In burn scar rehabilitation, electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) are increasingly being used in research and clinical settings as part of patient- and family-centred care. These measures can identify patients’ needs and monito...
Purpose: To characterize pediatricians’ perceived barriers and areas of confidence in assessing patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in the U.S., and to test associations of these factors with implementing PRO assessment. Methods: Using a random sa...
27 November 2022
Objectives: Measuring implementation outcomes for digital mental health interventions is essential for examining the effective delivery of these interventions. The “Implementation Outcome Scale of Digital Mental Health” (iOSDMH) has been...
Background/Objectives: Rehabilitation robotics is increasingly used in neurorehabilitation, yet evidence on how robotic services are organized, maintained and scaled in routine care remains fragmented. This mapping review examined service-delivery mo...
We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intensive care unit (ICU) round checklist, FAST HUGS BID (Feeding, Analgesia, Sedation, Thromboembolic prophylaxis, Head-of-bed elevation, Ulcer prophylaxis, Glycemic control, Spontaneous breathing trial,...
20 October 2022
The study aims to explore the implementation outcome variables of Indonesia’s national policy convergence action in the stunting reduction intervention at district, sub-district, and village levels. The study design was qualitative with an impl...
Background/Objective: The Ethiopian Health Insurance Service (EHIS) introduced the capitation provider payment model as a pilot in Shaggar City in 2023. To date, no study has been conducted on its implementation status and prospects. Therefore, this...
Background: Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) has been designated by WHO as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, and the development of newborn screening (NBS) is crucial to the reduction of high SCD morbidity and mortality. Strategies from the fie...
Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds significant potential to enhance operational efficiency and quality in healthcare. However, despite substantial investment, its widespread, sustained implementation is limited, necessitating a thorough r...
In this study, experimental teaching was conducted through the artificial intelligence of things (AIOT) practical course, and the 4D (discover, define, develop, deliver) double diamond shape was used to design the course and plan the teaching content...
Background/Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) imposes a substantial long-term clinical and healthcare system burden, recurrent hospitalizations, impaired quality of life, and increasing long-term healthcare costs. Although patient-reported outcome...
Studies of Broadband China reach different environmental conclusions, but they do not always measure the same policy implementation or environmental outcome. We test whether conclusions survive changes in implementation, outcome, denominator, weighti...
Despite having explored various modes of water management over the past three decades, the water crisis persists and the Chinese government has been required to revolutionize river management from the top down. The River Chief System (RCS), which evo...
30 September 2022
School tobacco policies are often poorly implemented, which may explain their limited effectiveness. Further, constructs to measure implementation outcomes of school tobacco policies are missing. The Smoke-Free Vocational Schools intervention was des...
Background/Objectives: Extensive research has emphasised the persistent challenges and failures in providing hospitalised patients with fundamental evidence-based nursing care, often resulting in grave consequences for patient safety. Recommendations...
Outcome-Based Education (OBE) has been widely adopted in engineering education as a systematic framework for curriculum design, teaching, assessment, and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) through clearly defined learning outcomes. Effective implem...
Background: Exercise interventions are commonly considered as non-pharmacological approaches to support cognitive and functional outcomes in older adults with dementia. However, the effects reported in the literature remain heterogeneous, and commonl...
Background: Remote symptom monitoring via electronic platforms may identify patients at risk for unplanned acute care visits after surgery. Since 2016, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has employed the Recovery Tracker (RT), a patie...
Background: Patient-reported outcomes (pros) are essential to capture the patient’s perspective and to influence care. Although pros and pro measures are known to have many important benefits, they are not consistently being used and there is there n...
This paper examines local policy implementation of Cleaner Production (CP) in China. As the major policy implementer, China’s local government plays a crucial role in promoting CP. A better understanding of the factors affecting local government’s in...
Emerging research has shown that pharmacist-led comprehensive medication management (CMM) can be an effective strategy for controlling hypertension. A synthesis of the evidence on the overall effects of CMM on clinical, quality, and economic outcomes...
Accountability in education is an important legal, professional and ethical consideration for all teachers in their practice, as it leads to deep reflections about educational outcomes for their students. However, in respect of inclusive education, a...
Caregiver self-regulation may be a critical component of caregivers’ effective delivery of caregiver-mediated interventions (CMIs). CMIs are a highly evidence-based group of interventions that target a broad range of challenges, including socia...
Background: Robotic surgery and ERAS protocol care are both prominent developments and have each become global trends. However, the effects and learning curves of combining robotic surgery and ERAS care in colorectal resection have not yet been well...
Low back pain (LBP) occurs in all ages and first-line treatment by physiotherapists is common. The main aim of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing a best practice model of care for LBP (intervention group—BetterBack☺ M...
Telemedicine has the potential to substantially improve the care of children and adolescents with chronic respiratory diseases, including asthma, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, and chronic respiratory failure. Digital health interventions—suc...
Translation of evidence-based resuscitation practices into clinical settings remains slow and inconsistent, a gap that significantly impacts survival and neurological outcomes. Implementation science offers a structured approach to accelerate adoptio...
Guided by the Conceptual Model of Implementation Research, we explored the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of: (1) automated screening approaches utilizing existing health data to identify those who require subsequent diagnostic evalu...
13 November 2021
Quality measurement initiatives promote quality improvement in healthcare but can be challenging to implement effectively. This paper presents a Rapid Realist Review (RRR) of published literature on Quality Care-Process Metrics (QCP-M) implementation...
This paper reviews the changing strategies for both process and outcome evaluations of teen pregnancy prevention programs over the past few decades. Implementation evaluations have emphasized discovery of what program attributes are most effective in...
Evidence-based interventions have been shown to improve the quality of patient care, reduce costs, and improve overall health outcomes; however, adopting new published research and knowledge into practice has historically been slow, and requires an a...
Remote symptom monitoring using electronic patient-reported outcomes reduces symptom burden and acute care use in oncology, but most programs have been established in academic centers or funded trials using purpose-built software. We examined how the...
Background: Shared decision making (SDM) is the process by which patients and clinicians exchange information and preferences to come to joint healthcare decisions. Clinical dashboards can support SDM by collecting, distilling, and presenting critica...
Background: Hypertension remains a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where healthcare access and awareness are limited. Excessive sodium intake, often from...
Motivational interviewing (MI) is gaining traction in veterinary medicine as an evidence-based approach for engaging clients in conversations that strengthen their intrinsic motivation to change behaviours that affect the welfare of animals in their...
Background/Objectives: Musculoskeletal disorders and their surgical treatment significantly affect global disability, healthcare utilization, and costs. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key enabler of data-driven musculoskeletal care. Their applicat...
Reproductive genetic carrier screening (RGCS) provides people with information about their chance of having children with autosomal recessive or X-linked genetic conditions, enabling informed reproductive decision-making. RGCS is recommended to be of...
Background/Objectives: Despite recommendations to exercise, many individuals living with and beyond cancer do not achieve or sustain recommended physical activity levels because access to structured exercise support remains limited. We evaluated the...
Eye care is shifting into community and primary care settings, yet patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have not followed. Non-adoption is routinely attributed to clinician time, information technology, and absent guidance, explanations that are...
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are subjective assessments of health status or health-related quality of life. In childhood cancer survivors, PROMs can be used to evaluate the adverse effects of cancer treatment and guide cancer survivorshi...
19 March 2021
Exercise is related to many individual health outcomes but impact evaluations of exercise programmes are seldom conducted. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the feasibility of an exercise prescription intervention in primary health-care setting...
This systematic review analyses the evolution of gifted education in England between 2010 and 2025. The year 2010 serves as a critical turning point, characterized by the withdrawal of the national Gifted and Talented (G&T) policy and the subsequ...
Preconception care (PCC) is the provision of biomedical, behavioural, and social health interventions to women and couples before they fall pregnant. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed PCC recommendations in 2013, which were included in th...
Background/Objectives: 40 Hz sensory stimulation is being explored for cognitive health applications, but sustained use may be constrained by the listenability of simple 40 Hz auditory stimuli. We examined user-perceived acceptability and implementat...
Introduction: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a surgical treatment option for prostate cancer (PC). Quality in RARP depends on the surgeon´s operative volume and expertise. When implementing RARP, it is standard practice to hire...
Background: Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery is increasingly recognized as an advanced minimally invasive technique for treating non-small cell lung cancer, offering technical advantages such as enhanced precision and visualization. Although numerou...
Background/Objectives: The aging global population has led to a rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), in which biomedical outcomes alone fail to capture patients’ lived experiences. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) can...
22 November 2022
Co-production in mental health is a relatively new approach to designing and delivering mental health services, which involves collaboration amongst professionals, persons in recovery, and their caregivers to provide services. The aim of this protoco...
Background/Objectives: Global fertility rates are declining due to metabolic and mental health challenges in women trying to conceive. The Healthy Early Life Moments in Singapore (HELMS) program aims to address these challenges through mobile health...
Outcome-Based Engineering Education (OBEE), a performance-driven approach at the forefront of curriculum design, offers a reliable and scalable framework for reforming engineering education. This research examines the industrial and logistics enginee...
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