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Using Critical And Transformative Theory To Describe Basic Palliative Care In The Acute Care Setting, Tammy Neiman

Theses and Dissertations

The population of chronically ill, older adults is expected to grow in the coming years as the baby boomer generation ages. The Institute of Medicine recommends that all healthcare providers have a basic competency in palliative care, also referred to as basic palliative care. The definitions and descriptions to date are vague and do not provide an in-depth description of how basic palliative care differs from the care provided by specialists. The purpose of this study was to describe nurses’ understanding and perceptions of basic palliative care in the acute care setting. Focus group and individual interviews were utilized for …

Improving The Diagnostic Accuracy Of Failure-To-Rescue, Amelia Marie Joseph

Theses and Dissertations

The ability to successfully rescue patients from complications has been shown to be a good measure of quality care processes in hospitals. Failure-to-rescue (FTR) has been defined using secondary International Classification of Disease (ICD-9 CM) codes. Studies of FTR using these codes have demonstrated satisfactory accuracy when compared to clinical events documented in the medical record. However, a subset of the original codes for FTR, thought to be sensitive to nursing care, have failed to show the same level of accuracy. This study examined the possibility of using clinica lpredictors to identify failure-to-rescue.

Secondary analysis of a previous dataset was …