Health education conducted by community health workers (CHWs) is an evidence-based strategy for promoting cancer prevention, cancer screening, and adherence to medical guidance from doctors. However, CHWs are confronted with some problems related to canc
Maps are increasingly understood as socio-cultural and political constructs, rather than mirrors of nature. Drawing on the insights of cultural cartographers, this paper presents a critical analysis of a specific instance of map-making in health policy, namely the growing use of care pathways in ...
Health education conducted by community health workers (CHWs) is an evidence-based strategy for promoting cancer prevention, cancer screening, and adherence to medical guidance from doctors. However, CHWs are confronted with some problems related to canc
through our systematic literature review. We contributed to these findings by identifying themes in qualitative data.. Our findings are crucial to identify factors preventing NHS doctors from seeking help for their mental health so that more can be done on a national, trust-wide...
Given that older adults are not homogenous, telecare may support people in different ways or may not be able to meet everyone’s needs. A realist approach enables the exploration of what works for whom and how. This methodology is well suited for addressing the recognised need for further ...
While there are more than 40 RCA techniques used in healthcare, all versions use a structured process for creating chronological maps, undertaking interviews and analysing other data, and developing cause-effect diagrams and recommendations [4, 5]. A small multidisciplinary team is appointed and util...
In such circumstances, the best evidence may be custom and practice in the best-performing units. The quality improvement effort becomes oriented to what one group of researchers called “potentially better practices”—that is, practices that are “developed through analysis of the processes of ...
However, implementation outcomes are seldom measured in acute healthcare settings, such as Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU), and if they are used, are likely to be non-validated, site or intervention-specific measures. To address this literature gap, this systematic review of systematic ...
There are regularly updated guidelines and standards for coding (e.g., in Public Health Scotland6). Usually, it can take months or longer to train an expert clinical coder in the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK, and worldwide 7. Automated clinical coding is the idea that clinical...
💰 Follow the money:Contracts, invoices and budget information let you see where public money goes, ensuring greater accountability for how funds are allocated and spent. 🧩 Fill in the gaps:You can ask a group of authorities to build or extract a dataset that didn't exist. This can fil...