Articles Tagged With: barriers
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Solutions to Ending Barriers to Permanent Contraception
Among various barriers to permanent contraception, the Medicaid waiting period is one of the chief challenges for the many pregnant women who are receiving Medicaid during their pregnancy. It is a 30-day waiting period that begins when a person signs the Medicaid sterilization form.
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Effective Approaches to Close Gaps in Advance Care Planning
Advance care planning (ACP) has shown promise for helping people with the experience of living with serious illness. To address implementation and access gaps, researchers have tried a multitude of different interventions to improve ACP.
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Stakeholder Engagement Is Important in Palliative Care Research
Involving stakeholders in palliative care research promotes successful recruitment, data collection and analysis, and dissemination of study findings. However, researchers face many challenges in doing this effectively.
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Ethicists Can Address Low Advance Care Billing Rates
Rates of advance care planning billing remain low, despite billing codes having been introduced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services nearly a decade ago.
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Ethical Informed Consent Is Challenge in NICU
Informed consent is rooted in the ethical principles of patient autonomy and shared decision-making. Suboptimal consenting practices can jeopardize patient autonomy.
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Older ED Patients Face Barriers to Recommended Outpatient Care
Researchers conducted a study to find out the proportion of older adults discharged from the ED who were able to access primary care follow-up within four days.
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Confidential Contraception for Minors Is Harder to Obtain than Ever
About half of U.S. states do not allow minors to obtain contraception without parental approval. For adolescents and teens younger than age 18 years, their only confidential option is to visit a Title X clinic, where a federal ruling from decades ago gives them a right to contraception and privacy. But how does this work in practice? Researchers say that it does not work very well — and it is only getting worse.
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Emergency Nurses Face Barriers to Serious Illness Conversations
Emergency nurses view lack of privacy, concerns about delayed patient throughput, and perceived difficulty as barriers to having serious illness conversations with patients in the emergency department (ED) setting, a recent study found.
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Barriers to Urogynecologic Care
There is a paucity of literature on barriers to urogynecologic care in racial/ethnic minorities. Continued evaluation is needed to better understand the unique barriers to urogynecologic care in these populations.
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Addressing Racism and Microaggressions in Healthcare
Black women in healthcare face entrenched racism on a daily basis, from the death by a thousand cuts of microaggressions to the longstanding barriers to leadership positions.