Health Personnel - Standards
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The adult with cerebral palsy: a provider-consumer perspective.

30 Jul 2009 Advances in medical and surgical care over the past 20 years have resulted in children who formerly would have died at birth or in infancy now surviving into adulthood, many with significant, permanent physical disabilities, including those due to ... Read more...

Quality measurement in orthopaedics: the purchasers' view.

28 Jul 2009 While all of medicine is under pressure to increase transparency and accountability, joint replacement subspecialists will face special scrutiny. Disclosures of questionable consulting fees, a demographic shift to younger patients, and uncertainty ... Read more...

North Carolina's direct care workforce development journey: the case of the North Carolina New Organizational Vision Award Partner Team.

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Better Jobs Better Care was a five-state direct care workforce demonstration designed to change policy and management practices that influence recruitment and retention of direct care workers, problems that continue to challenge ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Personnel - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The gift of time. 11 Oct 2009
• [Personnel and organizational requirements for the prevention of nosocomial infections: Recommendations from the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention] 30 Aug 2009
• [Preamble for chapter D , Hygiene Management, of the guidelines for hospital hygiene and infection prevention: guidelines of the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention] 30 Aug 2009
• Health care support staff must be regulated. 30 Jul 2009
• The adult with cerebral palsy: a provider-consumer perspective. 30 Jul 2009
• [Arguments for mandatory influenza vaccination] 29 Jul 2009
• Quality measurement in orthopaedics: the purchasers' view. 28 Jul 2009
• [The Semmelweis-reflex] 24 Jul 2009
• Supporting successful asthma management in schools: the role of asthma care providers. 7 Jul 2009
• North Carolina's direct care workforce development journey: the case of the North Carolina New Organizational Vision Award Partner Team. 29 Jun 2009
• Optometrists Association Australia Universal (entry-level) and Therapeutic Competency Standards for Optometry 2008. 9 Jun 2009
• Executive summary: value-based purchasing and technology assessment in orthopaedics. 2 Jun 2009
• Assessment of intramuscular injection practices of health workers in urban dispensaries. 30 May 2009
• Adapting standards of care under extreme conditions. 30 May 2009
• The quest to eliminate "never events". 30 May 2009
• Accounting for regression-to-the-mean in tests for recent changes in institutional performance: analysis and power. 28 May 2009
• Views of mental health care consumers on public reporting of information on provider performance. 29 Apr 2009
• University standards: the key to sustainability. 29 Apr 2009
• A survey of Cambodian health-care providers' HIV knowledge, attitudes and intentions to take a sexual history. 29 Apr 2009
• Tracheal intubation and alternative airway management devices used by healthcare professionals with different level of pre-existing skills: a manikin study. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Personnel'

Definition: Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)

Descriptor UI: D006282

Alternative terms: Health Personnel; Personnel, Health; Health Care Providers; Health Care Provider; Provider, Health Care; Providers, Health Care; Healthcare Providers; Healthcare Provider; Provider, Healthcare; Providers, Healthcare; Fieldworkers; Fieldworker; Field Workers; Field Worker; Worker, Field; Workers, Field;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; education; psychology;

Tree Number: M01.526.485; N02.360;

Online Note: pre-explosion = HEALTH PERSONNEL (PX)

History Note: 92; was NON MESH 1966-91; was see HEALTH MANPOWER 1989-91

Technical Notes: persons working in the field of health: do not confuse with HEALTH MANPOWER, the availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL