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Addressing Bullying Behavior In Pediatric Patients Using A Clinical Practice Guideline, Barnitta Latricia Moses
Addressing Bullying Behavior In Pediatric Patients Using A Clinical Practice Guideline, Barnitta Latricia Moses
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Childhood bullying can lead to adverse physical and mental health outcomes for both the victim and the bully. Risk factors for bullying can be related to gender, race, sexual preference, and having any type of disability. A pediatric primary care clinic in a large, metropolitan area, the focus for this project, did not have an evidenced-based clinical practice guideline (CPG) for providers to facilitate the management of children who presented with reported bullying. The project, guided by the Tanner's integrated model of clinical judgement, addressed the question whether a CPG would facilitate the early recognition and treatment of bullying in …
Increasing Uninsured Patients' Compliance With Return Primary Care Visits, Dorothy Clare Carleton
Increasing Uninsured Patients' Compliance With Return Primary Care Visits, Dorothy Clare Carleton
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Patients who are unable to comply with their health care regimen are almost 3 times more likely to have an adverse health outcome and are more likely to suffer irreversible progression of a chronic disease process. Increasing patient return clinic visits is essential, not only to curtail rapidly rising costs of health care but also to improve patient outcomes. This project focused on an uninsured patient population of a clinic in a rural community in the southeastern United States. The purpose of the project was to conduct a systematic review of the literature and identify the barriers and motivating factors …
Noncompliance With Follow-Up Visits In Primary Care, Amanda Michelle Northern
Noncompliance With Follow-Up Visits In Primary Care, Amanda Michelle Northern
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
No-show appointments, also referred to as missed appointments, occur 23% to 34% annually in general practice care settings. Missed appointments can lead to reduction in appointment availability, decrease in provider/staff productivity, patient/provider discordance, disruption in continuity of care, and reduced quality of care. There is a gap in the nursing literature regarding effective interventions to reduce missed appointments. The purpose of this quality improvement, secondary analysis project was to determine whether implementation of an evidence-based no-show, nurse-led intervention would reduce missed appointment rates in a family medicine practice. The health belief model and the plan, do, study, act model guided …