PURPOSE A Web-based education/support intervention for caregivers of stroke survivors was developed. A prospective, descriptive design was used to identify caregivers' reported reasons for stroke survivors' health care service use (i.e., health care provider and emergency department visits, hospital readmissions) during the first year after initial treatment. METHOD Caregivers were recruited ...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have suggested that emergency medical services (EMS) providers are ill-prepared in the areas of training and equipment for response to events due to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and other public health emergencies (epidemics, etc.). METHODS A nationally representative sample of basic and paramedic EMS providers in the United States was surveyed to assess wheth...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive discharge education can improve patient understanding and may reduce unnecessary rehospitalization. OBJECTIVES To understand nurse and physician communication practices around patient discharge education. SETTING University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSFMC). PARTICIPANTS Nurses, interns, and hospitalists caring for hospitalized medicine patients...

there are different approaches to business model categorization. [5] in a point of view, the e-business model patterns can be categorized to content provider, direct to customer (d2c), full-service provider, intermediary, shared infrastructure, value net integrator, virtual community, and whole of enterprise.

Interprofessional education (IPE) has grown in popularity over the years because it is effective training future health professionals and serves as engine of productivity healthcare-related research. The research team, consisting higher faculty various profession disciplines, conducted a systematic review existent IPE literature targeting both graduate under-graduate students. main purpose was ...

The paper reports a refinement of the remote evaluation method of [2], that includes synchronous groupware with audio over the Internet. The method applies ideas from contextual inquiry and participatory design for the formative evaluation of a prototype linked to a subsequent redesign process. The investigation involves the Open University – the major provider of distance education in

Health human resources planning is generally based on estimating the effects of demographic change on the supply of and requirements for healthcare services. In this article, we develop and apply an extended analytical framework that incorporates explicitly population health needs, levels of service to respond to health needs, and provider productivity as additional variables in determining the...

Cyber Defense Exercises (CDX) continue to gain appreciation in the context of information security education. Primarily conducted in academic environments, the call for CDX is beginning to breach that boundary. Existing models are challenged by cost, agility, legality, and scope. This paper presents a model that addresses these challenges through a CDX service provider model.

BACKGROUND Patient education resources are crucial to the effectiveness of prescribed pharmacotherapy. However, user interest and patient preference for these materials is lacking. Regardless of the field, nearly every article on designing mHealth apps references the lack of end-user involvement as a key flaw to sustainable design. The traditional paper-based methods of patient education are di...