STUDY DESIGN A retrospective cohort. OBJECTIVE To describe physical therapy utilization following primary care consultation for low back pain (LBP) and evaluate associations between the timing and content of physical therapy and subsequent health care utilization and costs. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Primary care management of LBP is highly variable and the implications for subsequent costs...

The clinical management of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patients involves successful medical and psychosocial care to reduce mortality and morbidity. Desirable quality of life (QoL) and psychosocial outcomes for ICD patients are achievable for a majority of ICD patients. Patient critical events, such as ICD shocks or ICD recalls, may occur that can dramatically alter the course ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to learn about (a) adult physical rehabilitation patients' perceptions of their involvement in the treatment planning process (goal setting, treatment planning, outcome evaluation), (b) their valuation of occupational therapy, and (c) how they would describe their interpersonal relationships with their occupational therapists. METHOD Fifteen subjects w...

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Decision-making, care planning and adaptation of treatment are important aspects of the work of clinicians, that can clearly benefit from IT support. Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) languages provide formalisms for specifying knowledge related to such tasks, such as decision criteria and time-oriented aspects of the patient treatment. In these CPG languages, little research has been directed...

OBJECTIVE To investigate a method of using patient-held records to collect contraception data in Malawi, that could be used to explore contraceptive discontinuation and method switching. METHODS In 2012, all 7393 women aged 15 to 49 years living in the area covered by the Karonga demographic surveillance site were offered a family planning card, which was attached to the woman's health passpo...

BACKGROUND Service user (patient) involvement in care planning is a principle enshrined by mental health policy yet often attracts criticism from patients and carers in practice. AIMS To examine how user-involved care planning is operationalised within mental health services and to establish where, how and why challenges to service user involvement occur. METHOD Systematic evidence synthesi...

ABSTRACT Ethical issues can arise when planning for direct patient care surgical missions. Based on the lessons learned from USNS COMFORT Deployment 2019, authors present concise considerations and recommendations future hospital ship mission planning.