Browsing by Subject "patient care"

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    Data to Accompany the 'Addressing Disparities in Physician Access to Information in Support of Evidence-based Practice' Study
    (2019-09-13) Aspinall, Erinn E; Hunt, Shanda L; Theis-Mahon, Nicole R; Chew, Katherine V; Olawsky, Evan; aspin005@umn.edu; Aspinall, Erinn E; University Libraries
    Data was gathered for a study that aimed to determine if physicians have access to information resources needed to support Evidence Based Practice (EBP). A survey was distributed to physicians licensed to practice in Minnesota who provided their email address to the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice. A total of 16,689 physicians were included in the licensing board mailing list; 13,726 provided their email address to the board and were contacted to participate in the survey. Of those, 1,188 individuals (8.7%) began the survey (all responses), 925 (6.7%) completed the survey, and 877 (6.4%) were used in the data analysis. The survey included 15 questions. Four short answer questions related to the number of unanswered clinical questions occurring each day when seeing patients, the number of those sought and answered, and the time spent seeking answers to those questions. One question asked physicians about their access to information resources that support EBP. One open-ended optional question asked participants to list additional information resources they use. Two Likert questions asked participants to what extent their information needs were met and the frequency of full-text access. Another open-ended question asked about strategies for accessing full-text books and articles. Finally, seven demographic questions were asked, including one on participant affiliation with either the UMN or the Mayo Clinic. Data collected are included in MN_physician_survey_dataset.csv and have value to those seeking to understand physician information seeking needs and behavior in support of EBP.
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    How Will Medical Care Change After Health Reform? Patient Care and Payment Reform
    (2013-05-31) Guyette, Michael; Berenson, Bob; Jesson, Lucinda; Paulus, Ken
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    How Will Medical Care Change After Health Reform? Patient Care and Payment Reform
    (2013-05-31) Guyette, Michael; Berenson, Bob; Jesson, Lucinda; Paulus, Ken
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    Learning Healthcare System enabled by Real-time Knowledge Extraction from Text data
    (2019-07) Kaggal, Vinod
    We have a critical void in the clinical informatics ecosystems in enabling information captured in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to be transformed into actionable knowledge. Incorporating knowledge into clinical practice leveraging informatics based analytical tools is critical in delivering optimal clinical care and lead us toward an effective Learning Healthcare System (LHS). A robust infrastructure plays a very critical role in enabling such clinical informatics ecosystems. This robust infrastructure must guarantee the ability to manage data volume and velocity, variety and veracity. This thesis work accomplishes i) Proposal of a data model to support building a robust analytics framework to automatically compute the knowledge within the EHR ii) Infrastructure to scale-up analytics and knowledge delivery iii) Clinical and Research projects that utilize this infrastructure for near real-time analysis of text data to derive intuitive clinical inferences of patient’s multi-dimensional data.
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    Pharmacists’ Roles and Factors Affecting Patient Care in Korea
    (University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, 2015) Hwang, Monica J.; Young, Henry N.
    Objectives: This study was conducted to explore Korean community pharmacists’ perceptions of their roles in providing care to patients after the implementation of the Separation of Prescribing and Dispensing Act (SPD Act) and to investigate pharmacists’ perceptions about factors that impact their patient care. Methods: Eight community pharmacists participated in semi-structured, face-to-face, in-depth interviews in Korea. A snowball sampling technique was used to obtain participants. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed. Interviews were analyzed using a summative content analysis procedure. Key findings: Participants’ perceptions of their roles centered on dispensing prescriptions, educating and counseling patients, and helping patients with OTC products. Participants perceived time constraints due to prescription volume and patient expectations as factors influencing their provision of patient care. Conclusion: This study suggests that the SPD Act was successful in changing pharmacists’ roles in the Korean health care system. None of the participants perceived their role to include prescribing, while all of the participants indicated that their primary role was to dispense medications. Future research should examine the pervasiveness of the themes identified in this study across Korean community pharmacy practice in order to generalize the impact of the SPD Act.