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... OVERALL HEALTH CARE The inadequacy of M/SU health care is a dimension of the poor quality of all health care The quality problems of overall health care received substantial attention among the health ... Care, The Quality Chasm’s Ten Rules to Guide the Redesign of Health Care, 2-1 2-2 The Six Aims of High -Quality Health Care, 57 The Quality Chasm’s Ten Rules to Guide the Redesign of Health Care, ... report, and improve the quality of M/SU health care is less well developed than that for general health care As a result, there has been less measurement and improvement of M/SU health care than of...

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... of caregiving and the caregiver's perceived ability to cope with caregiving tasks and manage day-to-day problems The mastery scale has Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and ... ratings of dyspnea Another aim was to explore the relation of the patient's dyspnea and related variables to the patient's quality of life as well as the effect on the caregiver's quality of life ... intensity, symptom distress, and functional status, explain variance in the patient's perceived quality of life? Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Models of consulting and EL health care; - Model of EL health care in the community; - Models of EL health care at commune health facilities; - Model of EL health care in the hospital; - Models of ... consent of the government, local health and research subjects - The Board of Moral Health of Binh Duong Department of Health and Hygiene and Epidemiology Institute accepted 2.2.7 Limitations of the ... burden of health care spending, health services network for EL was weak and below the health care needs of EL 4.1.1.3 On the use of medical services for elderly people On the use of health services...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 14:07

... Despite decades of efforts to improve quality of health care, poor performance persists in many aspects of care Patients often not receive guideline-recommended processes of care [1-3], and risk-adjusted ... that the production of statistical associations is often based on the experience of a large sample of organizations and, particularly for health care, produced in a language and with methods that ... interviews and focus groups with staff, archival reviews of documents from the organization, or a combination of these methods, with the goal of developing a deep understanding of the organization and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... Despite decades of efforts to improve quality of health care, poor performance persists in many aspects of care Patients often not receive guideline-recommended processes of care [1-3], and risk-adjusted ... that the production of statistical associations is often based on the experience of a large sample of organizations and, particularly for health care, produced in a language and with methods that ... interviews and focus groups with staff, archival reviews of documents from the organization, or a combination of these methods, with the goal of developing a deep understanding of the organization and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... endowments, and µf is a vector of family-level and individual level constraints, µc is a set of constraints at the community-level, and z and p are the quality and price of all available medical care ... Pelletier, 1994; Monckeberg 1992) Health care providers that practice high quality prenatal and child healthcare can directly influence the efficacy of the production of child health inasmuch as their ... productivity of medical care, such as age and education, and those that only affect health through their influence on which and what type of medical care to obtain Factors such as medical care prices,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... then the titles "Health- related quality of life outcomes" and Health and quality of life" are closer to the journal's intent James W Varni, Ph.D Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, ... patients' and caregivers' perspectives) as well as other health outcomes Michael A.Weitzner, MD Chief of Palliative Care Associate Professor of Oncology and Psychiatry Psychosocial and Palliative Care ... Italy Quality of Life Outcomes: I prefer this because it is brief and to the point! I believe it can be inclusive of not only overall quality of life but also elements of quality of life such as health...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Form 36: a valid and reliable measure of health- related quality of life Crit Care Med 2000, 28:3599-3605 Pettila V, Kaarlola A and Makelainen A Health- related quality of life of multiple organ ... support and Section for Medical Statistics, Dept of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen 22 References 23 Zaren B and Bergstrom R Survival compared to the general population and ... Quality of life after prolonged intensive care Crit Care Med 1999, 27:11321139 Heyland DK, Hopman W, Coo H, Tranmer J and McColl MA Longterm health- related quality of life in survivors of sepsis...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... goals of improved exercise tolerance and emotional function (health- related quality of life) and also important clinical goals such as prevention of disease progression and minimization of symptoms ... perception of change in their state of health in comparison with the previous visit, using the global rating of change Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life ... both quality of life questionnaires Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, Results Sixty-seven questionnaires were returned (87%) The data of...

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... by quality for use in economic evaluations and decision models Preference-based health state scores or utilities not have natural units Since health is a function of both length of life and quality ... framework and item selection Medical Care 1992, 30:473-483 Ware JE Jr, Snow KK, Kosinski M and Gandek B SF-36 Health Survey Manual and Interpretation Guide Boston, MA: The Health Institute, New England ... patients with osteoarthritis of the lower extremities Arthritis & Rheumatism 2001, 4:384-391 Hays RD and Morales LS The RAND-36 measure of health- related quality of life Annals of Medicine 2001, 33(5):350-357...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, Background In response to demands by stakeholders and the evolving field of quality measurement, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Care ... surveys without fear of data quality problems Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, This does not mean, however, that health services researchers ... views expressed here are those of the author and not necessarily represent the position of the Centers for Medicare and Medical Services, or the U.S Department of Health and Human Services Sonya Bowen,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 1985, 70:662680 Anderson RT, Aaronson NK, Leplege AP and Wilkin D International use and application of generic health- related quality of life instruments In: Quality of life and Pharmacoeconomics ... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, Authors' contributions NL and JT designed and supervised the study, analyzed and interpreted data, and ... International Quality of Life Assessment Project (IQOLA) [34] and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Study Group [35] In addition to conceptual and psychometric...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... increased rates of utilization of primary care medical services [57–60] The same pattern of increased health care utilization has also been reported for conditions of milder depression and dysthymia ... G and Nettlebladt L Perceived health and high consumers of care: A study of mental health problems in a Swedish health care district Psychological Medicine 1993, 23:770 Lane JS Medical cost offset: ... [63], and, tellingly, a meta-analysis of 58 early controlled studies of brief psychotherapy found decreases in healthcare utilization of 10–33% in 85% of the studies [70] General Medical Illness Health...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... GA and Worden TJ The experience and expression of anger: Construction and validation of an anger expression scale In: Anger Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of ... impact of TM on school-related conduct problems and attendance by assessing possible changes in perceived negative affective Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of ... 6:245-262 Haratani T and Hemmi T Effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on the mental health of industrial workers Japanese Journal of Industrial Health 1990, 32:656 Davis L Management of depression...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... regardless of whether any indi- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/12 Table 1: Health- related quality of life ... associated with Role Function and positively associated with Mental Health For the dimension of Role Function, Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, ... differences in HRQOL Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/12 Table 3: Adjusted health- related quality of life measures,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... goals of improved exercise tolerance and emotional function (health- related quality of life) and also important clinical goals such as prevention of disease progression and minimization of symptoms ... perception of change in their state of health in comparison with the previous visit, using the global rating of change Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life ... both quality of life questionnaires Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, Results Sixty-seven questionnaires were returned (87%) The data of...

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... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, HADS may result in under estimation of psychiatric morbidity among women with early stage breast cancer and ... emotional functioning and global quality of life as was expected This means that those who were more anxious or depressed showed lower levels of emotional functioning and global quality of life Thus this ... Anxiety and Depression Scale: a review of validation data and clinical results J Psychosom Res 1997, 42:17-41 Bjelland I, Dahl AA, Tangen Haug T and Neckelmann The validity of the Hospital Anxiety and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... evaluation of such interventions and programs is an important aspect of outcomes research on quality of care A variety of psychosocial interventions have been designed to enhance the HQOL of cancer ... a health care professional, and delivered in an asynchronous newsgroup format It is noteworthy that the involvement of a health professional as the moderator (or facilitator, or navigator), and ... or to those who are at an increased risk of cancer An aspect of good -quality care that has received increasing recognition is health- related quality of life (HQOL) HQOL is a dynamic phenomenon,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Kazis LE, Anderson JJ and Meenan RF Effect sizes for interpreting changes in health status Med Care 1989, 27:S178-89 Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life ... [24] Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/17 Table 6: Ceiling and floor effects of the KOOS and WOMAC Percentage ... Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/17 Table 5: Effect sizes and Standardized Response Mean (SRM) and 12...

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... 276:1253-1258 Bennett KJ and Torrance GW: Measuring health state preferences and utilities: rating scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble techniques In: Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics ... measuring health- related quality of life J Chronic Dis 1987, 40:593-600 Weinstein MC, Siegel JE, Gold MR, Kamlet MS and Russell LB: Recommendations of the panel on cost-effectiveness in health and ... classification of disease severity [18] Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/18 the subject's need of time to...

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