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Title: Preoperative Education and The Reduction of Parental Anxiety
Author: Bernardo, Sherry
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine, Health services administration
Description: Background: One of the most frequently reported emotions in children in the setting of surgery or a medical procedure is anxiety. Currently, many interventions are used to assist with the perioperative reduction in anxiety for both parent and chil...

Title: Disentangling the Complex Racial Disparities in Health among Adult Beneficiaries under Medicaid Managed Care: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Author: Sun, Chengxiu
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Health services administration, Public health--Study and teaching
Description: There are few studies of the important issue of racial and ethnic disparities in Medicaid managed care settings. This study addresses this deficiency using data collected by telephone interviews from a randomly stratified sample of adults who were...

Title: Communicative Needs of Patients who Experience Miscarriage: Understanding Healthcare Communication and Reproductive Self-efficacy
Author: Lacci-Reilly, Kandice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Communication, Health services administration
Description: Miscarriage, defined as pregnancy loss in the first 20 weeks of gestation, is a profound and individualized experience. It is estimated to occur in up to one in four pregnancies, resulting in approximately one million miscarriages annually in the ...

Title: Automated Meta-Actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments
Author: Touati, Hakim
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Health services administration
Description: Healthcare, among other domains, provides an attractive ground of work for knowledge discovery researchers. There exist several branches of health informatics and health data-mining from which we find actionable knowledge discovery is underserved....

Title: Assessing Convergence of Community Benefit Programs and Community Health Needs Among North Carolina's Tax-Exempt Hospitals
Author: Fos, Elmer
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Government policy, Health services administration
Description: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires tax-exempt hospitals to conduct Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years, formulate implementation strategies, and report yearly to the IRS and the public the progress of their work. Th...

Title: Assessment and Characterization of HIV Care Continuum in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 2013-2019
Author: Owolabi, Yakubu
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Epidemiology, Health services administration
Description: Background: The high burden of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) disease and the increasing rate of new HIV infections among some populations and jurisdictions could reflect failed prevention strategies. Despite progress in controlling the epidem...

Title: Effects of hydrocephalus on hospital use, associated costs, and access to care among children with spina bifida
Author: Radcliff, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration
Description: Objectives: This study examined hospital resource use, timeliness of surgical repair of spina bifida (SB), and geographical access to hospital care for infants and children with SB. Methods: This was a retrospective, statewide, population-based st...

Title: MENTAL HEALTH CASE MANAGERS: AN ANALYSIS OF COMPASSION FATIGUE AND WELLBEING
Author: Bilaye-Benibo, Tamunosaki
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Health services administration, Medical personnel
Description: Compassion fatigue is a phenomenon wherein employees in "helping professions" develop decreased capacity for empathy due to repeated/extended exposure to client trauma and suffering. In addition to negatively impacting relationships with their cli...

Title: Effects of Medical Home Among Children With Special Health Care Needs
Author: Willits, Kathryn
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of having access to a medical home on the use of the emergency department, primary care office visits and the number of missed school days among children with special health care needs.Analysi...

Title: EXPLORING NURSES’ KNOWLEDGE AND COMFORT AS HEART FAILURE EDUCATORS IN A NON-CARDIAC ACUTE CARE ENVIRONMENT PRIOR TO PROVIDING AN ONLINE LEARNING MODULE
Author: Ware, Nicole
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health education, Health services administration
Description: ABSTRACT NICOLE PHAY WARE. Exploring nurses’ knowledge and comfort as heart failure educators in a non-cardiac acute care environment prior to providing an online learning module (Under the direction of DR. CHARLENE WHITAKER-BROWN)Heart Failure (H...

Title: DISPARITIES IN WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA: EXPLORING CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF ACCESS, USE AND QUALITY OF CARE
Author: Olorunsaiye, Comfort
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration, Area studies
Description: Background: The West and Central African region bears the highest burden of maternal mortality globally. Objectives: The aims of this study were to: examine the association between women’s perception of domestic violence (DV) and choice of contrac...

Title: Examining Policy, Enabler And Access Factor Effects On U.S State Medicaid Pharmaceutical Utilization And Expenditures
Author: EGHAN, EMMANUEL
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Health services administration, Industrial management
Description: Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 and the subsequent Medicaid state expansion...

Title: CORONARY REVASCULARIZATION STRATEGIES AND THE EFFECTS OF DIABETES COMPLICATIONS ON POOR HEALTH
Author: Ekezue, Bola
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Medical sciences, Health services administration
Description: Objectives: This research assessed the effect of comorbid diabetes complications on short-term adverse outcomes: in-hospital mortality, postoperative stroke, postoperative renal failure and readmissions within 30 days of discharge after coronary a...

Title: Black MSM Oral Health Behaviors and Implications for HIV Risk
Author: Johnson, Darrin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration, Social service
Description: The primary goal of this qualitative and quantitative mixed methods exploratory pilot study is to determine the oral health behaviors of Black men who have sex with men (MSM). The secondary goal of this mixed methods study is to determine if Black...

Title: Optimal Override Policy for Chemotherapy Scheduling Template via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
Author: Sikder, Ishtiak
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Health services administration
Description: Owing to treatment complexity in chemotherapy administration, nurses are usually required at the beginning, end, and at certain times during treatment to ensure high-quality infusion. It is, thus, critical for an outpatient chemotherapy unit to de...

Title: North Carolina free clinics: Effective primary care provider for the uninsured
Author: Hutchison, Jenny
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Health services administration
Description: Although the United States has recently made progress in reducing the number of uninsured in the country as a result of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, millions will continue to be unable to access insurance, ...

Title: The Differences between Violently and Nonviolently Injured Trauma Patients and the Factors among Violently Injured Trauma Patients following a Brief Alcohol Counseling Intervention
Author: Dongre, Leigh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Mental health, Health services administration
Description: Alcohol use is well documented as a public health issue and a significant contributor to violent injury (Lam & Chim, 2010; World Health Organization, 2006). The purpose of this research was to examine the difference between violently and nonviolen...

Title: The Value of Prosthetic Rehabilitation for Current and Potential Lower Limb Prosthesis Users
Author: Miller, Taavy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences, Health services administration
Description: The goal of this dissertation is to inform clinicians, researchers and policy makers of the potential value of prosthesis intervention for individuals who experience a lower limb amputation. In addition, this dissertation supports the call for mor...

Title: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND ASTHMA AND USE OF ADDITIONAL SERVICES FOR THEIR MANAGEMENT IN THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH
Author: Hamedani, Abbas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Health education, Medical sciences, Health services administration
Description: ABSTRACTABBAS G. HAMEDANI. The Association Between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Asthma and use of additional services for their management in the national survey of children’s health (Under the direction of DR. YVETTE M. HUET)This study was conduc...

Title: Assessing the Levels of Racial Implicit Bias Among Anesthesia Providers
Author: Ogbonnaya, Ngozichi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Health services administration
Description: Implicit biases are detrimental to patient care and outcomes, yet they are prevalent among providers. Research has shown implicit bias hinders rapport between patient and provider, leading to patients becoming resistant to medical advice and treat...