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Grover, Surbhi, Sidrah Shah, Rohini Bhatia, et al. "Development and Usability of a Smartphone Application for Tracking Oncology Patients in Gaborone, Botswana." Methods of Information in Medicine 59, no. 01 (2020): 031–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1713129.

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Abstract Background The majority of new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by 2025, and 65% of cancer deaths currently occur in LMICs. Treatment adherence, patient monitoring, and follow-up are essential to cancer care but are often not possible in these settings. Out Patient (OP) Care, a smartphone application (app) developed to fill this gap, texts appointment reminders to patients and electronically stores medical records confidentially. Objectives This study aims to present the development of this app and evaluate its usability and feasibility as defined by provider and patient experiences in the context of a multidisciplinary cancer clinic in Gaborone, Botswana. Methods OP Care was piloted at a multidisciplinary team gynecologic oncology clinic in Gaborone, Botswana. The app was developed through an iterative process with feedback from clinic staff and physicians. The usability was evaluated using a cross-sectional survey. All staff members in the gynecologic oncology clinic, which typically consists of one doctor and four nurses, as well as a portion of the staff in the (Princess Marina Hospital general) oncology ward used the app. All providers using the app were surveyed, along with all patients who attended the gynecologic oncology clinic during the 3-week survey period. Staff demographics, reactions, and opinions on usability, as well as patients' reactions to the appointment reminders were collected. Agreement to the ease-of-usability statements was recorded on a 1 (not at all) to 7 (extremely so) scale. Primary outcomes were the app's usability and the feasibility of text reminders from the patient's perspective. Results Nine staff and 15 patients were surveyed. Staff included three doctors and six nurses and encompassed all of the staff in the gynecologic oncology clinic as well as a portion of the general oncology ward. All surveyed staff owned a smartphone and used a computer at home. Most (78%) staff did not feel that OP Care would increase their work burden and were willing to use the app if implemented permanently (median: 6; interquartile range [IQR]: 1). Seventeen out of the nineteen usability questions, such as “I feel comfortable using this system,” scored a median of 6, corresponding to “very much so.” Patients reported that the reminder text messages were helpful (median: 6; IQR: 1) and preferred the text reminders to be in Setswana (median: 7; IQR: 1). Conclusion High usability scores indicate that the app can be scaled up to usage in this clinic and others. Although patients appreciate OP Care, the option for call and text reminders in Setswana is indicated.
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Shah, Sidrah, Barati Monare, Sandra Urusaro, et al. "Usability and Effectiveness of a Smartphone Application for Tracking Oncology Patients in Gaborone, Botswana." Journal of Global Oncology 5, Supplement_1 (2019): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.19.20000.

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PURPOSE Most cancer diagnoses are expected to be in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by 2025, and 65% of cancer deaths occur in LMICs. Treatment adherence and patient monitoring are essential to cancer care but are often not possible in LMICs. OP Care, a smartphone application developed to fill this gap, stores medical records virtually and texts appointment reminders to patients. This study assessed its usability and effectiveness. METHODS OP Care was piloted at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana. The study was a cross-sectional study using surveys. All providers using the application were surveyed, along with all patients who were previously enrolled in the application and attended the gynecologic oncology clinic during the 3-week survey period. Staff demographics, reaction, opinions on usability, and patients’ reactions to appointment reminders were collected. Answers were recorded on a 1 (not at all) to 7 (extremely so) scale. Primary outcomes were the application’s usability and the effectiveness of the text reminders. The University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board and the Ministry of Health and Wellness in Botswana gave approval for the study. Patients provided written consent before enrollment. RESULTS Nine staff and 15 patients were surveyed. Staff included three doctors and six nurses, all of whom own a smartphone and use a computer at home. Most staff (78%) did not feel OP Care would increase their work burden and were willing to use the application if implemented permanently (median response, 6; interquartile range [IQR], 1). Most usability questions (17 of 19), such as “I feel comfortable using this system,” scored a median of 6. Most patients believed that the reminder text messages were helpful (median, 6; IQR, 1) but wanted the text reminders to be in the Setswana language (median, 7; IQR, 1). CONCLUSION High usability scores indicate the application is adaptable to other clinics. Although patients appreciate OP Care, the option for call and text reminders in Setswana is indicated. A potential limitation is that patients for whom the appointment reminders were not helpful were not necessarily included, because only patients in the clinic were surveyed. Strengths were inclusion of all involved staff, uniformity in survey administration, and inclusion of numerical analysis.
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Molefi, Tsholofelo. "Development of an Accident and Emergency Triage Mobile App Using Open Data Kit." Iproceedings 5, no. 1 (2019): e15248. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15248.

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Background The process of triaging is performed as an effective solution to balance limited resources against high patient volumes, based on an assessment of the patient’s medical condition and the application of an established patient categorization protocol. In Princess Marina Hospital (PMH), a national referral government hospital in the capital city of Botswana, the Princess Marina Hospital Accident and Emergency Centre Triage Scale (PATS) has been in use since 2010. Because the rules of these triage scales are very well defined, these protocols have been shown to be amenable to translation into computer algorithms. Thus, clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) that can assist with information management to support clinicians’ decision-making abilities can be developed, leading to improved healthcare quality and patient safety. Objective This study aims to determine the feasibility of development of a mobile triage app based on the adult PATS using Open Data kit (ODK) open source software to be used as a CDSS on smartphones and tablet computers for correct patient categorization. Methods A user-centered design approach was used in designing the app, with participants recruited from the staff at the Accident and Emergency Department (A&E) at PMH. Forty clinical vignettes were used in the evaluation of the performance of the app as compared to the paper-based system currently in use with the emergency physician at PMH providing the gold standard categorization of these vignettes. Usability testing was also performed. Results The app scored 90% (n=36) of the vignettes correctly, as compared to the paper-based system which scored 82.5% (n=33) of the vignettes correctly. Both systems achieved an over-triage score of 7.5% with an equal number of vignettes over-triaged (n=3). The results of the chi-square test indicate that the difference in triage scores between the paper-based system and the mobile app is statistically significant at P=.001 in favour of the ODK app. An overall positive outcome was also achieved in the usability test with ease of use and speed of triage determined to be the most recurring themes in the user feedback survey. While the app does not require an internet connection for triaging patients, a reliable wireless internet connection is required to upload data to the server for viewing by medical officers and physicians in real time, and this can be provided by the hospital as part of the Botswana government eHealth strategy. Additionally, the app developed in this research allows for data collection up to the point of triage categorization, meaning that a separate form would be required for capturing the rest of the information on the PMH A&E triage form. Conclusions The triage app developed in this research was found to determine the triage category of patient vignettes more accurately than the traditional paper-based system based on PATS triage guidelines with good results obtained in usability testing. Future work includes use of the app developed in this research in a live setting involving real patients in the A&E in PMH.
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Luyirika, E., and F. Kiyange. "A Regional Palliative Care Entity Working With a Host Government to Facilitate Exchange Visits From Across Africa to Improve Access to Controlled Medicines for Cancer Patients." Journal of Global Oncology 4, Supplement 2 (2018): 164s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.17300.

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Background and context: The African Palliative Care Association (APCA) is a pan-African palliative care organization hosted in Uganda but supporting initiatives to integrate palliative care into national health systems across Africa. Uganda hosts one of the oldest cancer units in Africa and also reconstitutes its own oral liquid morphine to reduce barriers and cost of access to pain control for patients. Aim: The aim of this effort is to expose government officials and other NGOs from other African countries to best practices in oral morphine manufacture, distribution and access to controlled medicines for pain control in cancer and other conditions with a view to benchmark and establish similar or better systems. Strategy/Tactics: APCA working with its funders in consultation with the Ugandan Ministry of Health and Hospice Africa Uganda, facilitates other African ministries of health delegations to conduct study visits in Uganda to benchmark the oral morphine reconstitution, the supply chain mechanisms for its distribution to patients in both public and private hospitals and at home. Program/Policy process: APCA identifies countries with morphine access challenges and makes arrangements for key personnel in those countries in ministries of health, medicines control authority, central medicines stores and national palliative care associations where they exist to spend a study period in Uganda. While in Uganda, the delegations visit the oral morphine manufacturing facility, Hospice Africa Uganda, the Ministry of Health, national medical stores, National Drug Authority, joint medical stores and some of the palliative care providers and training facilities. Once the period with the various stakeholders in the country is completed, the visiting teams draw up plans for implementation and identify required technical assistance from APCA. The costing and sources of funding are identified including contribution from the government in need and then activities are implemented. Outcomes: As a result of this South-to-South approach, Uganda has hosted delegations from 14 African countries. At one instance, it involved the Minister Of Health from Swaziland heading a delegation to Uganda while others sent other high level delegates to the peer learning and bench marking. All these countries have taken steps to establish access to oral liquid morphine as well as policy and capacity building activities for their staff. Some of the countries like Malawi and Swaziland are already having morphine reconstitution and national palliative care policies while others such as Rwanda and Botswana are in the process of changing to the same system. Cancer and palliative care related activities are also being implemented in some of countries. Some countries have graduated to host others like Uganda does. What was learned: The South-to-South learning and bench marking visits are very practical in Africa and have triggered palliative care initiatives at national level.
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Leatt, Peggy, Keith O'Rourke, Bruce Fried, and Raisa Deber. "Regulatory Intensity, Hospital Size and the Formalization of Medical Staff Organization in Hospitals." Health Services Management Research 5, no. 2 (1992): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095148489200500205.

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Using a theory of organizational response to regulation, this study examined the effects of regulatory intensity and hospital size on the formalization of medical staff organization in Canadian hospitals. The general hypothesis was that, in provinces with greater regulatory intensity, hospitals would exhibit greater formalization of medical staff, and greater involvement of physicians in hospital governance and management; larger hospitals would have greater formalization of medical staff than smaller hospitals. Data from 574 hospitals indicated that both hospital size and provincial regulatory intensity were important factors predictive of the overall formalization of medical staff organization. Depending upon the provincial location, hospitals have developed different patterns of formalizing their medical staff structures.
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&NA;. "Most Medical Errors in Hospitals Unreported by Staff." Advances in Neonatal Care 9, no. 5 (2009): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.anc.0000361181.79826.52.

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Kotelevets, Elena P., V. A. Kiryushin, N. I. Prohorov, and P. I. Melnichenko. "ADAPTIVE ABILITIES OF THE MEDICAL STAFF OF MATERNITY HOSPITALS." Hygiene and sanitation 99, no. 1 (2020): 56–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.33029/0016-9900-2020-99-1-56-62.

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Introduction. The aim is scientific planning of preventive measures based on the assessment of adaptive capabilities of the organism of medical personnel of maternity institutions in the dynamics of the work shift. Material and methods. With cardiointervalogram variation of the studied indices of the cardiovascular and autonomous nervous system in obstetricians-gynecologists, neonatologists, nurses - midwives, nurses - anesthetists, ward nurses of perinatal centers and maternity hospitals in cities of Ryazan, Smolensk, Lipetsk, and Kolomna at the beginning and at the end of the work shifts. Results. The analysis of heart rate variability revealed significant statistical differences in a number of indices of the spectral region (the decline in values of sympatho-parasympathetic balance (LF/HF), the amplitude of very low-frequency waves (LFW), increase in the total power (TP), as well as an increase in the index of activity of regulatory systems (IARS) (p<0.05), established the relationship between the IARS at the end of the shift and the intensity of the labor process of obstetricians-gynecologists of perinatal centers, nurses-anesthetists, and midwives of perinatal centers. Conclusion. The revealed direct correlation between the IARS at the end of the work shift and the intensity of the labor process of obstetricians-gynecologists of perinatal centers, medical nurses-anesthetists, and midwives of perinatal centers confirms the results of hygienic studies of the labor process intensity and allows planning preventive measures.
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Sher, Leo. "Teaching medical staff in general hospitals about suicide prevention." Journal of the Formosan Medical Association 110, no. 10 (2011): 664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfma.2011.08.011.

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Kebaetse, Maikutlo, Gaonyadiwe George Mokone, Ludo Badlangana, and Loeto Mazhani. "Academic staff recruitment and retention challenges at the University of Botswana medical school." South African Medical Journal 106, no. 7 (2016): 730. http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/samj.2016.v106i7.10482.

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Torki, Sedighe, Susan Bahrami, Elahe Khorasani, and Sakineh Saghaiyannejad. "Job characteristic perception in medical record staff of training hospitals." International Journal of Educational and Psychological Researches 1, no. 3 (2015): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2395-2296.158327.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Hospitals – Medical staff – Botswana"

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Woods, Bernadette M. "Assessment of staff attitudes to patient safety." View thesis, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/46693.

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Thesis (M.N. (Hons))--University of Western Sydney, 2004.<br>A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Social and Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Nursing (Honours). Includes bibliographical references and appendices.
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Keorekile, Opelo. "Occupational health hazards encountered by nurses at Letsholathebe II memorial hospital in Maun, Botswana." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1613.

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Thesis (MPH.) -- University of Limpopo, 2015<br>Nurses are an integral component of the health care delivery system and they encounter occupational health problems classified as biological, chemical, physical, and psychosocial hazards. Nurses also face health hazards such as Hepatitis B, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, tuberculosis, cytotoxic drugs, anesthetic agents, needle stick injury, back pain, and stress. At Letsholathebe II Memorial Hospital in Maun, nurses and other health professionals face occupational health and safety risks at the workplace. Aim and Objectives The aim of the study was to identify the occupational health hazards encountered by nurses at Letsholathebe II Memorial Hospital in Maun, Botswana. The objectives were to identify occupational health hazards at Letsholathebe II Memorial Hospital; determine organic and inorganic disorders caused by occupational health hazards; determine coping mechanisms of nurses towards occupational health hazards and the compliance of nurses to written protocols that address occupational health hazards. Research Method and Design A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional method was adopted. The population comprised 200 nurses employed at Letsholathebe II Memorial Hospital. Simple random sampling was used to select 132 nurses who participated in the study. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Results The study revealed health hazards namely; back aches, frequent headaches, and persistent tiredness; mercury, solvents and anaesthetic gases; HIV, streptococcus, staphylococcus, Hepatitis B and measles. Nurses also reported fatigue, loss of sleep due to stress, anxiety and persistent tiredness. Conclusion The study concluded that nurses at Letsholathebe ll Memorial hospital experienced physical, chemical, biological and psychological health hazards. Recommendations The study recommends that nurses should have access to OHS information, that OHS awareness should be created at Letsholathebe II Memorial Hospital.
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Benjamin, Valencia. "Experiences of professional nurses with regard to accessing information at the point-of-care via mobile-computing devices at a public hospital." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020193.

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Mobile computing devices are capable of changing how healthcare is delivered in the future, since they aim to merge and integrate all services into one device that is versatile, customisable, and portable. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of professional nurses with regard to accessing information at the point-of-care of the patient, in order to develop guidelines that could assist other professional nurses with implementing the mobile computing device for accessing information at the point-of-care of patients. To achieve the purpose of the study, a qualitative, explorative, descriptive, and contextual design was used to conduct this research – to gain an understanding of how the professional nurses experienced accessing information at the point-of-care via mobile computing devices. The study was conducted among the professional nurses employed at the public hospital, who were trained and provided with the mobile computing device for accessing information at the point-of-care for more than two years. In-depth interviewing was conducted to obtain the data. Data analysis was done using Tesch‘s method to make sense out of text and data. Four themes were identified, namely, the professional nurses‘ expression of various experiences regarding the training received; the need for support in implementing the mobile computing device; the accessing of information at the point-of-care as beneficial for educational purposes; and the accessing of information at the point-of-care as beneficial to patient care. Two main guidelines were developed. The study concludes with recommendations made with regard to the areas of nursing practice, education and research. Throughout the study, the researcher abided by the ethical considerations. The aspects of trustworthiness implemented in this study, included dependability, credibility, transferability and confirmability (Holloway & Wheeler, 2010:298).
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Duffy, Brianne Michelle. "Identification of stressors related to emergency department employment." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2003. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/315.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Health and Public Affairs<br>Nursing
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Kwizera, Alice Stella. "Quality of work and work life: understanding the work ethic of medical professionals in selected hospitals in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003111.

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This thesis reports a study of work ethic values, beliefs and attitudes held by medical professionals in selected hospitals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The study was in response to the public outcry about the declining work ethic and poor service delivery in South Africa’s healthcare sector. Scholarly interest in the work ethic and its role in economic development dates back to Max Weber’s classical work, which was the starting point for my study. The German economic sociologist published his seminal essay on The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in 1904/1905. Since that time, Weber’s ideas on the Protestant work ethic continue to inform and influence studies of the contemporary work ethic, which is thought to have become secularised. My study was informed by data collected in 2009 through a questionnaire survey and personal interviews. A total of 174 doctors and nurses, working in four urban, periurban and rural hospitals near East London, completed a self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire replicated the Multi-Dimensional Work Ethic Profile (MWEP) developed by Miller, Woehr and Hudspeth in 2001/2002. The instrument examines seven critical dimensions of the work ethic, namely self-reliance, morality, (foregoing) leisure, hard work, centrality of work in life, not wasting time, and delay of gratification. In addition, I conducted personal interviews in the same four hospitals with 41 hospital managers, doctors, nurses, and patients to discuss their understanding of the work ethic and its practical application. The study found that both doctors’ and nurses’ overall work ethic scores on the MWEP scale were above average. Although there was no significant difference between the overall work ethic scores of the two professions, doctors scored significantly higher than nurses on the ‘hard work’ and ‘self reliance’ dimensions of the work ethic scale. In the qualitative study, the doctors’ work ethic was rated much more highly than the nurses’ by their superiors and patients; and the work ethic of nurses in the urban hospitals was rated much lower than that of their rural colleagues. In contradiction to the idea of the secularization of the contemporary work ethic, religiosity and religious beliefs were influential in the endorsement of work ethic principles. In line with the notion that ‘happy’ workers are more productive, job and life satisfaction were found to be strong correlates of the work ethic of medical professionals.
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Mrara, Msibulele Theophilus. "An investigation of turnover and retention factors of health professional staff within the Eastern Cape Department of Health." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003875.

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Health Professionals are critical in the provision of health services, more especially when it comes to nurses who are next to the patient most of the time. It is critically important for the Eastern Cape Department of Health to ensure that skilled health professionals such as doctors, pharmacists, nurses and the like are retained and the staff turnover regarding this category of staff is appropriately managed. The difficulty to attract and retain health professionals is negatively affecting service delivery in the Eastern Cape department of Health and leaves the department with an unacceptably high vacancy rate. This often put more of a burden on to the health professionals who remain within the organization. Some of them will end up leaving the organization. There is a great shortage of health professionals in South Africa and it becomes easier for the health professionals to get employment elsewhere, particularly in the private sector which appears to have a competitive advantage as compared to the public sector. In this study, both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to gather information through the utilization of a questionnaire and interviews were conducted mainly to confirm the results obtained. The results of the study have assisted to reflect factors that could be influencing the health professionals to leave health facilities of the Eastern Cape Department of Health. The respondents were drawn from the two areas within the Health Department, and these are, Mthatha and Port Elizabeth areas. One hundred (100) questionnaires were issued to the health professionals and sixty three responded. Documents that were received from the department were helpful in determining the turnover rate. The study has revealed that the Eastern Cape Department of Health may succeed in retaining the health professionals if they can be made to feel that their job is important. It appears that health professionals would like to be given enough opportunity to perform their functions and participate in the decision making processes of the department. Some factors may be contributing to the staff turnover and these are, lack of career opportunities to develop, challenges in the workplace, conflict with the management and colleagues. It is always important for the organizations to recognize its employees by giving them space to practice their profession and create a comfortable workplace that could have an impact in influencing the employee to remain within the organization. Employee turnover can be minimized, if employees can be exposed to a healthy workplace environment that will assist if fostering happiness, and in the process, enhance their motivation. It is imperative for the Eastern Cape Department of Health to focus on the training and development of its employees in order to increase the efficiency and competitiveness. As the employees gain the necessary skills to perform their job, productivity may improve. The performance of the employees should be properly managed, and the resultant incentives and rewards must be fairly distributed. This could promote harmony in the workplace and that could help in building relationships among employees. If employees are satisfied, there is an increased chance that they will stay within the organization and it becomes difficult for other competitors to attract them. Employees must be given adequate space to participate in the decision making processes of the organization, and by doing so, their loyalty to the organization could be increased.
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Galo, Luntu. "A case study describing factors perceived to be impacting staff satisfaction amongst health care professionals at the East London Hospital complex." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003905.

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This thesis was born from a concern the researcher had with regard to negative reports in the media emanating from 4 babies that died at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital Peadiatric ICU unit due to power supply failure. The most significant of these negative reports was in 2007 when the Daily Dispatch ran a series of articles regarding what they termed avoidable deaths over the last 14 years. The ease with which staff communicated with the media together with the high absenteeism rate and high turnover was a cause for concern. When the researcher analysed the history of the problem, it immerged from the respondents’ responses that the rationalistion process undertaken by the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH) was a significant root cause to the problem. The literature review focused on three areas viz.: Organisational Culture, Organisational Change, Foundations of Satisfaction. This focus was used to confine the problem to a manageable project but secondly each of the aspects are interwoven. Routledge (2010) notes that culture is the reflection of the values advocated by a founder or leader by way of his/her day to day actions. This is done by the leader creating a perception or viewpoint that assists the employees to achieve the organisation’s mission, vision and goals. In any organisation change is a constant and it needs to be effectively managed. With government institutions like the East London Hospital Complex (ELHC) directives come from the top and are implemented by an unprepared and untrained leadership and management cadre and clear communication of vision and objective of the desired outcomes never happens. The aim of the research was to: describe the existing Organisational Culture present at ELHC (Perform an organisational diagnosis); describe the impact of change (rationalisation) and to analyze why there was such a high staff turnover. It is clear from the results of the survey conducted that significant dissatisfaction prevailed relating to how the institution was managed. Dissatisfaction amongst the health professionals was general but also specific to the following: leadership and management issues, fairness, remuneration and lack of resources. The recommendations therefore focused on developing management and leadership within the proposal of Dubrin’s model (2001).
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Sanders, Carolyn L. "Clinical antecedents of a medical emergency team response as predictors of ICU transfer /." Connect to full text via ProQuest. Limited to UCD Anschutz Medical Campus, 2008.

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Thesis (Ph.D. in Nursing) -- University of Colorado Denver, 2008.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-107). Free to UCD Anschutz Medical Campus. Online version available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations;
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Rutledge, M. Hannah. "Patient Family and Hospital Staff Information Needs at a Pediatric Hospital: an Analysis of Information Requests Received by the Family Resource Libraries." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801947/.

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This research explored the information needs of patient families and hospital staff at a pediatric hospital system in Dallas, Texas. Library statistics recorded in four hospital libraries from 2011 - 2013 were used to analyze the information requests from patient families and hospital staff. Crosstabulations revealed the extent to which patient families and hospital staff used the libraries to satisfy their information needs. The data showed that patient families used the libraries very differently than hospital staff. Chi-square tests for independence were performed to identify the relationships between the Classification (Patient Family, Hospital Staff) and two descriptors of information needs (Request Type, Resources Used). There were a total of 1,406 information requests analyzed. The data showed that patient families and hospital staff information requests differed greatly in the number of information requests, the type of information requested, the resources used and the time the library staff spent on the requests. Chi-square analyses revealed relationships statistically significant at the p < .05 level; however, the strength of the relationships varied.
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Ward, Gary Ray. "Training the trainer: A manual for Kaiser Permanente educators who teach employees to use computer systems." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/758.

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Books on the topic "Hospitals – Medical staff – Botswana"

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Biehl, Michael M. The medical staff: Legal issues. National Health Lawyers Association, 1990.

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O'Connell, Ann. Model medical staff bylaws & rules. 6th ed. California Healthcare Association, 2002.

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1940-, Porter Karen W., ed. Medical staff bylaws handbook. American Hospital Pub., 1987.

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Cors, William K. The medical staff leaders' practical guide. 6th ed. HCPro, 2007.

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Cors, William K. The medical staff leaders' practical guide. 6th ed. HCPro, 2007.

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1923-, Fifer William R., Wilson Toma C, and Estes Park Institute, eds. The medical staff and the modern hospital. Estes Park Institute, 1985.

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The hospital medical staff. Delmar Publishers, 1997.

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Weagly, Susan. Medical staff credentialing forms manual. 2nd ed. InterQual, 1990.

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Verschuren, Ria. Working conditions in hospitals in the European Union. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1995.

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Schoonhoven, Peter Van. Medical staff monitoring functions: Blood usage review. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, 1987.

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Rozensky, Ronald H. "Medical or professional staff membership and participation in rural hospitals." In Practicing psychology in rural settings: Hospital privileges and collaborative care. American Psychological Association, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/10246-002.

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Lande, Ragnhild E. "Expanding Library Services to Medical Staff and Students at Small and Remote Hospitals." In Libraries without Limits: Changing Needs — Changing Roles. Springer Netherlands, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4621-0_68.

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Sharma, Deevesh, Awadhesh Bhardwaj, and Monica Sharma. "Factors Affecting Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Caregiving Staff at Hospitals and Medical Organization." In Design Science and Innovation. Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9054-2_18.

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Ji, Xiangfei, Zhaosong Fang, Zhimin Zheng, and Zhaoliang Ji. "Investigation into the Adaption of PMV to Evaluation of the Medical Staff in Hospitals in Guangzhou." In Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9520-8_78.

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Qi, Baoning, Jiaxin Wang, Mingrui Ji, Shouzhu Xu, Juan Li, and Chuandao Shi. "Design of the Management System for Salary Diagnosis and Optimization of Medical Staff in Shaanxi Public Hospitals of Traditional Chinese Medicine." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2568-1_244.

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Guo, Cong, Cheng-shu Yang, Kunsong Zhang, and Ming Kuang. "Competence-Oriented Task-Based Learning Approach to Medical Dual-Role Interpreter Training." In Handbook of Research on Medical Interpreting. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9308-9.ch014.

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With the developing complexity of international communication and the development of hospitals, diversified interpreting demands, such as interpreting for conferences held by hospitals and for visiting delegations from overseas healthcare institutions, have emerged in the medical field, other than interpreting in the clinical setting. Instead of engaging a professional interpreter temporarily, many hospitals are more inclined to invite their own staff to interpret, for many reasons. The core issue is to empower the medical staff with interpreting competence. This chapter examines a case study closely to summarize and share the teaching experience for training conference-level dual-role interpreters in the medical field. The research then proposes the competence-oriented task-based learning approach and examines its effectiveness.
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Rothstein, William G. "Hospitals Affiliated with Medical Schools." In American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195041866.003.0024.

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After mid-century, university hospitals became more involved in research and the care of patients with very serious illnesses. This new orientation has created financial, teaching, and patient-care problems. In order to obtain access to more patients and patients with ordinary illnesses, medical schools affiliated with veterans’ and community hospitals. Many of these hospitals have become similar to university hospitals as a result. Medical schools experienced a serious shortage of facilities in their customary teaching hospitals after 1950. Many university hospitals had few beds or set aside many of their beds for the private patients of the faculty. Patients admitted for research purposes had serious or life-threatening diseases instead of the commonplace disorders needed for training medical students. The public hospitals affiliated with medical schools had heavy patient-care obligations that reduced their teaching and research activities. To obtain the use of more beds, medical schools affiliated with more community and public hospitals. The closeness of the affiliation has varied as a function of the ability of the medical school to appoint the hospital staff, the number of patients who could be used in teaching, and the type of students—residents and/or undergraduate medical students—who could be taught there. In 1962, 85 medical schools had 269 close or major affiliations and 180 limited affiliations with hospitals. Fifty-one of the hospitals with major affiliations were university hospitals and 100 others gave medical schools the exclusive right to appoint the hospital staffs. Dependence on university hospitals has continued to decline so that in 1975, only 60 of 107 medical schools owned 1 or more teaching hospitals, with an average of 600 total beds. All of the medical schools averaged 5.5 major affiliated hospitals, which provided an average of 2,800 beds per school. Public medical schools were more likely to own hospitals than private schools (39 of 62 public schools compared to 21 of 45 private schools), but they averaged fewer affiliated hospitals (5.1 compared to 6.0). In 1982, 419 hospitals were members of the Council of Teaching Hospitals (COTH), of which only 64 were university hospitals. Members of COTH included 84 state or municipal hospitals, 71 Veterans Administration and 3 other federal hospitals, and 261 voluntary or other nonpublic hospitals.
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Solvoll, Terje. "Mobile Communication in Hospitals." In Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9970-0.ch029.

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The work setting in hospitals is communication intensive and can lead to significant difficulties related to interruptions from co-workers. Physicians often need information fast, and any delay between the decision made and the action taken could cause medical errors. One suggested solution for this problem is to implement wireless phone systems. However, psychological theory and empirical evidence, both suggest that wireless phones have the potential of creating additional problems related to interruptions, compared to traditional paging systems. The fact that hospital workers prefer interruptive communication methods before non-interruptive methods, amplifies the risk of overloading people when phones are widely deployed. This challenge causes some hospital staff to resist the diffusion of wireless phones, and one key is how to handle the balance between increased availability, and increased interruptions. In this chapter we will present solutions based on context aware communication systems which aims to reduce interruptions.
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Solvoll, Terje. "Mobile Communication in Hospitals." In Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8516-9.ch014.

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Mobile communication for healthcare workers is a critical part of hospitals infrastructure. Many of these systems do not work well together, leading to difficulties regarding multiple communication devices with different usage area, unavailable or missing equipment, and alarm fatigue. Physicians and nurses often need information fast, and any delay between the decision and the action taken could cause medical errors. One suggested solution for this problem is to implement wireless phone systems. However, psychological theory and empirical evidence, both suggest that wireless phones have the potential of creating additional problems related to interruptions. The fact that hospital workers prefer interruptive communication methods before non-interruptive methods, amplifies the risk of overloading staff. The key is how to handle the balance between increased availability and increased interruptions. In this chapter, the authors present solutions and possibilities based on context aware communication systems that aim to reduce interruptions and thereby also alarm fatigue.
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Solvoll, Terje. "Mobile Communication in Hospitals." In Healthcare Administration. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6339-8.ch034.

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The work setting in hospitals is communication intensive and can lead to significant difficulties related to interruptions from co-workers. Physicians often need information fast, and any delay between the decision made and the action taken could cause medical errors. One suggested solution for this problem is to implement wireless phone systems. However, psychological theory and empirical evidence, both suggest that wireless phones have the potential of creating additional problems related to interruptions, compared to traditional paging systems. The fact that hospital workers prefer interruptive communication methods before non-interruptive methods, amplifies the risk of overloading people when phones are widely deployed. This challenge causes some hospital staff to resist the diffusion of wireless phones, and a key is how to handle the balance between increased availability, and increased interruptions. In this chapter, the authors present solutions based on context aware communication systems, aiming to reduce interruptions.
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Conference papers on the topic "Hospitals – Medical staff – Botswana"

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Repanovici, A., D. Cotoros, M. Haineala, C. Nemet, and E. Dinu. "Systems for Monitoring Hands Hygiene of Medical Staff in Hospitals." In 2020 International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ehb50910.2020.9280101.

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Siegmann, Silvester, and Gert Notbohm. "Noise in hospitals as a strain for the medical staff." In ICA 2013 Montreal. ASA, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4801032.

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Yalman, Sakine, and Abdulsamet Hasiloglu. "Drug distribution in hospitals real-ti̇me nurses / staff nurse development of robots." In 2015 Medical Technologies National Conference (TIPTEKNO). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tiptekno.2015.7374552.

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Luan, Yichao. "Analysis on the Emotional Labor Effect of Medical Staff in Chinese Public Tertiary Hospitals." In 1st International Symposium on Innovative Management and Economics (ISIME 2021). Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210803.051.

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Kareli, M., and N. Pitskhelauri. "0085 Cross-sectional study – the prevalence and effects of workplace violence against medical staff in three hospitals of Tbilisi, Georgia." In Injury and Violence Prevention for a Changing World: From Local to Global: SAVIR 2021 Conference Abstracts. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2021-savir.62.

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Voevodina, Svetlana, and Evgeny Barinov. "The daily load on the staff as the cause of diagnostic and medical-tactical defects in the work of ambulance." In Issues of determining the severity of harm caused to human health as a result of the impact of a biological factor. Publishing Center RIOR, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/conferencearticle_5fdcb03a50d2d2.14051834.

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The urgency of the problem is because work on the prehospital stage, especially on the ambulance, implies the difficulty of diagnosing various diseases. This is because in patients who call an ambulance, as a rule, there is a huge range of various diseases and their complications, as well as injuries. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify patterns of increase in the main diagnostic and therapeutic tactical defects in the work of ambulance in the conditions of daily workload. The materials of the study were the coupons to the accompanying sheet, since they reflect the continuity in the work of the ambulance and hospitals. Based on the obtained results, conclusions are formulated and goals for further research are indicated.
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Enayati, Moein, and Marjorie Skubic. "Respiratory Arrest Monitoring: A Non-Invasive Approach for Early Detection of Breathing Complexities in Psychiatric Patients." In 2020 Design of Medical Devices Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dmd2020-9087.

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Abstract Background: Current protocol for monitoring high-risk patients in psychiatric hospital calls for a staff member to enter each room every 15 minutes to visually ensure that each patient is still breathing. This protocol has been set up for fast intervention in the case of a patient’s self-inflicting harm. However, this procedure is disruptive to the patients and a burden for the care providers. Objective: Continuous and automated overnight monitoring of psychiatric patients for a complete cessation of breath, that eliminates the need for frequent in-person checks. Method: An IRB approved study conducted in a simulated lab environment, with a radar device placed in the ceiling above the bed. 14 volunteers simulated episodes of respiratory arrest. Results: The extracted radar signal not only tracks the episodes of complete breath cessation but also estimates the respiration rate with more than 92% accuracy, during normal breathing. Conclusion: Our proposed approach provides the means for care providers in psychiatric hospitals to ensure the patients can breathe without disturbing the patients’ sleep.
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Beuren, Ilse Maria, Cristian Baú Dal Magro, and Dirceu Rodrigues Dias. "USE OF MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS IN DECISION MAKING PROCESS IN HOSPITALS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MANAGERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE MEDICAL STAFF." In 10th CONTECSI International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management. TECSI, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5748/9788599693094-10contecsi/ps-107.

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Poigai Arunachalam, Shivaram, Mustafa Sir, Gomathi Marisamy, et al. "Optimizing Emergency Department Workflow Using Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) Data Analytics." In 2017 Design of Medical Devices Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dmd2017-3402.

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Emergency Department (ED) is a complex care delivery environment in a hospital that provides time sensitive urgent and lifesaving care [1]. Emergency medicine is an unscheduled practice and therefore providers experience extreme fluctuations in their workload. ED crowding is a major concern that affects the efficacy of the ED workflow, which often is challenged by long wait times, overuse of observation units, patients either leaving without being seen by a provider and non-availability of inpatient beds to accommodate patients after diagnosis [2]. Evaluating ED workflow is a challenging task due to its chaotic nature, with some success using time-motion studies and novel capacity management tools are nowadays becoming common in ED to address workflow related issues [3]. Several studies reveal that Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption has not resulted in significant ED workflow improvements nor reduced the cost of ED operations. Since raw EMR data does not offer operational and clinical decision making insights, advanced EMR data analytics are often sought to derive actionable intelligence from EMR data that can provide insights to improve ED workflow. Improving ED workflow has been an important topic of research because of its great potential to optimize the urgent care needed for the patients and at the same time save time and cost. Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) is a wireless automatic identification and data capture technology device that has the potential for improving safety, preventing errors, saving costs, and increasing security and therefore improving overall organizational performance. RFID technology use in healthcare has opened a new space in healthcare informatics research that provides novel data to identify workflow process pitfalls and provide new directions [4]. The potential advantages of RFID adoption in healthcare and especially in ED has been well recognized to save costs and improve care delivery [5]. However, the large upfront infrastructure costs, need for an integrated health information technology (HIT), advanced analytical tools for big data analysis emerging from RFID and skilled data scientists to tackle the data to derive actionable intelligence discourage many hospitals from adoption RFID technology despite its potential advantages. Our recent pilot study on the RFID data analytics demonstrated the feasibility of quantifying and analyzing two novel variables such as ‘patient alone’ time defined as the total time a patient spends alone without interaction with a health care staff in the ED and ‘provider time’ defined as the total time a patient spends interacting with any health care staff [6]. The study motivated a more comprehensive big data analytics of RFID data which can provide better insights into optimizing ED workflow which can improve the quality of care in the ED and also reduce cost. In this work, the authors attempt to describe the RFID adoption in the ED at the Saint Mary’s Hospital at Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, MN, a level one trauma center both for children and adults as a step towards optimizing ED workflow.
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Aziz, Ayesha, and Nashi Khan. "PERCEPTIONS PERTAINING TO STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION ABOUT DEPRESSION: A FOCUS GROUP STUDY OF PRIMARY CARE STAFF." In International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021inpact013.

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"The present study was conducted to explore the perception and views of primary care staff about Depression related Stigma and Discrimination. The Basic Qualitative Research Design was employed and an In-Depth Semi-Structured Discussion Guide consisted of 7 question was developed on the domains of Pryor and Reeder Model of Stigma and Discrimination such as Self-Stigma, Stigma by Association, Structural Stigma and Institutional Stigma, to investigate the phenomenon. Initially, Field Test and Pilot study were conducted to evaluate the relevance and effectiveness of Focus Group Discussion Guide in relation to phenomena under investigation. The suggestions were incorporated in the final Discussion Guide and Focus Group was employed as a data collection measure for the conduction of the main study. A purposive sampling was employed to selected a sample of Primary Care Staff (Psychiatrists, Medical Officers, Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatric Nurses) to elicit the meaningful information. The participants were recruited from the Department of Psychiatry of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) recognized Private and Public Sector hospitals of Lahore, having experience of 3 years or more in dealing with patients diagnosed with Depression. However, for Medical Officers, the experience was restricted to less than one year based on their rotation. To maintain equal voices in the Focus Group, 12 participants were approached (3 Psychiatrist, 3 Clinical Psychologists, 3 Medical Officers and 3 Psychiatric Nurses) but total 8 participants (2 Psychiatrists, 2 Medical Officers, 3 Clinical Psychologists And 1 Psychiatric Nurse) participated in the Focus Group. The Focus Group was conducted with the help of Assistant Moderator, for an approximate duration of 90 minutes at the setting according to the ease of the participants. Further, it was audio recorded and transcribed for the analysis. The Braun and Clarke Reflexive Thematic Analysis was diligently followed through a series of six steps such as Familiarization with the Data, Coding, Generating Initial Themes, Reviewing Themes, Defining and Naming Themes. The findings highlighted two main themes i.e., Determining Factors of Mental Health Disparity and Improving Treatment Regimen: Making Consultancy Meaningful. The first theme was centered upon three subthemes such as Lack of Mental Health Literacy, Detached Attachment and Components of Stigma and Discrimination. The second theme included Establishing Contact and Providing Psychoeducation as a subtheme. The results manifested the need for awareness-based Stigma reduction intervention for Primary Care Staff aims to provide training in Psychoeducation and normalization to reduce Depression related Stigma and Discrimination among patients diagnosed with Depression."
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W, Nedra, Laura B. Strange, Sara M. Kennedy, Katrina D. Burson, and Gina L. Kilpatrick. Completeness of Prenatal Records in Community Hospital Charts. RTI Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2018.rr.0032.1802.

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We describe the completeness of prenatal data in maternal delivery records and the prevalence of selected medical conditions and complications among patients delivering at community hospitals around Atlanta, Georgia. Medical charts for 199 maternal-infant dyads (99 infants in normal newborn nurseries and 104 infants in newborn intensive care nurseries) were identified by medical records staff at 9 hospitals and abstracted on site. Ninety-eight percent of hospital charts included prenatal records, but over 20 percent were missing results for common laboratory tests and prenatal procedures. Forty-nine percent of women had a pre-existing medical condition, 64 percent had a prenatal complication, and 63 percent had a labor or delivery complication. Missing prenatal information limits the usefulness of these records for research and may result in unnecessary tests or procedures or inappropriate medical care.
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