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Pérez-Jorge, David; Barragán-Medero, Fernando; Herrera-Hernández, Juan Manuel; Falcón-Chueca, Selene – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
The evaluation results of the Orthogeriatric Unit at Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Hospital, Tenerife, Canary Islands, are set out in this paper. The fundamental aim has been the assessment of comprehensive rehabilitation and the improvement of quality of life, which would allow a faster discharge process for patients over 65 years of age. A…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Programs, Health Services, Program Evaluation, Geriatrics
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Larsen, Henry; Friis, Preben; Heape, Chris – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2018
Healthcare practitioners are often presented with vulnerable encounters where their professional experience is insufficient when dealing with patients who suffer from illnesses such as chronic pain. How can one otherwise understand chronic pain and develop practices whereby medical healthcare practitioners can experience alternative ways of doing…
Descriptors: Health Services, Change, Theater Arts, Chronic Illness
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Gomez, Jorge E.; Huete, Juan F.; Hernandez, Velssy L. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2016
The dynamics of the world today demands a change in traditional education paradigms to enable the creation of more efficient learning environments, where students will learn more effectively and will play a more active role in their education. They should interact with the knowledge at anytime-anywhere. In order to tackle this problem we should…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Olivares, Mónica; Pena, Carmen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
As members of a nationally accredited research project (I?+?D+i) InterMED (ref.: FF2011-25500) being carried out in the field of Intercultural Mediation, we are aware of the mediator's delicate role in communicative interactions between health professionals and foreign population. Sales has pointed out the dangers of stereotyping minorities and…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Patients
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Tejada, Antonio J. Rojas; Rojas, Oscar M. Lozano – Social Indicators Research, 2005
Background: The Item Response Theory (IRT) has advantages for measuring Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) as opposed to the Classical Tests Theory (CTT). Objectives: To present the results of the application of a polytomous model based on IRT, specifically, the Rating Scale Model (RSM), to measure HRQOL with the EORTC QLQ-C30. Methods: 103…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Probability, Patients, Health Services