The act of prescribing multiple medications. No formal agreement on the number of medications exists but usually classed as those on four to six medications a day. In older adults this increases the risk of side effects and adverse events. Telemedicine Remote delivery of health or social care us...
This administration had goals to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and introduce block-grant funding to Medicaid, which remained a possibility throughout our data collection period. For people with chronic illnesses, the ACA was significant; it mandated that pre-existing conditions be covered by...
When classed as medically fit he was sent back home to the family house, but unfortunately, he struggled living back in this environment. Albert* began to have outbursts of verbal and physical aggression and therefore this placement failed. Albert* moved into Glasshouse Hill to enable his ...
Meg* was mum’s focus 100% of the time which created anxieties when Laura, the Paediatric Consultant, realised that she needed some support. She also wanted to maintain as much normality and choice for Meg* as possible. Laura began to research the benefits of a blended diet via Meg’s* ...
Self-reported asthma severity was elicited by asking participants whether their doctor had described their asthma as ‘mild’, ‘moderate’ or ‘severe’. Asthma control was measured by the ACT, as previously described.37Self-reported healthcare seeking was elicited by asking participants how many ...
Respondents are adults aged sixteen and over, excluding those who were classed as dependent children. A stratified cluster probability sample design is applied to selected addresses in Great Britain from the Royal Mail’s small users’ Postcode Address File (PAF). For Northern Ireland, a systematic...
even where the data is limited. This is echoed by Tamsin Yawar, who writes that when Muslim-heritage children are classed as black or Asian this can undermine their identity and hinder reunion. According to her, “Matching religion is especially important for Muslims.” (1992, as quoted in ...
In these instances, support staff might act to implement the nurses' orders. We noted a smaller subset of studies (n = 6) which reported on the reasons for missed nursing care as put forward by nurses using the MISSCARE tool. These were all labour-related reasons and included ...
This paper uses Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a case study, but I suggest that the key problems identified could apply to other cases within healthcare, such as those classed as Medically Unexplained Illnesses, Functional Neurological Disorders and Psychiatric Disorders. Future ...
(p = 0.031) when pulp exposures were classed as failure. The trial has limited generalizability to SCRIPT’s context and patients: it recruited participants with more severe caries and its two interventions differed from SCRIPT’s. Their partial approach (2-step) was similar to CCR; their...