Pediatric Obesity

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra G. Hassink
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Family Intervention ◽  
Growth Charts ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health Supervision ◽  
User Friendly

Significantly revised and updated, the new 2nd edition of this popular, user-friendly guide offers the latest tools and practice recommendations from the AAP needed to tackle childhood obesity. The new 2nd edition brings you the latest point-of-care recommendations and ready-to-use tools including - Step-by-step health supervision visit guidance spanning birth through youhg adulthood - Numerous real-life case studies illustrating family intervention strategies - Newly expanded, easy-to-use format - New chapter titled, "Before Birth: Maternal Health" - Patient education handouts, self-assessment forms, and counseling for pediatric patients and families - Coding fact sheets for obesity-related health care services and template letter for handling carrier denials - Growth charts for boys and girls including the new WHO growth charts - And more!

scholarly journals In defense of undeservedly accused and offended medical doctors: “Medical Doctor’s Rights”, а 3rd edition review

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-399
Author(s):  
A. S. Shkoda ◽  
D. V. Blinov ◽  
A. D. Makatsariya
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Book Medical ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Mean Time

Currently, a number of court hearings regarding potential crimes in delivering health-care services have been exponentially increased. Some of them receive publicity and launch public debates, but many more of those stay beyond the information field. A number of medical doctors are targeted in the investigation as defendants and sentence to actual jail time. Numerous medical workers envisioning a threat to their professional carrier, and even freedom, may now avoid of risky manipulations and interventions, which may eventually negatively affect patient’s prognosis. In such situation, increasing awareness about rights of medical workers acquires special relevance. In the mean time, professional publications dedicated to this topic are sharply demanded that might be useful and written in plain Russian. Among them, it may be highlighted a book “Medical Doctor’s Rights”, by A.A. Ponkina and I.V. Ponkin thoroughly elucidating professional rights and providing tools necessary for their defense. Although we believe that it’s scarcely describes causes, real-life cases it is excusable for this otherwise brilliant book. We recommend it for careful examination both for law enforcement officers involved in such lawsuits and a wide audience of healthcare workers as well as medical students.

BMJ Best Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Jamie Saragossi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Drug Information ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
End User ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Clinical Topic

BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based point of care tool that helps support clinical decisions by providing the latest and highest quality research available to clinicians. The target audience for this resource is anyone delivering health care services. Currently, BMJ Best Practice is available as an institutional subscription in the United States. The resource includes clinical summaries based on the latest evidence, drug information, clinical calculators, evidence-based tool kits, and patient leaflets. The content provided goes through a rigorous editorial process by expert reviewers who have been required to disclose any financial conflicts. This process can however be relatively time consuming therefore updates that do not pose an immediate harm to patient care could potentially take anywhere from 1 to 3 months to be reflected in the clinical topic overviews. Overall, the tools and content provided on the platform are reliable and easy to navigate for the end user.

Pharmacist’s Demand for Optimal Primary Care Service Delivery in a Community Pharmacy: The OPTiPharm Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 1069-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Munger ◽  
Michael Walsh ◽  
Jon Godin ◽  
Michael Feehan
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Services ◽  
Pharmacy Setting

Background: The US population continues to expand providing the need for primary health care services. Community pharmacies integrated with medicine may provide greater access while providing high quality care. Objective: To gauge pharmacists’ demand for primary health care services delivered through community pharmacies. Methods: An online survey was administered to determine community pharmacists’ preferences for varying primary care services that could be offered in the community pharmacy setting. A Discrete Choice Experiment was employed to show pharmacists competing scenarios with varied primary care service offerings in the community pharmacy setting. Attributes evaluated were operation hours, service provider, medical records, service logistics, physical examinations, point-of-care diagnostic testing, preventative care, and drug prescribing. Respondents chose the scenario most likely to induce switching employment from base pharmacy to one providing advanced services. Results: The optimal service delivery model from 291 community pharmacists comprised: inclusion of patient prescriptions and health information into the patient’s medical record; provision of point of care testing and vital sign, including blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate, and blood sugar and cholesterol measurement; and pharmacists prescribing (under physician oversight). Pharmacists were 4 times more likely to switch employment from their current pharmacy to their choice for advanced pharmacy services. Pharmacist demand was highest among those with a PharmD, less experience, working >40 hours per week, and in rural areas. Conclusions: This study provides empirical support for the model of pharmacists playing a greater role in the provision of primary care health services through community pharmacy settings.

scholarly journals Wireless Sensor Network to Support Home Care in Telemedicine Applications

2008 ◽  
pp. 1407-1411
Author(s):  
Silvia Jiménez-Fernández ◽  
Antonio Cobo-Sánchez-de-Rojas ◽  
Álvaro Araujo-Pinto ◽  
Pedro Malagón ◽  
Octavio Nieto-Taladriz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The World ◽  
New Models

The care of patients suffering from chronic diseases is a growing source of expense for health care services around the world. The implementation of new models for patients’ treatment and follow-up needs to be faced in order to increase patients’ quality of life, and to reduce the costs associated. In this article, we propose a point-of-care for home care scenarios that is based on the remote monitoring of biomedical parameters.

scholarly journals Living large: the experiences of large-bodied women when accessing general practice services

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Russell ◽  
Jenny Carryer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Verbal Insults

INTRODUCTION: Numerous studies report high levels of stigma and discrimination experienced by obese/overweight women within the health care system and society at large. Despite general practice being the most utilised point of access for health care services, there is very little international or national exploration of the experiences of large-bodied women (LBW) accessing these services. The aim of this study was to explore LBW’s experiences of accessing general practice services in New Zealand. METHODS: This is a qualitative, descriptive, feminist study. Local advertising for participants resulted in eight self-identified, large-bodied women being interviewed. A post-structural feminist lens was applied to the data during thematic analysis. FINDINGS: The women in this study provided examples of verbal insults, inappropriate humour, negative body language, unmet health care needs and breaches of dignity from health care providers in general practice. Seven themes were identified: early experiences of body perception, confronting social stereotypes, contending with feminine beauty ideals, perceptions of health, pursuing health, respecting the whole person, and feeling safe to access care. CONCLUSION: Pressure for body size vigilance has, in effect, excluded the women in this study from the very locations of health that they are ‘encouraged’ to attend – including socialising and exercising in public, screening opportunities that require bodily exposure, and accessing first point of care health services. KEYWORDS: General practice; obesity; primary health care; social stigma; women

scholarly journals Block Chain Based Internet of Medical Things for Uninterrupted, Ubiquitous, User-Friendly, Unflappable, Unblemished, Unlimited Health Care Services (BC IoMT U6 HCS)

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 216856-216872
Author(s):  
J. Indumathi ◽  
Achyut Shankar ◽  
Muhammad Rukunuddin Ghalib ◽  
J. Gitanjali ◽  
Qiaozhi Hua ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Internet Of Medical Things ◽  
User Friendly

Disparities in Health Supervision for Children With Down Syndrome

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (14) ◽  
pp. 1319-1327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Williams ◽  
David Wargowski ◽  
Jens Eickhoff ◽  
Ellen Wald
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Blood Count ◽  
Complete Blood Count ◽  
Eye Disease ◽  
Children With Down Syndrome ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health Supervision ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Spine Radiographs

Increasing evidence suggests children with Down syndrome do not receive recommended health care services. We retrospectively assessed adherence to the 2001 American Academy of Pediatrics health supervision guidelines for 124 children with Down syndrome. Cervical spine radiographs were completed for 94% of children, often preoperatively. Adherence to complete blood count recommendations was 55% (95% CI 44% to 66%); lower for males ( P = .01) and children with private medical insurance ( P = .04). Adherence to thyroid function recommendations was 61% (95% CI 54% to 67%); higher for children seen by a pediatrician ( P = .002) and with known thyroid disease ( P < .0001). Adherence to audiology and ophthalmology recommendations was 33% (95% CI 27% to 40%) and 43% (95% CI 37% to 50%), respectively. Adherence rates were higher for children referred to an otolaryngologist ( P = .0002) and with known eye disease ( P < .0001). Future efforts should identify barriers to care and improve adherence to recommended screening.

scholarly journals Adaptive Machine Learning Chatbot for Code-Mix Language (English and Hindi)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 3566-3572
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Health Care ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
General Information ◽  
System Efficiency ◽  
Care Services ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Self Learning

The humanoid assistant system can be described as the system resembling or imitating the human behaviour. These systems can be called as chatbots. There are a large number of conventional scripted types of chatbots. The problem with these chatbots is that they provide a monotonous type of communication i.e. they provide the user with a predefined set of options for any of its query. This scripted nature limits the scope of the chatbot systems, to provide smart and effective services to the users. This problem restricts the system efficiency. Efforts are being made to improve the scripted nature of chatbots and enable them to converse in a manner similar to the conversation between two humans. This makes the system more user-friendly, and provides better solutions to them. Chatbots providing health care services imitate the conversation between the doctor and the patients to give them general information about diseases, remedies, precautions, etc. and also provides a prediction of the diseases depending upon the symptoms provided by the user. Here, the chatbot behaves as a virtual doctor. This can be achieved by incorporating NLU, ML and NLG techniques in the system. Here, in this paper, we have briefed about the chatbot system architecture and adaptive self-learning algorithm for providing services in healthcare domain

Adoption of new health care services in Norway (1993–1997): specialists’ self-assessment according to national criteria for priority setting

Health Policy ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Frithjof Norheim ◽  
Øivind Ekeberg ◽  
Stein A. Evensen ◽  
Marit Halvorsen ◽  
Knut Kvernebo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Care Services
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