The shift in tasks from primary care physicians toward practice nurses may have implications for clinical and patient outcomes as patients will no longer be counseled by male professionals. Conceivably, female patients are motivated more by nurses to change their behavior, while male patients receive...
"Knowing the patient" encompasses the complex process whereby the nurse acquires understanding of a specific patient as a unique individual, which subsequently enhances clinical decision-making, selection of optimal nursing interventions, and patient outcomes. Despite these heralded benefits, "knowing the ...
作者: Birgit Leisen and Michael R Hyman 摘要: Antecedents and consequences of patients' trust in their primary care physician (PCP) are explored by analyzing self-administered questionnaires returned by 214 patients. In accord with the marketing literature, patients' trust in their physician ...
These findings suggest several avenues for future research regarding sign-out processes, outcomes, and interventions. Physicians use many information sources and interact with multiple staff members to provide care at night. Thus, future research using prospective, direct observation designs in multicenter...
Changing patterns of chemotherapy relative dose intensity and supportive care for aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Maintaining high relative dose intensity (RDI) is associated with improved outcomes, especially in patients with aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NH... Gary,H,Lyman,... ...
Now is the time to think critically about how to leverage digital tools and large data platforms to effectively, efficiently, and inclusively generate the practical cardiovascular evidence needed for clinical decision-making and health care policy-making. The deterioration in health outcomes in the ...
There is also confusion between arguments for a "blame-free" culture in the healthcare system and the need to attribute responsibility in some cases. Important elements in an ethical response to mistakes include disclosure to the patient and family; taking appropriate clinical steps to mitigate any...
Conclusions The cost burden from unscheduled care use in the last year of life of cancer patients is significant. Opportunities to prioritise service reconfiguration for high-costing users emphasized lung and colorectal cancers as offering the greatest potential to influence outcomes.Similar...
Multivariate logistic and linear regressions were used to identify factors associated with successful clinical and microbiological outcomes.The study population was primarily elderly, frequently in a critical care unit, with low serum albumin and with a high probability of failure and mortality. Patients ...
of this study are to (1) calculate the costs associated with different degrees of ADRs and determine total Medicare payments on ADRs as well as their proportion of total healthcare spending and (2) evaluate the incidence of ADRs, characteristics of hospitalized ADR patients, and outcomes of ...