Interaction between Family Members and Health Care Providers in an Acute Care Setting in Finland

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Päivi Åstedt-Kurki ◽  
Eija Paavilainen ◽  
Tarja Tammentie ◽  
Marita Paunonen-Ilmonen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Acute Care Setting ◽  
Care Providers

Acute Care Pharmacy Practice: A Perspective for Pharmacy Students, Residents, and Other Health-Care Providers

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-355
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Dunn ◽  
Jonathan C. Cho ◽  
Brittany L. Parmentier
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Acute Care Setting ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Medication Therapy

Purpose: To describe the acute care setting with a specific focus on acute care pharmacy practices. Summary Acute care is the sector of health care where time-sensitive episodes of illness are managed. Acute care pharmacy practice includes both hospital and clinical pharmacists serving, in a variety of domains, as medication experts and authority on patient-centered medication therapy. Pharmacists serving in this area can have a beneficial impact on patient care and the health-care system. Conclusion: The demand for acute care services is likely to grow as the population continues to grow and age. Pharmacists are key members of interdisciplinary teams in the acute care setting.

Weight Bias and Psychosocial Implications for Acute Care of Patients With Obesity

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Smigelski-Theiss ◽  
Malisa Gampong ◽  
Jill Kurasaki
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Weight Bias ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Optimal Care ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Appropriate Care

Obesity is a complex medical condition that has psychosocial and physiological implications for those suffering from the disease. Factors contributing to obesity such as depression, childhood experiences, and the physical environment should be recognized and addressed. Weight bias and stigmatization by health care providers and bedside clinicians negatively affect patients with obesity, hindering those patients from receiving appropriate care. To provide optimal care of patients with obesity or adiposity, health care providers must understand the physiological needs and requirements of this population while recognizing and addressing their own biases. The authors describe psychosocial and environmental factors that contribute to obesity, discuss health care providers’ weight biases, and highlight implications for acute care of patients suffering from obesity.

scholarly journals Perspectives of patients, family members, and health care providers on late diagnosis of breast cancer in Ethiopia: A qualitative study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. e0220769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alem Gebremariam ◽  
Adamu Addissie ◽  
Alemayehu Worku ◽  
Mathewos Assefa ◽  
Eva Johanna Kantelhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Late Diagnosis ◽  
Care Providers

Improving the final year of life at the institutional level: Quality dying initiative (QDI).

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (31_suppl) ◽  
pp. 124-124
Author(s):  
Jeff Myers ◽  
Tracey DasGupta
Keyword(s):  
Acute Care ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Acute Care Setting ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
Care Of The Dying

124 Background: For a tertiary academic health sciences and comprehensive cancer centre, care of the dying is a significant element of the institution’s overall patient and family care experience. The aim for this large-scale quality improvement project was to improve the quality of the experience for a patient in the final year of life and their family members. Methods: This is descriptive study involves one institution and the characterization of three distinct patient populations: A - Imminently dying patients for whom care goals have been clarified to be comfort, B - Patients for whom death “this admission” would not be a surprise and C - Among patients being discharged, death “within the next year” would not be a surprise, linking in the outpatient cancer care setting. Results: On average 19 deaths per week are in some way expected for the institution’s acute care setting. Phase 1 of the QDI included a review of evidence and best practices in care of the dying as well as comprehensive plans for both organizational engagement and communications. Phase 2 of the QDI (i.e. “Implementation Phase”) involved interventions for each patient population. A corporate-wide “Comfort Strategy” was developed to address Population A. Components include standardized order sets, standardized interprofessional “Comfort Assessment and Documentation”, the palliative care team’s “Coaching Consult”, a “Family Member Education” process and an evaluation plan that includes an experience survey routinely sent to family members following a patient’s death. The intervention was piloted on and subsequently rolled out to all inpatient oncology units. Interventions for Population B and C are the triggering of Goals of Care and Advance Care Plan discussions respectively. Key metrics have been identified for all three patient populations and are based on care elements considered important by dying patients and their family members. These now comprise a dashboard, which has been endorsed for roll out to all patient care units in the acute care setting. Conclusions: A quality framework can be effectively applied for the institutional context of developing an approach to improving the final year of life for a cancer patient.

scholarly journals Design and Development of Smoking Cessation Apps Based on Smokers’ and Providers’ Perspectives in China: Survey Study (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junfang Xu ◽  
Jonathan Bricker ◽  
Xiaoxing Fu ◽  
Chunyan Su ◽  
Peicheng Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Privacy And Security

BACKGROUND Although there are more than 60 smartphone apps for smoking cessation in China, many of them do not include the content and features that health care professionals and smokers prefer—which may make them impractical, unengaging, and ineffective. Therefore, we investigated both health care providers’ and smokers’ preferences for features of future smoking cessation apps. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate Chinese health care providers’ and smokers’ desired features of a smoking cessation app, with the goal of providing design recommendations for app designers and researchers. METHODS Both Chinese smokers who own smartphones (n=357) and Chinese health care providers (n=224) responded to a survey collecting data on their sociodemographic characteristics and opinions on the importance of 20 smoking cessation app design features studied in previous US research. RESULTS Chinese health care providers expressed strong support of smoking cessation apps on a number of attitude indicators (range 153/224, 68.3% to 204/224, 91.1%). They rated nearly all (18/20) features as very or extremely important (range 52.2%-83.4%) and rated nearly all features (17/20) as more important than the smokers did. More than 60% of smokers rated the following 4 features as very or extremely important: allow sharing the process of smoking cessation with family members and friends (216/319, 67.7%), helping smokers track their progress (such as the amount of smoking per day; 213/319, 66.8%), helping with the side effects of medications and nicotine withdrawal symptoms (201/319, 63.0%), and adapting to ongoing needs and interests of smokers (194/319, 60.8%). Contrary to a similar study of US smokers and health care providers, Chinese smokers and providers rated reputation and ability to communicate with family members and friends as important features, whereas Chinese smokers rated privacy and security as less important. CONCLUSIONS The design of future smoking cessation and health behavior change apps should consider perspectives of both providers and smokers as well as the role of culture.

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