Analysis of Network Type Exchange in the Health Care System: A Stakeholder Approach

Yang, Wenhui; Hu, Jersan; Chou, Ya-Yen

doi:10.1007/s10916-010-9618-5

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“…Considering the difficulties presented by the current global economic situation and the scarcity of resources, collaborations between available organizations would be advantageous. Further network analysis studies of such collaborations are needed to identify gaps in the system [30, 44, 45] and determine the changes needed to bring about an integrated health care system [42, 46]. …”

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Identifying clinical and support service resources and network practices for cancer patients and survivors in southern Puerto Rico

Castro

Jiménez

Quinn

et al. 2014

Support Care Cancer

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Objective The objectives of this study were to identify cancer-related health care services and to explore the presence of inter-organizational interactions among clinical and support oncology services in southern Puerto Rico. Methods From January through July of 2010, a survey was completed by 54 health care organizations offering clinical, supportive, or both services to cancer patients/survivors (CPS) in southern PR. Survey data were compiled and descriptive analyses performed using the software Statistical Package for a Social Science (SPSS), version 18.0. Results The distribution of the primary services provided by the participating organizations was the following: 26 had clinical services, 16 had support services, and 12 offered a combination of clinical and support services. Only 24% of the surveyed organizations offered their services exclusively to patients diagnosed with cancer. In terms of referral practices, 61% of the responses were for medical specialists, 43% were for mental health services, and 37% were referrals for primary care services. The most common reason for interacting (n = 27) was to provide a given patient both an referral and information. Conclusion Findings suggest gaps in both the availability of oncology services and the delivery of integrated health care. Lack of communication among clinical and support organizations (for cancer patients, specifically) could negatively impact the quality of the services that they offer. Further network analysis studies are needed to confirm these gaps. Until systemic, structural changes occur, more efforts are needed to facilitate communication and collaboration among these kinds of organization.

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Identifying clinical and support service resources and network practices for cancer patients and survivors in southern Puerto Rico

Castro

Jiménez

Quinn

et al. 2014

Support Care Cancer

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“…Citizens and politicians are requiring hospitals to meet challenging sustainability-oriented targets and to adopt mitigation practices to reduce the vulnerability of both the ecosystem and social system [52]–[54]. Hospitals have significant impact on the local community they serve in terms of pollution, energy and water consumption, and as employers.…”

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Sustainability in Healthcare: Combining Organizational and Architectural Levers

Pinzone

Lettieri

Masella

2012

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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Healthcare has been progressively required to improve its environmental performance as have other industries in recent years. In this regard, many new healthcare facilities have been built worldwide adopting sustainability‐oriented approaches. However, results have been limited from an ecological and economic perspective, and many projects have rapidly become failures and then been abandoned. A large part of these failures is grounded in the misalignment between the adoption of eco‐friendly facilities and greening technologies and the persistence of outdated practices, mindsets and behaviors among healthcare professionals. This study aims at furthering the current debate among leading practitioners and scholars of engineering business management about the combination of organizational and architectural levers for improving the sustainability of healthcare delivery. By taking a socio‐technical systems perspective, we developed a literature‐grounded framework and relative propositions with respect to the improvement of sustainability‐related performances in hospitals through the combination of organizational and architectural levers. Ten levers and their mutual relationships have been identified and described

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“…These molecules directly affect the differentiation of undifferentiated T cells into CD4+ T cells (helper T cells) and CD8+ T cells (killer T cells). [23,24] Detection of MHC I and MHC II expression on cell membranes are helpful for further inferring the clinical application of bone repair matrixes. The source of the cell membrane should be considered for different research subjects.…”

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Hybrid Cell Membrane‐Functionalized Matrixes for Modulating Inflammatory Microenvironment and Improving Bone Defect Repair

Qiao

2023

Adv Healthcare Materials

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Cell membranes from different sources retain the integrity of the original membrane structure and special membrane protein functions. However, the diversity function of membrane surface proteins is underutilized in bone defect repair. The current study creatively prepared a hybrid membrane (HM) (diameter, 92.25 ± 16.47 nm) and coated it on a poly-𝝐-caprolactone (PCL) (diameter, 313.79 ± 4.69 nm) electrospinning membrane for cell membrane-functionalized matrixes (MFMs) (diameter, 368.76 ± 5.90 nm) preparation. The effects of the HM and MFMs on inflammatory regulation and bone formation are further explored in vitro and in vivo. The results showed that MFMs can regulate macrophage into anti-inflammatory phenotype and promote alkaline phosphatase secretion and mineralization deposition of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vitro. The foreign body response is alleviated and bone regeneration is facilitated in rat calvarial critical-size defect in vivo. The study provides an innovative approach to applicate the cell membrane functions from different sources for immunomodulatory and osteogenic differentiation and provides a promising choice for designing bone repair materials.

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Analysis of Network Type Exchange in the Health Care System: A Stakeholder Approach

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Identifying clinical and support service resources and network practices for cancer patients and survivors in southern Puerto Rico

Identifying clinical and support service resources and network practices for cancer patients and survivors in southern Puerto Rico

Sustainability in Healthcare: Combining Organizational and Architectural Levers

Hybrid Cell Membrane‐Functionalized Matrixes for Modulating Inflammatory Microenvironment and Improving Bone Defect Repair

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