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Johnston, Janice Mary. "Ambulatory care: a comparison of event and episode utilisation patterns." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31237125.
Full textRouvrais, Siegfried. "Utilisation d'agents mobiles pour la construction de services distribués." Rennes 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002REN10035.
Full textRoberts, Nicola. "Using attachment theory within mental health community services to improve patient outcomes and reduce service utilisation costs." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/using-attachment-theory-within-mental-health-community-services-to-improve-patient-outcomes-and-reduce-service-utilisation-costs(78a9832e-0e8f-4d2b-a6a4-8d7ffdf5aa6d).html.
Full textMonnot, Elisa Marie. "L’expérience d’apprentissage du client : la première utilisation d’un produit-service." Paris 9, 2010. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2010PA090014.
Full textWhile consumer knowledge is seen as a fundamental construct in consumer behaviour research, customer competencies development received very little attention in marketing literature. Academic researchers have also shown less concern with service-product usage. This dissertation investigates the dynamics and heterogeneity of customer learning experience during first service-product use. This doctoral study aims at having a better understanding of how customers develop their competencies and learn how to use services-products after purchase. It relies on multidisciplinary research works about competencies, learning and product usage. This research examines the customer learning experience during first service-product use through two qualitative studies: (1) via in-depth retrospective interviews to explain how customers perceive their first service-product use experiences; (2) via an experiential study, with video recorded observations and interviews, to determine different learning trajectories for first service-product use. Managerial implications are also discussed to improve usage assistance and customer education strategies
CHAGNAUD, MAURICE. "Utilisation pratique d'un micro-ordinateur au sein d'un service hospitalier." Aix-Marseille 2, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990AIX20227.
Full textFernandez, Plotka Jose-Luis. "Utilisation and service productivities in community social care for older people." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423140.
Full textMacey, Steven Michael. "Assessing the excess health service utilisation and direct medical costs of injuries." Thesis, Swansea University, 2010. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42913.
Full textNätti, S. (Satu). "Customer-related knowledge utilisation in the collaborative relationships of professional service organisation." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2005. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514279123.
Full textXu, Fang, and 徐方. "Self-rated health, chronic diseases and health service utilisation in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212607.
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Williams, Jonathan Mark. "Energy utilisation and combined heat & power sizing in the health service." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273836.
Full textBhatti, J. V. "Acculturation, shame, & self-compassion : an examination of mental health service utilisation." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2018. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3027481/.
Full textMarriott, Paul James. "Does the process of implementing service line management affect the theatre utilisation?" Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5247/.
Full textVIGUIER, PATRICK. "Utilisation du midazolam intra-nasal dans l'agitation psychomotrice dans un service d'urgence." Angers, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994ANGE1038.
Full textPaineau, Virginie. "Prescription et utilisation de médicaments dans un service de long séjour de gériatrie." Paris 5, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA05P104.
Full textCheung, Chui Wah Edwin. "Survey of dental service utilisation by year six students in Western Sydney Area." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4718.
Full textMacRae, Jayden. "Using a natural experiment to assess the effect of spatial barriers on health service utilization." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9346.
Full textRomero-Prada, Jaime-Ricardo. "An appraisal of cattle production service utilisation in Colombia using the stakeholder analysis approach." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269645.
Full textSaignac, Pierre-Alain. "Utilisation et utilité du dépôt de sang du service des urgences de l'hôpital Pellegrin." Bordeaux 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR23094.
Full textOlsson, Lena. "Children with mild intellectual disability and their families – needs for support, service utilisation and experiences of support." Doctoral thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ. CHILD, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-29604.
Full textAnskär, Eva. "Time flies in primary care : a study on time utilisation and perceived psychosocial work environment." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för medicin och hälsa, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-156119.
Full textBakgrund: Under de senaste decennierna har det i svensk primärvård varit omfattande omorganisationer, vilket har påverkat arbetstidens innehåll. Arbetssituationen är komplex och omfattningen av administration har ökat. Det övergripande syftet med föreliggande studie var att beskriva arbetstidens innehåll bland personal i svensk primärvård och att undersöka samband mellan upplevd psykosocial arbetsmiljö och arbetsuppgifternas legitimitet. Metod: Studien har genomförts som en deskriptiv multicenterstudie med tvärsnittsdesign och inkluderade sjuksköterskor, läkare, vårdadministratörer, undersköterskor och övriga professioner (fysioterapeuter, arbetsterapeuter, psykologer, kuratorer, dietister och fotvårdsspecialister) vid elva vårdcentraler i sydöstra Sverige. Studien inleddes med att deltagarna ombads att besvara ett frågeformulär vars första del bestod av en skattning av hur arbetsuppgifterna var fördelade. Frågeformuläret innehöll också frågor om illegitima arbetsuppgifter; Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale (BITS) och psykosocial arbetsmiljö; Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ). Därefter gjordes en tidsstudie där deltagarna fick registrera tidsåtgången för olika arbetsuppgifter, varje dag under två separata veckor. Arbetsuppgifterna delades upp i tre huvudkategorier; direkt patientarbete, indirekt patientarbete och övrigt arbete. Varje huvudkategori hade flera underkategorier. Svarsfrekvensen var 75% för frågeformuläret och 79% för tidsstudien. Resultat: Resultatet från delarbete I visar att personal i primärvård ägnade 37% av arbetstiden direkt med patienter. Alla professioner skattade den direkta patienttiden till större andel än vad tidsstudien visade. Läkare upplevde sämst psykosocial arbetsmiljö avseende kvantitativa krav, stress och rollkonflikter. Det förelåg ett samband mellan andelen administrativa arbetsuppgifter och rollkonflikter, ju mer administration desto mer rollkonflikter. I delstudie II visade resultatet att mer än en fjärdedel av läkarna upplevde en hög nivå av illegitima arbetsuppgifter avseende onödiga arbetsuppgifter, vilket var signifikant mer jämfört med andra professioner. För personalgruppen som helhet framträdde ett samband mellan upplevelsen av att ha mycket illegitima arbetsuppgifter och upplevelse av negativ psykosocial arbetsmiljö samt med hög andel administrationsrelaterade arbetsuppgifter. Konklusion: Personal i primärvård ägnar en begränsad andel av arbetstiden åt direkt patientarbete och läkare upplever sämre psykosocial arbetsmiljö än övriga professioner. Arbetstidens fördelning mellan olika arbetsuppgifter påverkar den psykosociala arbetsmiljön. Upplevelsen av att utföra en stor andel illegitima arbetsuppgifter påverkar den psykosociala arbetsmiljön negativt, vilket kan ha inverkan på hur personalen uppfattar sin professionella roll. Upplevelsen av att ha mycket oskäliga arbetsuppgifter har samband med hög andel icke patientrelaterad administration. Avhandlingen belyser vikten av att beslutsfattare noga överväger fördelningen av icke patientrelaterade arbetsuppgifter bland personal i primärvård, för att möjliggöra effektiv användning av personalresurserna och för att främja goda arbetsförhållanden. Förhoppningen är också att studiens resultat ska bidra till fortsatt utveckling av primärvården så att den medicinska kompetensen kommer patienterna till nytta i så stor omfattning som möjligt.
Schlecht, Nicolas F. "Physiological and psychosocial determinants of health-care service utilisation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0024/MQ50872.pdf.
Full textPerera, Annie M. "Psychological factors associated with service utilisation in clients fulfilling diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder." Thesis, Coventry University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368835.
Full textNoor, Abdisalan Mohamed. "Developing spatial models of health service access and utilisation to define health equity in Kenya." Thesis, Open University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417576.
Full textFernandez, Jose-Luis. "Utilisation and service productivities in community social care for older people : patterns and policy implications." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/135/.
Full textRODRIGUEZ, LUC. "Utilisation des indices pronostiques et therapeutiques dans un service de reanimation polyvalente au centre hospitalier." Aix-Marseille 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988AIX20120.
Full textSooful, Prasha. "The maintenance and utilisation of government fitted hearing aids." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132006-091720.
Full textYélémou, Tiguiane. "Utilisation du taux d'erreur binaire pour améliorer la qualité de service dans les réseaux ad hoc." Thesis, Poitiers, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012POIT2317/document.
Full textIn ad hoc wireless networks, links are error-prone. In this context, routing plays a decisive role inimproving transmission performances. In our studies, by a cross-layer approach, we take intoaccount the reliability of links in route choice. For this, first, we concept two new metrics, onebased on bit error rate (at physical layer) and the other, more suitable for the measurement, onnumber of retransmissions (at MAC layer). Then, to exploit these metrics when determining routes,we adapt the algorithms based routing protocols.The three families of routing protocols have been addressed: proactive protocols where eachnode has a global view of the network through periodic exchanges of topology control messages;reactive protocols where, before starting data transmission, each node must initiate a routediscovery process; hybrid protocols which mix the two approaches.To test the effectiveness of our enhancements, we use the simulator NS.2 enhanced by arealistic propagation model and a realistic mobility model. Performance parameters such as delay,packets delivery ratio and routing load are measured in several scenarios including mobility andmulti-communication. The results show a significant improvement of standard protocols in thequality of service context
Chateau, Thierry Michel de. "Utilisation clinique des dermocorticoi͏̈des : étude réalisée dans un service de dermatologie, son intérêt et ses dangers." Paris 5, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA05P022.
Full textBATAILLON, YVES. "Utilisation des morphinomimetiques au service d'aide medicale urgente de saint-etienne : etude de 384 interventions primaires." Saint-Etienne, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994STET6206.
Full textMaddams, Jacob. "Cancer prevalence in the United Kingdom : current estimates, future projections and health service utilisation among cancer survivors." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2012. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/cancer-prevalence-in-the-united-kingdom(774b2620-4501-4ea4-bcf9-fc2309986c7f).html.
Full textDANG-VAN, CAO AN HOA. "Utilisation du propofol dans le cadre d'un service d'urgences chirurgicales et dans l'optique d'une anesthesie ambulatoire eventuelle." Toulouse 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU31182.
Full textCAZALAS, YVAN. "Utilisation de l'etomidate dans le cadre d'un service d'urgences chirurgicales et dans l'optique d'une anesthesie ambulatoire eventuelle." Toulouse 3, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989TOU31137.
Full textSiboni, Didier. "La gestion de service sur les réseaux hétérogènes interconnectes : utilisation des techniques d'intelligence artificielle et architectures hybrides." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997VERS0005.
Full textNhokwara, Primrose Tinashe. "Factors that influence the utilisation of ototoxicity monitoring services for patients on treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15683.
Full textMatondolo, Siyamthanda Luthando. "Utilisation of ICT in healthcare centre to support HIV/AIDS flow of information and service delivery In Khayelitsha." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2477.
Full textThis research is an attempt to investigate the utilisation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Healthcare to support the flow of HIV/AIDS patient’s general information in public and private sector. Furthermore, the research examines the detail flow of database information for healthcare service delivery to patients, in particular HIV/AIDS patients, in Khayelitsha Township. Finally, the research will detail the types of technologies currently being utilised to transfer this information, technology utilised for capturing or data collection profile of the patient. The research study data collecting was done in 2009 in mostly private and public healthcare centre in Khayelitsha township. First, the study will concentrate on general utilisation of ICT in healthcare service delivery and flow of information for public and private sector healthcare centres. Additionally, the research also looks at NGOs such as HIV/AIDS Unit in Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and Treament Action Campaign (TAC) to find out what ICT equipment is being utilised to transfer this information to adult people to inform and make them to be aware of HIV/AIDS and improve healthcare service delivery to patients and particularly to HIV/AIDS patients. Taking NGO’s such as TAC and CPUT HIV/AIDS Unit that are well informed about HIV/AIDS, nationally and internationally will make our research results to be more precise. The research will also look at the utilisation of ICT in flow of information at healthcare centre such as communication between healthcare providers such as receptionist/clerk, nurses, doctors and medical researchers since they are the first people who deal with HIV/AIDS patient cases when they come for healthcare provision.
ALLEGRE, JEAN. "Etude comparative des pathologies des malades hospitalises dans les services d'urgences medicales de l'hopital edouard herriot : utilisation des resumes de sejour informatises de l'annee 1987." Lyon 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989LYO1M063.
Full textOverland, Jane Elizabeth. "Factors that affect the delivery of diabetes care." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/365.
Full textOverland, Jane Elizabeth. "Factors that affect the delivery of diabetes care." University of Sydney. Medicine, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/365.
Full textNguyen, Mai Phuong. "Contribution of private healthcare to universal health coverage: an investigation of private over public health service utilisation in Vietnam." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/225903/1/Mai%20Phuong_Nguyen_Thesis.pdf.
Full textDevaux, Caroline. "Résilience des services écosystémiques à l’échelle du paysage : un cadre conceptuel et une analyse pour un socio-écosystème de montagne." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAV002/document.
Full textAs evidenced by the number of studies on the subject, the recent millennium ecosystem assessment and the establishment of a working group on resilience (« Resilience Alliance »), the interest of the scientific community in ecosystem services and their resilience in the face of global change (environmental or social) is steadily increasing. Definitions of resilience are highly varied, and we used concepts such as resistance, specific resilience (« of what to what ? »), generalised resilience, adaptability and transformability to develop a conceptual and methodological framework to study the resilience of ecosystem service provision. This conceptual framework was applied to compare the potential resilience of differing sub-alpine grasslands types in three local government areas in the area of the Col du Lautaret (Hautes-Alpes, France) for a number of locally and regionally important ecosystem services. We proposed two approaches for evaluating the potential resilience of the different states in which a socio-ecosystem can exist, by considering resilience as the capacity of a system to maintain a stable provision of an ecosystem service (resistance component), as well as its capacity to adapt this provision if needed (components of resilience, transition, transformation depending on the degree of adaptation). A first stage of the quantification of ecosystem services was followed by an initial analysis of each of these services via the evaluation of their « operating ranges », defined as the range of values that a service can take given a particular state of the socio-ecosystem. The organizational scale at which these ranges are evaluated links them to other components of resilience. Our results confirm the utility of considering the specific resilience of each service, as the profiles of their resistance are different. In particular, the types of grasslands with the highest resilience component potential are not the same from one site to another, even though in all cases these resilience component potentials are rather high as compared to other components potentials. The second analysis is based on the theoretical hypothesis that it is the increasing diversity of response traits (heterogeneity and redundancy) which increases resistance. We hypothesised that, when it is response traits that have been used to model ecosystem services, the functional diversity of a plant community can be linked to its overall resistance in terms of ecosystem services. We linked a number of measures of functional diversity to resilience potential, including the α and β dimensions of entropy and functional diversity, and the redundancy and complementarity of functional groups. The obtained results for the grasslands at Lautaret lead us to reject the hypothesis which proposes that the functional diversity of plant communities can be used to predict the patterns of resilience of the analysed ecosystem services, as these do not correspond to the patterns of resistance obtained from the approach using operating ranges. Finally, we suggest that to assess the capacity of a socio-ecosystem to maintain the provision of ecosystem services, our approach using operating ranges is preferable as it allows for the quantification of the resistance profile of each service. This approach could be further developed using scenario building so as to determine « to what » the provision of each service is resistant
Plamping, Diane. "Increasing access and utilisation : a study of a school-based mobile dental service in a sample of primary schools." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339950.
Full textMercier-Méthé, Laurence. "Motifs de non-utilisation des services et programmes par les proches aidants de personnes atteintes de démence." Thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2012/29218/29218.pdf.
Full textVisser, Elizna. "Die benutting van lewenskaarte as hulpmiddel in pleegsorg dienslewering / E. Visser." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4446.
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Rosier, Bruno. "Utilisation des immunoglobulines polyvalentes intraveineuses dans un service de médecine interne de 1982 à 1992 : à propos de 60 cas." Bordeaux 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BOR2M138.
Full textAwal, Mohammad abdul. "Efficient cqi feedback resource utilisation for multi-user multi-carrier wireless systems." Thesis, Paris 11, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA112223/document.
Full textOrthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology has been adopted by 4th generation (a.k.a. 4G) telecommunication systems to achieve high system spectral efficiency. A crucial research issue is how to design adaptive channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback mechanisms so that the base station can use adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) techniques to adjust its data rate based on the channel condition. This problem is even more challenging in resource-limited and heterogeneous multiuser environments such as Mobile WiMAX, Long-term Evolution (LTE) networks. In this thesis, we consider CQI feedback resource allocation issue for multiuser multicarrier OFDMA systems. We exploit time-domain correlation for CQI prediction and cross-layer information to reduce feedback overhead for OFDMA systems. Our aim is find resource allocation schemes respecting the users QoS constraints.Our study begins with proposing prediction based feedback (PBF) which allows the base station to predict the CQI feedbacks based on recursive least-square (RLS) algorithm. We showed that it is useful to use channel prediction as a tool to reduce the feedback overhead and improve the uplink throughput. Then, we propose an opportunistic periodic feedback mechanism to mitigate the possible under and over estimation effects of CQI prediction. In this mechanism, we exploited the cross-layer information to enhance the performance of periodic feedback mechanisms. The opportunistic mechanism improves the system performance for high mobility cases compared to low mobility cases.For OFDMA systems with limited feedback resource, we propose an integrated cross-layer framework of feedback resource allocation and prediction (FEREP). The proposed framework, implemented at the BS side, is composed of three modules. The feedback window adaptation (FWA) module dynamically tunes the feedback window size for each mobile station based on the received ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request) messages that reflect the current channel condition. The priority-based feedback scheduling (PBFS) module then performs feedback allocation by taking into account the feedback window size, the user profile and the total system feedback budget. To choose adapted modulation and coding schemes (MCS), the prediction based feedback (PBF) module performs channel prediction by using recursive least square (RLS) algorithm for the user whose channel feedback has not been granted for schedule in current frame. Through extensive simulations, the proposed framework shows significant performance gain especially under stringent feedback budget constraint.ARQ protocol receives users acknowledgement only if the user is scheduled in the downlink. The reduction in users scheduling frequency also reduces the rate of ARQ hints and degrades the performance of above contributions. In this case, it is difficult to exploit the ARQ signal to adapt the feedback window for that user. To address this issue, we propose a cross-layer dynamic CQI resource allocation (DCRA) algorithm for multiuser multicarrier OFDMA systems. DCRA uses two modes for feedback window estimation. The first one is an off-line mode based on empirical studies to derive optimal average feedback window based on user application and mobility profile. Our experimental analysis shows that the feedback window can be averaged according to users service class and their mobility profile for a given cell environment. DCRA performs a realtime dynamic window adaptation if sufficient cross-layer hints are available from ARQ signaling. DCRA increases uplink resource by reducing feedback overhead without degrading downlink throughout significantly compared to deterministic feedback scheduling (DFS) and opportunistic feedback scheduling (OFS). From the users perspective, DCRA improves QoS constraints like packet loss rate and saves users power due to feedback reduction
Rentsch, C. T. "Point-of-contact interactive record linkage between demographic surveillance and health facilities to measure patterns of HIV service utilisation in Tanzania." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2018. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/4650292/.
Full textMouhamed, Souad. "Dévelopement et évaluation d'un logiciel d'imagerie médicale, implante sur une station de travail, pour une utilisation dans un service de pneumologie." Lyon, INSA, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994ISAL0090.
Full textIn a hospital, the tasks of information retrieval and image manipulations are generally manual. Physicians spend an important part of their work to search and handle of medical information. The integration and the adaptation of a workstation to different tasks of the clinician appear as a good. Solution. The automatisation of these tasks open new perspectives to physicians such as image processing. This study is devoted to the design and the realization of a software allowing interactive visualization and processing of multi modalities medical images. This software is implemented on a workstation which is intended to be integrated in a PACS. Ours goals in the conception have primarily been to respect the methodology and the needs of the clinicians. Thus, the software provides functionalities for selection, visualization, and processing the images in order to help the clinician to establish his diagnosis. We used a functional decomposition method which lead to a division of the software in modules. This modules are defined from the decomposition of the working method of the clinician, and are independent from each others. The user interface which constitutes a privileged connection between the user and the system has been developed with particular attention. Due to his conviviality and its ergonomy, the software is us able by non-computer-oriented users. The evaluation of the software by medical experts on the hospital site has confirmed the call of the physicians for this type of tool, and has emphasized their motivation for working with such a software
Nguyen, Bich Lien. "Expérience de soins de patients aînés atteints de cancer à l’urgence." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/8182.
Full textAbstract: Introduction: Older cancer patients are known to have specific unmet needs due to the complexity of their health care, leading them to use emergency services. However, it is known that emergency rooms are not well-suited to the needs of the elderly. Few studies have focused on the health care experience of older cancer patients and even less so in the context of emergency room (ER) visits. Purpose: This study aims to better understand the experience of older cancer patients in the context of ER visits for unexpected health deterioration related to cancer. We sought to: 1) establish the profile of patients aged 70 years and older who made ER visits for problems related to their cancer in the 12 months preceding the study; 2) identify the reasons and factors that motivate older patients with cancer to make ER visits; 3) identify coping strategies used by older cancer patients prior to ER visits; and 4) describe the health care experience of older cancer patients in the context of ER visits. Methods: A concurrent mixed-method design was used. Descriptive analysis of administrative databases was first conducted to document the socio-demographic, clinical, and service utilization profile of elderly cancer patients aged 70 years and older who visited the ER of a hospital in Québec, Canada (n = 792, Objectives 1-2). Semi-structured interviews were subsequently conducted (n = 11) and then analysed using in-depth content analysis (Objectives 2, 3, & 4). Results: The sample of 792 older cancer patients made a total of 1,572 ER visits. The most frequent medical reasons for ER visits were respiratory (15.8%) and digestive (13.4%) concerns, and cardiovascular conditions (8.2%). Content analysis of the qualitative data suggested that older cancer patients made most of the ER visits when experiencing high levels of anxiety, when other cancer care services were unavailable, or because of a serious life-threatening health condition. Patients were able to use a variety of coping strategies to deal with health issues. Furthermore, the care process is experienced uniquely for each individual. Conclusion: This study describes the health care experience of older cancer patients in the context of ER visits and suggests areas of improvement both outside of and within emergency services.
Koopu, Pauline Irihaere, and n/a. "Kia pakari mai nga niho : oral health outcomes, self-report oral health measures and oral health service utilisation among Maori and non-Maori." University of Otago. School of Dentistry, 2005. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070502.152634.
Full textLefebvre-Poirette, Armelle. "Utilisation des herbes médicinales dans les hépatopathies chroniques : étude prospective chez 411 patients vus consécutivement en consultation dans le service d'Hépatogastroentérologie de Montpellier." Montpellier 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000MON11141.
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