BMC Psychiatry 2014 Aug 29;14:243. Epub 2014 Aug 29.
Gynecol Obstet Fertil Senol 2021 Feb 23. Epub 2021 Feb 23.
Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique - CHU Saint-Pierre, Réunion, 410, 97 Avenue du Président Mitterrand, Réunion.
Objective: To compare the effectiveness and the safety of cervical ripening between two methods: the Cook double balloon catheter and the dinoprostone pessary (Propess 10mg).Methods: We performed a retrospective comparative study in a French maternity. We analyzed 404 women with induction of labour after 37 gestational weeks, with singleton cephalic live fetus, unscarred uterus, unruptured membranes, and Bishop score < 6. Read More
Sociol Health Illn 2021 Feb 26. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
The decommissioning of a health-care service is invariably a highly complex and contentious process which faces many implementation challenges. There has been little specific theorisation of this phenomena, although insights can be transferred from wider literatures on policy implementation and change processes. In this paper, we present findings from empirical case studies of three decommissioning processes initiated in the English National Health Service. Read More
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2021 Feb 26. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
4Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria.
The global COVID-19 pandemic is predicted to compromise the achievement of global reproductive, maternal, and newborn health (RMNH) targets. The objective of this study was to determine the health facility (HF) preparedness for RMNH service delivery during the outbreak from the perspective of RMNH providers and to determine what factors significantly predict this. An anonymous cross-sectional online survey of RMNH providers was conducted from to July 1-21, 2020 in Lagos State, Nigeria. Read More
Perm J 2020 Dec;25
Department of Public Health, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: Community health centers (CHCs) in British Columbia, Canada, are using a data-driven approach to enable functions related to the design, organization, management, delivery, and evaluation of primary health care services for complex populations.Methods: Descriptive study leveraging case studies from 4 CHCs in Vancouver, Canada, to provide an overview and examples of the functions and outputs of the Vancouver Community Analytics Tool (VCAT). Quantitative data were derived from electronic medical record data and regional emergency department data. Read More
J Nurs Scholarsh 2021 Feb 26. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
Professor, School of Nursing, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Purpose: This study investigates the expectations, perceptions, and gaps of the healthcare service quality (HSQ) from the patients' perspective, and explores the significant demographic and clinical factors associated with the HSQ in nurse practitioner practice (NPP).Design: A cross-sectional design was carried out, with convenience sampling performed under the NPP in Taiwan, from June to November 2016.Methods: The Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Service Quality Scale was used to assess the expectations, perceptions, and gaps of the HSQ. Read More