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Healthcare, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2015 - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,731 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2015

Background: There is currently a resurgence of interest in interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) and its potential to positively impact health outcomes at both the patient level and population level, healthcare delivery, and...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,071 Views
10 Pages

18 March 2015

In America, mental health needs surpass the availability of specialized providers. This vulnerable population also has other obstacles for comprehensive care including gaps in medical coverage, stigma, economic barriers, and a geographical mal‑distri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,874 Views
16 Pages

5 March 2015

Published atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines and decision tools offer oral anticoagulant (OAC) recommendations; however, they consider stroke and bleeding risk differently. The aims of our study are: (i) to compare the variation in OAC recommendatio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
14,799 Views
30 Pages

The Microbiome and Sustainable Healthcare

  • Rodney R. Dietert and
  • Janice M. Dietert

3 March 2015

Increasing prevalences, morbidity, premature mortality and medical needs associated with non-communicable diseases and conditions (NCDs) have reached epidemic proportions and placed a major drain on healthcare systems and global economies. Added to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,211 Views
16 Pages

Access to Specialist Care in Rural Saskatchewan: The Saskatchewan Rural Health Study

  • Chandima P. Karunanayake,
  • Donna C. Rennie,
  • Louise Hagel,
  • Joshua Lawson,
  • Bonnie Janzen,
  • William Pickett,
  • James A. Dosman,
  • Punam Pahwa and
  • The Saskatchewan Rural Health Study Group

16 February 2015

The role of place has emerged as an important factor in determining people’s health experiences. Rural populations experience an excess in mortality and morbidity compared to those in urban settings. One of the factors thought to contribute to this r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,640 Views
14 Pages

12 February 2015

Long term health conditions either wholly or partly diet-related continue to increase. Although pharmacists and allied health professionals (AHPs) have a role in the management of patients with long term conditions, there is limited research explorin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,433 Views
6 Pages

12 February 2015

Objective: There is still little evidence regarding the type of mattress that is the best for preventing pressure ulcers (PUs). In a Dutch nursing home, a new type of overlay mattress (air inflated visco-elastic foam) was tested to analyze the opport...

  • Review
  • Open Access
123 Citations
27,795 Views
14 Pages

29 January 2015

An increasing proportion of healthcare resources in the United States are directed toward an expanding group of complex and multimorbid patients. Federal stakeholders have called for new models of care to meet the needs of these patients. Minimally D...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,996 Views
14 Pages

28 January 2015

The outbreak of an emerging infectious disease of zoonotic origin has exposed the weaknesses in the health systems of the nations affected. The purpose of this paper was to explore the political economy of the existing outcome of the management strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,811 Views
16 Pages

22 January 2015

Evidence of technological performance, medical improvements and economic effectiveness is generally considered sufficient for judging advances in healthcare. In this paper, I aim to add knowledge about the ways human emotions and professional relatio...

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