A visit to the dentist may induce fear or anxiety related to a previous bad dental experience, anticipated pain, or negative experiences with previous providers. Individuals who are survivors of complex trauma experiences may also experience additional concerns and more pervasiv…
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With a history of recurring occupations and dictatorships, the development of the Dominican national infrastructure has been heavily interrupted by continuous transfers of power. As a result, the lack of a lean government structure is evident when studying the national healthcar…
The purpose of this study was to explore the pregnancy related experiences of Bangladeshi immigrant women living in a major American metropolitan area: New York City. The study was conducted using an in-depth interview based qualitative research design in which data were collect…
There have been a number of researches that investigated ICT adoption in Malaysian healthcare. With the small number of hospitals that adopt ICT in their daily clinical and administrative operations, the possibility to enable data exchange across 131 public hospitals in Malaysia…
The proliferation and ubiquity of SemanticWeb technologies have transformed the way computer society reshapes its technology through knowledge integration, knowledge reuse and knowledge sharing. Ontology, one of the Semantic Web components, is a way to represent domain knowledge…
Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) are reported each year. HAIs are infections that occur whilst in hospital or as a result of hospital admittance, contamination of hospitals is a source of, and allows dissemination of HAIs. In healthcare s…
Healthcare as a system has been and will always be a vital public provision to support human existence. The onus rests with every nation's healthcare system to provide health services; and individuals to consciously embrace healthy living. The health status of people in rural ar…
Unexplained variations in organisational performance in healthcare are a continued focus of research, political, and public interest. Regulatory agencies are always seeking new ways to reduce variation and improve performance, and the use of approaches to develop improvement cap…
Today, in 21st century healthcare at least 10% of hospitalised patients are subjected to some degree of unintended harm as a result of the treatment they receive. Despite the growing patient safety agenda there is little empirical evidence to demonstrate that patient safety is i…
Since its inauguration in 1948, the National Health Service (NHS) has been providing “free at the point of delivery” healthcare to all UK citizens. However, lately, there has been unprecedented concern over the capability of most NHS hospitals to demonstrate best value in provid…
When even seemingly benign and routine processes fail in healthcare, people sometimes die. The profound effect on the patient’s families and the healthcare staff involved is clear (Vincent and Coulter, 2002), while further consequences are felt by the institution involved, both …
Despite being comparatively similar countries, the United States and Canada have taken very different historical tracks to developing their respective health care systems. While Canada incrementally developed a system of universal coverage through national public insurance, the …
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is increasingly a problem in the United States, and factors such as race/ethnicity and gender may not only worsen the risk of the disease but also correspond to worse treatment access. This is significant because ESRD is a heavy economic burden not…
Prior research on gender diverse caregiving experiences focused mostly on binary transgender perceptions, either treating non-binary people as an afterthought or excluding them altogether. Though non-binary identities are beginning to gain attention in current research, not enou…
This research addresses a process mining methodology to maximize the information obtained from data bases with high levels of event order uncertainty. In healthcare environments, the databases that are easiest to obtain and most representative of a patient's entire hospital stay…
Healthcare reform has become a major topic of research in process improvement (PI) due to rising costs and quality issues. There is an opportunity for improvement of PI methodologies to obtain optimal results in a healthcare environment. Research shows that process mining (PM) c…
The need for chemotherapy treatments at outpatient settings have significantly increased in the past several years. Ambulatory Infusion Centers are encountering difficulties in matching individual patient needs and infusion chair availability due to the high variability in chemo…
Various studies have shown that sonographers experience work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) due to the nature of their profession. Even though these WMSDs are very prevalent and expensive, they can often be prevented with simple ergonomic interventions. While traditio…