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Delivery System Reform Tracking: A Framework for Understanding Change
Proposes a framework for tracking progress on delivery system reforms such as patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations by assessing structures, capabilities, incentives, and outcomes. Outlines challenges for data collection
Mapping Current and Potential Sources of Routine Data Capture on New Psychoactive Substances in Scotland
The paper maps the data currently being captured on NPS, and provides a starting point for exploring the strengths and weaknesses of a number of existing data systems in Scotland, and opportunities for data sharing
Overcoming Challenges to Teamwork in Patient-Centered Medical Homes: A Qualitative Study
There is emerging consensus that enhanced inter-professional teamwork is necessary for the effective and efficient delivery of primary care, but there is less practical information specific to primary care available to guide practices on how to better work as teams. The purpose of this study was to describe how primary care practices have overcome challenges to providing team-based primary care and the implications for care delivery and policy
Testing of disability identification tool for schools
There has been an ongoing concern about the lack of reliable data on disabled children in schools. To date there has been no consistent way of identifying and categorising disabilities. Schools in England are currentlyrequired to collect data on children with Special Educational Need (SEN), but this does not capture information about all disabled children. The lack of this information may seriously restrict capacity at all levels of policy and practice to understand and respond to the needs of disabled children and their families in line with Disability Discrimination Act (2005) and the single Equality Act (2010). The aim of the project was to test the draft tools for identifying disability and accompanying guidance in a sample of all types of maintained schools in order to assess their usability and reliability and whether they resulted in the generation of robust and consistent data that could reliably inform school returns for the annual School Census
Closing Evidence Gaps on the Prevalence and Harms of New Psychoactive Substances in Scotland
This paper considers the state of knowledge on New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) in Scotland, with a focus on prevalence and harms and puts forward proposals which may assist in closing existing evidence gaps
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Towards a Smarter organization for a Self-servicing Society
Traditional social organizations such as those for the management of
healthcare are the result of designs that matched well with an operational
context considerably different from the one we are experiencing today. The new
context reveals all the fragility of our societies. In this paper, a platform
is introduced by combining social-oriented communities and complex-event
processing concepts: SELFSERV. Its aim is to complement the "old recipes" with
smarter forms of social organization based on the self-service paradigm and by
exploring culture-specific aspects and technological challenges.Comment: Final version of a paper published in the Proceedings of
International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for
Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAI'16), special track
on Emergent Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living (ETAAL
A National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care
Establishes the framework for a set of preferred practices that can be implemented to provide palliative and hospice care that is safe, beneficial, timely, patient-centered, efficient, and equitable
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