Patricia Egan
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Establishing a Platform Method for Physical Appearance Assessment of New Parenteral Pharmaceuticals Open
Physical appearance (PA) is an attribute indicating the quality of parenteral pharmaceuticals. It is routinely evaluated during release and stability testing and included in regulatory filings. PA assessment of liquids involves three tests…
Releasing Operating Room Nursing Time to Care through the Reduction of Surgical Case Preparation Time: A Lean Six Sigma Pilot Study Open
Healthcare systems internationally are working under increasing demand to use finite resources with greater efficiency. The drive for efficiency utilises process improvement methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma. This study outlines a pilot…
WHAT FAMILY CAREGIVERS THINK AND FEEL WHEN PROXY ASSESSING FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES Open
Dementia family caregivers are routinely enlisted as proxy assessors of care recipient quality of life (QOL). Proxy assessment is not ideal because proxy assessments differ systematically from self-assessments and the assessment process ca…
DO INTRA-PROXY GAPS EMERGE WHEN FAMILY CAREGIVERS ASSESS QOL FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES? Open
Dementia family caregivers are routinely enlisted as proxy assessors of care recipients’ quality of life (QOL). This study explored whether prompts to change perspective during QOL assessment could elicit an intra-proxy gap. The intra-prox…