Browsing by Subject "Health care management"
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A Novel Use of Social Network Analysis and Routinely Collected Data to Uncover Care Coordination Processes for Patients with Heart Failure
(2021)Effective patient care transitions require consideration of the patient’s social and clinical contexts, yet how these factors relate to the processes in care coordination remains poorly described. This dissertation aimed ... -
Accuracy of Smartphone Application Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults
(2023)Background: Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome (OSAHS) is a common sleep disorder that affects millions of adults worldwide, with higher prevalence reported in Asia compared to Western countries. If left untreated, ... -
An Ecological Analysis of Predictors of Hospitalizations for Primary Care Sensitive Conditions under Brazil’s Family Health Strategy
(2017)Background: Primary care sensitive conditions (PCSC), a classification of illnesses that includes noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and maternal health complications, are considered preventable through appropriate care management ... -
An mHealth-Based Medication Reminder Program for Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
(2019)Problem and Purpose: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the second leading cause of death in China. The treatment of CHD typically involves long-term pharmaceutical therapy. For patients with CHD, cardio-protective medications ... -
Assessing Digital Health Equity in Implementation of Virtual Rehabilitation After Total Knee Arthroplasty Among Older Adults in the U.S.: A Case Example
(2021)Background: Digital divide among elderly people is an emerging problem. With more adoption of technology in the health care field, we should be aware of the health inequity generated by the adoption of digital health as ... -
Assessing the Suitability of a Mobile Phone-Based Case Management System for Children in Adversity in Battambang, Cambodia
(2015)AbstractThere are over 250 million children in adversity (CIA) globally; however, insufficient information on prevalence of CIA and their daily needs limits case management of this group by social welfare systems. Recently, ... -
Association Between Major Non-communicable Diseases, Healthcare Use, Financial Burden and Socioeconomic Factors in China: A Cross-Sectional Study
(2021)Background Four major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancer—have become the leading causes of disability-adjusted life-years in China. Curbing these ... -
Attending to the Burden of Disease for Isolated Indigenous Populations of the Amazon: An Experience with Expedicionarios da Saude
(2015)Background: Indigenous People around the world experience inequalities in health care. In Brazil, Indigenous inequalities in health are exacerbated by the poor system of health care delivery. The aim of this study is to ... -
Capacity Assessment and Planning of COVID-19-Vaccination Sites: A Mathematical and Simulation Approach
(2022)Background: To control and minimize the spread of COVID-19, vaccination among the population to achieve herd immunity is important. However, optimizing the vaccination capacity for facility-based vaccination sites and mass ... -
Challenges and Facilitators of Transition from Adolescent to Adult HIV Care among Youth Living with HIV in Moshi, Tanzania
(2018)Background: AIDS is the leading killer of adolescents in Africa, the continent most impacted by the AIDS pandemic. The East African nation of Tanzania is one of the top five countries with the highest burden of HIV in the ... -
Community-based Interventions to Reduce Disparities in Management of Severe Uncontrolled Hypertension in the Southeastern United States
(2023)Background: Hypertension is the leading preventable cause of death and disability around the globe, with clinically and socially derived factors. Despite international guidelines and interventions for care, over 1.28 billion ... -
Dynamic Time Varying Models for Predicting Patient Deterioration
(2017)Streaming data are becoming more common in a variety of fields. One common data stream in clinical medicine is electronic health records (EHRs) which have been used to develop risk prediction models. Our motivating application ... -
Examining How Patients Judge Their Physicians in Online Physician Reviews
(2023)In three essays, this dissertation examines how patients judge their physicians in online physician reviews and whether those judgements align with traditional gender stereotypes. Specifically, I qualitatively explore patients’ ... -
Experiences of Internalized and Enacted Stigma among Women with Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania
(2016)Background: Obstetric fistula is the development of a necrosis between the bladder and the vagina and/or the bladder and the rectum as a result of prolonged obstructed labor, resulting in urinary or fecal incontinence. In ... -
Exploring Private Health Providers’ Perception of Challenges and Opportunities in Providing Quality Maternal and Neonatal Services in Uganda.
(2017)In Uganda, neonatal and maternal mortality rates remain high despite modest improvements in the last decade. Public health officials often believe these mortality rates can be best improved by improving access and quality ... -
Factor Associated with Treatment Initiation of Multidrug Resistance Tuberculosis in Jakarta, Indonesia: A Mixed-Method Study
(2021)Background: Indonesia has one of the highest TB burdens in the world and is one of ten countries that accounted for 77% of the global gap between treatment enrollment and the estimated number of new cases of MDR/RR-TB in ... -
Factors Motivating Emergency Department Attendance Among Patients with Non-Urgent Musculoskeletal Disorders: a Case Study in Qatar
(2015)Background: The rise in the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) places a high burden on healthcare services, especially in the emergency departments (EDs) of hospitals in Western and European countries. MSD-related ... -
Implementation Analysis of a Patient Safety Program in a Pediatric Perioperative Unit in Guatemala
(2019)Background: Patient safety is critical to prevent medical errors and to improve clinical outcomes. The need to implement programs in patient safety is increasingly recognized as a prime component of healthcare delivery in ... -
Is Positive Return on Investment (ROI) Too Good to Be True? A Review of the Quality of Study Methodology in Behavioral Chronic Disease Interventions Claiming Positive ROI
(2017)Objective: To examine the quality of articles that claim cost savings resulting from chronic disease interventions. The interventions are limited to behavioral interventions, including worksite wellness programs, weight ... -
Making Sense of Health Information Technology
(2012)<bold>Background:<bold> Hospital adoption of health information technology (HIT) systems is promoted as essential to decreasing medical error and their associated 44,000 annual deaths and $17 billion in healthcare costs ...
