While the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a historical event marking the beginning of health care reform in the United States, it signaled the start of a golden age for ambulatory care nursing. Ambulatory care RNs are well-positioned to fully participate in health care reform initiatives. RNs are well-positioned to lead, facilitate, and/or participate in all patien...

Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA), the practice of showing advertisements based on a person’s web browsing behaviour, has become a vital component of the ad-supported web. The tracking of users’ browsing behaviour that is needed for OBA, however, raises privacy concerns. We give an overview of the OBA landscape, and describe which user information is collected, which techniques are used to p...

OBJECTIVE If quality improvement interventions, value-based purchasing and/or certification are based on patient assessments, a common definition of quality should be shared by clinicians and patients. The study's objectives were to determine (i) how patients and clinicians define quality care, (ii) in what ways patients' and physicians' definitions differ and (iii) whether patients' definition...

The objective of this paper is to propose a set guidelines establish an office Student Accessibility Services (SAS) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). proposed help integrate disjointed knowledge facilitate its interpretation and implementation during deployment basic support services favor students with disability. These can mitigate complexity providing SAS for the first time HEIs. cove...

Background: Providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the Iranian Mental Health Office and the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (affiliated with WHO). The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

OBJECTIVES This report describes the utilization of ambulatory medical care services as provided by nonfederally employed, office-based orthopedic surgeons during the period 1995-96. Statistics are presented on selected physician, patient, and visit characteristics. METHODS The data presented in this report were collected from the 1995 and 1996 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys (NAMCS)...

PURPOSE Telehealth is a care delivery model that promises to increase the flexibility and reach of health services. Our objective is to describe patient experiences with video visits performed with their established primary care clinicians. METHODS We constructed semistructured, in-depth qualitative interviews with adult patients following video visits with their primary care clinicians at a ...

a Office of Rare Diseases Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States b Office of the Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States c Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections, Rockville, MD, United States d Combined Ne...

OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility of a partnership between a community pharmacy and a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) by measuring the impact on office- and patient-level clinical outcomes. SETTING Kroger Pharmacy and a PCMH practice in Cincinnati, OH. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION The Kroger Co. is a large grocery store chain that operates 102 pharmacies in the Cincinnati-Dayton marketin...