The health care delivery system in the United States is transforming at a rapid pace. Several trends, including the emergence of a Connected Health care system, will require advanced nurse practitioners to have new knowledge, skills and competencies to practice in the future. This paper describes the redesign of coursework and the development of a Connected Care Framework to guide the learning ...

The available research evidence pertaining to anogenital injury in victims of sexual violence presents a very wide range of injury prevalence data. As such, it is extraordinarily challenging for health care practitioners involved in clinical forensic examination of victims of sexual violence to place their examination findings in to context. It is generally accepted that the broad range of exis...

OBJECTIVES The need for regional, cross-institutional electronic networks in health care is steadily growing to support seamless, cooperative health care. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of electronic transmission between hospitals and practitioners in a Tyrolean health care network, and to derive technical and organizational points for improvement. METHODS Between March and A...

objective: to find out the quality of anc in the upazila health complexes (phc centres) of bangladesh. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was done in purposively selected three upazilas among the clients receiving antenatal care (anc). data were collected with questionnaire cum checklist in the context of two aspects of quality issues, namely assessment of physical arrangements f...

there is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. however, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. in this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

PURPOSE To test the hypothesis that a health maintenance organization (HMO) consumer's satisfaction depends on the way his or her health plan compensates practitioners. DESIGN Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS) survey data from 1999 and 2000 were provided by the Office of Public Insurance Counsel for the state of Texas. These data were combined with the Health Plan Employer Data and ...

OBJECTIVE To develop an in-depth understanding of a shared care model from primary mental health and nutrition care practitioners with a focus on program goals, strengths, challenges and target population benefits. DESIGN Qualitative method of focus groups. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS The study involved fifty-three practitioners from the Hamilton Health Service Organization Mental Health and Nutri...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate the tension between individual and organisational responses to contemporary demands for compassionate interactions in health care. BACKGROUND Health care is often said to need more compassion among its practitioners. However, this represents a rather simplistic view of the issue, situating the problem with individual practitioners rather than focusing on the...

BACKGROUND There has been almost no research into mental health services in Eastern Europe. A pathways study is a quick and useful starting point, requiring few resources. AIMS To improve understanding of prior care-seeking and treatment of new patients seen at mental health services. METHOD Pathways diagrams were drawn showing the routes of care-seeking for 50 new patients in eight centres...