The HIV epidemic continues to pose enormous challenges in the United States both for the communities affected and for health care professionals who serve those communities. Health care providers are increasingly being asked to identify ways to improve the quality … Continued
Conclusion: The results demonstrate the utility of ORA for healthcare research and the relationship of nursing unit communication patterns to patient safety and quality outcomes. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Conclusions: The final screening protocol is highly sensitive and could reduce burden on ART clinicians by 30{ca7ad0b74511a57bb2016f24c729dd7716d5352e92d2275aa1f91fb22c36b0a7}. The uptake and acceptance of the handheld tool to support implementation of the protocol was high. Further examination of the data reveals several … Continued
Conclusion: We observed recurrent patterns in order set usage across multiple sites as well as meaningful variations between sites. Vendors and institutional developers should identify high-value order set types through concrete data analysis in order to optimize the resources devoted … Continued
Conclusion: The limited number of evaluation studies, the basic and heterogeneous study designs, and varied outcome measures make it difficult to meaningfully conclude on the effectiveness of CDSS on quality of HIV care and treatment in resource-limited settings. High quality … Continued
Highlights: ? It is shown that Swedish primary healthcare centres in general reported data to the National Diabetes Register (NDR) using a web-based system. ? Direct transmission system increased the number of patients reported to the NDR. ? Using a … Continued
Conclusion: The reported obstacles were largely common with those previously described in other countries, except the language barrier and the financial non-recognition. Even if the generalization of our results to all French GPs should be cautious, the study provided better … Continued
Conclusion: The mobile patient questionnaires, integrated into the electronic health record, were well accepted in our pilot setting with high usability scores from patients and medical staff alike. The system has also proved to be cost-efficient compared to the paper-based … Continued