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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
West Virginia Needle Exchange Program, Briana Washington, Sara Johnson
West Virginia Needle Exchange Program, Briana Washington, Sara Johnson
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Introduction: Needle Exchange Programs (NEPs) have been controversial aspects of public healthcare due to conflicting beliefs and opinions for public policies. NEPs allow Injection Drug Users (IDUs) the ability to exchange their used equipment for clean, unused supplies.
Purpose: The purpose of this literature review was to determine the effectiveness of needle exchange programs and the impact it has had on the reduction of HIV and viral hepatitis infections in people who inject drugs. It further explores if these strategies have had a positive impact on the reduction of HIV and viral hepatitis C in West Virginia.
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Balance Score Card In Health Care Organization, Vani Pathuri, Huanyu Wang
Balance Score Card In Health Care Organization, Vani Pathuri, Huanyu Wang
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Balance Score Card is a strategic planning and management system and it helps in observing organizational business activities. This approach has improved the organizational performances. It has four perspectives of vision and strategy listed as financial, internal business, learning and growth, and customer perspective. A semi structured interview has been taken with Tanya Morton, who is an Assistant Director of Nursing at Cabell Huntington hospital. Hospital graphs have shown that the utilization of BSC with Nurse Department have become more satisfied during the eight years, and the remaining three departments also showed satisfactory report with BSC.
Is Interoperability A Hindrance To The Nationwide Health Information Exchange (Nhie)?, Nitesh Patil, Sruthi Katamneni
Is Interoperability A Hindrance To The Nationwide Health Information Exchange (Nhie)?, Nitesh Patil, Sruthi Katamneni
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Introduction: HIE is the exchange of clinical data as well as healthcare data among the providers, healthcare institutions, and data repositories. Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), was adopted in the year 2004, under the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) with an objective to share the files electronically securely and in a safe manner.
Methodology: The literature review included 40 references in which information relevant to the purpose of this study was scrutinized; these references met the inclusion criterion. The methodology for this study was an extensive and thorough literature review. The sources utilized in this …
Telemedicine And Its Utilization In The Management Of Chronic Heart Failure Patients, Adejoke Sotome, Chirra Pooja
Telemedicine And Its Utilization In The Management Of Chronic Heart Failure Patients, Adejoke Sotome, Chirra Pooja
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Introduction: Telemedicine is well developed and very useful for heart failure patients in emergencies. Many cases of heart failures are due to inability of reaching the physicians on time and failure of assessing the patient disease condition at earlier stage.
Methodology: The methodology for this study was a literature review. Electronic databases used included EBSCO Host, Google Scholar, Academic Search Premier, PubMed, ProQuest, and Marshall Digital Scholar. A total of 32 sources were referenced.
Results: This literature review examined several studies and research articles on the significance of Telemedicine in the treatment of chronic heart failure patients with …