiency of care in the ... -
Nurse-Patient Rapport During Videoconferencing Visits in Oncology Ambulatory Care
(2023)Care of individuals with cancer represents a significant aspect of nursing; projections of new cases will continue to rise nationally and internationally. Rapport is generated within the context of an interaction between ... -
Pilot Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence Among Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using Pharmacy Refill Data.
(Arthritis care & research, 2023-03)<h4>Objective</h4>Despite high rates of medication nonadherence among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), effective interventions to improve adherence in SLE are limited. We aimed to assess the feasibility ... -
Practice-Level Variation in Outpatient Cardiac Care and Association With Outcomes.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2016-02-23)BACKGROUND: Utilization of cardiac services varies across regions and hospitals, yet little is known regarding variation in the intensity of outpatient cardiac care across cardiology physician practices or the association ... -
Preferences of people living with HIV for differentiated care models in Kenya: A discrete choice experiment.
(PloS one, 2021-01)<h4>Introduction</h4>To improve retention on HIV treatment in Africa, public health programs are promoting a family of innovations to service delivery-referred to as "differentiated service delivery" (DSD) models-which seek ... -
Provider specialty and atrial fibrillation treatment strategies in United States community practice: findings from the ORBIT-AF registry.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2013-07-18)BACKGROUND: The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) continues to increase; however, there are limited data describing the division of care among practitioners in the community and whether care differs depending on provider ... -
Telehealth transformation: COVID-19 and the rise of virtual care.
(Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2020-06)The novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has altered our economy, society, and healthcare system. While this crisis has presented the U.S. healthcare delivery system with unprecedented challenges, the pandemic ... -
The comparison of the commonly used surrogates for baseline renal function in acute kidney injury diagnosis and staging.
(BMC nephrology, 2016-01)<h4>Background</h4>Baseline serum creatinine (SCr) level is frequently not measured in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of various methods of baseline SCr determination measurement on ... -
Transmission of MRSA between companion animals and infected human patients presenting to outpatient medical care facilities.
(PLoS One, 2011)Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a significant pathogen in both human and veterinary medicine. The importance of companion animals as reservoirs of human infections is currently unknown. The companion ... -
Treatment use and barriers among adolescents with prescription opioid use disorders.
(Addictive behaviors, 2011-12)This study examined national trends, patterns, correlates, and barriers to substance abuse treatment use by adolescents aged 12-17 years who met at least one of the past-year criteria for prescription opioid abuse or dependence ... -
Variability in performance measures for assessment of hypertension control.
(Am Heart J, 2013-05)BACKGROUND: Definitions of multiple performance measures exist for the assessment of blood pressure control; however, limited data on how these technical variations may affect actual measured performance are available. METHODS: ...
