improving outcomes
The Queensland experience of participation in a national drug use evaluation project, Community-acquired pneumonia – towards improving outcomes nationally (CAPTION)
... Towards Improving Outcomes Nationally) project was designed as a national quality improvement project, with concurrent drug use evaluations of the management of CAP in the Emergency Department (ED) being ...
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Total knee arthroplasty: improving outcomes with a multidisciplinary approach
... Outcomes following TKA are highly influenced by the degree of patient-directed involvement, including participation in programs such as PT/OT. TKA candidates who are moti- vated, knowledgeable, and willing to ...
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Head and neck cancer: improving outcomes with a multidisciplinary approach
... The multidisciplinary approach, which includes multimodality treatment with S followed by RT, with or without chemotherapy (CT) or concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT), is required for l[r] ...
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Improving outcomes from major trauma
... Effectiveness of major trauma triage systems paper 5: Does the use of dedicated dispatch criteria by Emergency Medical Services optimise appropriate allocation of advanced care resources[r] ...
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Fracture liaison services: improving outcomes for patients with osteoporosis
... best outcomes demonstrated by a coordinator-led intensive services that take responsibility for the whole process, from patient identification following an incident fragility fracture through to investigation and ...
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Improving Outcomes for Underserved Adolescents With Asthma
... In May 2007, the parent of a child with a chronic illness was hired to co- ordinate data tracking, family outreach, appointment scheduling, and preclinic reminders and assessments. Two widely available electronic ...
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Improving outcomes from in hospital cardiac arrest
... treatments and outcomes from in-hospital cardiac arrest.10 While the breadth of coverage across the USA is a major strength, its primary purpose as a quality improvement registry necessarily limits the depth and ...
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Histopathology: improving outcomes in bowel cancer
... Histopathologists play a major role in the assessment of cancer specimens by feeding back various prognostic factors identified through meticulous macroscopic and microscopic examination to the multidisciplinary team at ...
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Improving outcomes for older women with gynaecological malignancies.
... survival outcomes are much poorer in older patients and evidence suggests that older women with gynaecological cancers are less likely to receive current standard of care treatment ...treatment outcomes and ...
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Ambrisentan for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension: improving outcomes
... Four patients had alanine and/or aspartate aminotransferase levels that were greater than three times the upper limit of normal but less than five times the upper limit of normal, and were allowed to continue therapy ...
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Improving-Outcomes-Noncommunicable-Diseases.pdf
... The studies funded by this RTI International Grand Challenge program explored a range of interventions across diverse noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and NCD risk factors in multiple countries in Asia (specifically, ...
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Communication is the key: Improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities
... by the broader multidisciplinary team to increase successful intervention outcomes and pinpoint concerns about care providers who do not enhance communication effectively. Originality / value - The authors suggest ...
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Social Capital: an analytical tool for exploring lifelong learning and community development
... in improving outcomes for communities, when there is a mix of bonding and bridging ties, then a process of community development through informal learning associated with social mobilisation is capable of ...
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Pedagogical motivations and barriers for developing multi-modal distance education courses
... educational outcomes resulting from the adoption and integration of educational technology depend upon ‘simultaneous innovations’ in ‘pedagogy, curriculum and assessment’ (Dede 1997, ...
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Regional anesthesia for the trauma patient: improving patient outcomes
... to improving patient comfort, periph- eral nerve and neuraxial blockade significantly reduces the requirement for systemic opioid analgesia and the adverse effects associated with opioid ...improve outcomes ...
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Improving Pediatric Asthma Outcomes in a Community Emergency Department
... We formed a partnership between our tertiary care pediatric ED and a community ED to improve the emergency care of children with asthma by using an evidence-based asthma pathway ada[r] ...
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Improving transition outcomes in adolescents with permanent hearing loss
... audiological outcomes based on all completing their medical investigations prior to transfer to the adult services and also based on a survey regarding attitudes to hearing aids ...
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Creating a climate of intelligent accountability in all-through academies
... The complexities and challenges of all-through academies are particularly noticeable when considering system accountability. The complexity arises from the time that staff take to become familiar with the phases of ...
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Improving patient experience and outcomes following serious injury
... patient outcomes by coordinating timely access to appropriate care through improved coordination and communication between multidisciplinary staff which can be overseen by trauma ...
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Who should have a pre–discharge home assessment visit after a stroke? A qualitative study of occupational therapists' views
... Thus, in view of the lack of evidence that such visits are effective at improving patient outcomes and the doubt over whether they are cost effective, the research question for this stud[r] ...
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