scholarly journals PHP169 Comparing the Hungarian Methodological Guideline for Conducting Economic Evaluation of Health Care Intervention with European Guidelines

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. A318-A319
Author(s):  
Z. Huszti ◽  
B.Z. Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Health Care Intervention ◽  
Methodological Guideline ◽  
European Guidelines ◽  
Care Intervention

“PHONE-CONNECT” - A Pilot Program Prescribing Phones to Address Digital Health Equity Needs in the COVID-19 Era (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gill Kazevman ◽  
Marck Mercado ◽  
Jennifer Hulme ◽  
Andrea Somers
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Health Care Intervention ◽  
Care Intervention

UNSTRUCTURED Vulnerable populations have been identified as having higher infection rates and poorer COVID-19 related outcomes, likely due to their inability to readily access primary care, follow public health directives and adhere to self-isolation guidelines. As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many health care services have adopted new digital solutions, relying on phone and internet connectivity. Yet, persons who are digitally inaccessible, such as those struggling with poverty or homelessness, are often unable to utilize these services. In response to this newly highlighted social disparity known as “digital health inequity”, emergency physicians at the University Health Network, Toronto, initiated a program called “PHONE CONNECT”. This novel approach attempts to improve patients’ access to health care, information and social services, as well as improve their ability to adhere to public health directives (social isolation and contact tracing). While similar programs addressing the same emerging issues have been recently described in the media, this is the first time phones are provided as a health care intervention in an emergency department. This innovative ED point-of-care intervention may have a significant impact on improving the health outcomes for vulnerable people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and even beyond it.

scholarly journals Obesity and health care interventions: Substantiating a multi-modal challenge through the lens of grounded theory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Mandlik ◽  
JG Oetzel ◽  
Djavlonbek Kadirov
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Service Provisioning ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Health Care Intervention ◽  
Care Intervention

© 2020 Australian Health Promotion Association Issue addressed: One of the biggest concerns for human health in the 21st century is the ever-increasing rate of obesity and its associated budgetary implications for publicly funded health care service provisioning. This study at the outset explores the multifaceted nature of food-related consumption choices and outcomes of obesity, and later offers suggestions to improve the existing interventional strategies to curtail the epidemic. Methods: A total of 24 participants were recruited through poster invitations placed around the greater metropolitan area of Auckland, New Zealand. Participants shared their health care intervention program experiences through in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed in keeping with traditions of constructivist grounded theory. Findings: Analysis revealed various concurrent individually acting and ecologically mediated processes which led to obesogenic outcomes as a result of social actors’ (participants) engagement in acts of (food-related) consumption practices. Conclusions: This study helps to illustrate the underlying, multifaceted processes that lead to obese individuals feeling defeated or disempowered and categorically willing, yet unable to bring about healthy changes in their lives. We hope this study will prompt health care practitioners to take a holistic approach while conceiving and deploying health care intervention programs. So what?: Current health care interventional programs are not achieving optimum solutions for those in need. All future programs need to acknowledge the roles played by an individual, as well as ecological factors, while deploying client-centric intervention solutions. Perhaps these programs are in need of a team-based approach to offer a truly “wrap-around” service provisioning strategy, rather than the traditional one-on-one consultative approaches in use at current times.

Outcomes of Ambulatory Upper Extremity Surgery Patients Discharged Home with Perineural Catheters from a Veterans Health Administration Medical Center

Pain Medicine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 2256-2262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick King ◽  
Edward R Mariano ◽  
Meghana Yajnik ◽  
Alex Kou ◽  
T Edward Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Upper Extremity ◽  
Veterans Health Administration ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Telephone Contact ◽  
Health Care Intervention ◽  
Care Intervention

Abstract Objective The feasibility and safety of managing ambulatory continuous peripheral nerve blocks (CPNB) in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients are currently unknown. We aimed to characterize the outcomes of a large VHA cohort of ambulatory upper extremity surgery patients discharged with CPNB and identify differences, if any, between catheter types. Methods With institutional review board approval, we reviewed data for consecutive patients from a single VHA hospital who had received ambulatory CPNB for upper extremity surgery from March 2011 to May 2017. The composite primary outcome was the occurrence of any catheter-related issue or additional all-cause health care intervention after discharge. Our secondary outcome was the ability to achieve regular daily telephone contact. Results Five hundred one patients formed the final sample. The incidence of any issue or health care intervention was 104/274 (38%) for infraclavicular, 58/185 (31%) for interscalene, and 14/42 (33%) for supraclavicular; these rates did not differ between groups. Higher ASA status was associated with greater odds of having any issue, whereas increasing age was slightly protective. Distance was associated with an increase in catheter-related issues (P < 0.01) but not additional health care interventions (P = 0.51). Only interscalene catheter patients (3%) reported breathing difficulty. Infraclavicular catheter patients had the most emergency room visits but rarely for CPNB issues. Consistent daily telephone contact was not achieved. Conclusions For VHA ambulatory CPNB patients, the combined incidence of a catheter-related issue or additional health care intervention was approximately one in three patients and did not differ by brachial plexus catheter type. Serious adverse events were generally uncommon.

A Theory-Based Primary Health Care Intervention for Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe ◽  
Marilyn Merritt-Gray ◽  
Colleen Varcoe ◽  
Judith Wuest
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Intervention ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Intervention ◽  
Abusive Partners
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