Enhancing accessibility of patients with cleft lip/palate to healthcare services via a cleft birth registration system.

Background: Cleft lip/palate is a critical health problem in Thailand; with an incidence rate of 2.49/1,000 live births. To insure the best outcomes, surgery should be performed near the age of three months.

Nursing care system development for patients with cleft lip-palate and craniofacial deformities in operating room Srinagarind Hospital.

Background: For a successful surgical outcome for patients with cleft lip/palate (CLP), the attending nurses must continuously develop their potential, knowledge, capacity and skills. The goal is to meet international standards of patient safety and efficiency.

Objective: To assess and improve the nursing care system for patients with CLP and craniofacial deformities at the operating room (OR), Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen University.

Treatment of 4-5 year old patients with cleft lip and cleft palate in Tawanchai center.

Background: The occurrence of Cleft Lip/Palate condition in Thailand reaches a rate of 2.49% of child births, with estimates of 800 new cases per year in the Northeastern region. The healthcare process emphasizes interdisciplinary teamwork at each stage of the planning of treatment and services with the primary goal of achieving patient satisfaction and ability to live normally in society.

The development of the nursing care system for patients with cleft lip-palate and craniofacial deformities at Tawanchai Cleft Center, Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen, Thailand.

Background: The highest incidence of cleft lip-palate and craniofacial deformities in Thailand occur in the Northeastern Region. There is the necessity for an interdisciplinary care team as well as the specialized care center with systematic coordinated care, thus "Tawanchai Cleft Center" is becoming a superior medical center for patients with cleft lip-palate and craniofacial deformities. Therefore, the development of the nursing care system for patients with cleft lip-palate and craniofacial deformities at Tawanchai Cleft Center, Srinagarind Hospital is extremely important and necessary.

Study of care for patients with cleft lip/palate (CLP) in Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Objective: The objectives of the study were to determine basic information, understand health-related problems and examine problem-solving strategies among patients with cleft lip/palate (CLP) residing in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR).

Material And Method: This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study. The research team interviewed 24 patients with CLP who underwent surgery at the Khammouan Hospital between October 16-20, 2010 and their caregivers.

Internet-Based Interactive Support for Cancer Patients: Are Integrated Systems Better?

To compare the benefits of the Internet generally versus a focused system of services, 257 breast cancer patients were randomly assigned to a control group, access to the Internet with links to high-quality breast cancer sites, or access to an eHealth system (Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System, CHESS) that integrated information, support, and decision and analysis tools. The intervention lasted 5 months, and self-report data on quality of life, health-care competence, and social support were collected at pretest and at 2-, 4-, and 9-month posttests. CHESS subjects logged on more overall than Internet subjects and accessed more health resources, but the latter used non health-related sites more.

Predicting the likelihood of falls among the elderly using likelihood basis pursuit technique.

This study reports on the application of the knowledge discovery in database process to generate models that can predict the likelihood of falls among the elderly who reside in long-term care facilities. This process was applied to data held in the Minimum Data Set, a comprehensive resident assessment instrument being used in all Medicare and Medicaid supported nursing homes in the United States. For this study, we incorporated a new data mining technique, Likelihood Basis Pursuit, into the process.

Use and Impact of eHealth System by Low-income Women With Breast Cancer.

This article is the second of a two-part series reporting on a population-based study intended to use an eHealth system to examine the feasibility of reaching underserved women with breast cancer (Gustafson, McTavish et al., Reducing the digital divide for low-income women with breast cancer, 2004; Madison Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis, University of Wisconsin; Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System [CHESS]) and determine how they use the system and what impact it had on them. Participants included women recently diagnosed with breast cancer whose income was at or below 250% of poverty level and were living in rural Wisconsin (n = 144; all Caucasian) or Detroit (n = 85; all African American).

Applying Knowledge Discovery in Databases in public health data set: challenges and concerns.

We are investigating the use of axiomatic design (AD) as a principled approach to the revision of guidelines. AD models guidelines in a modular and hierarchical manner and captures interactions be-tween modules. To test this approach we applied AD to encode segments of three guidelines and their revised versions.

Nursing Minimum Data Set development and implementation in Thailand.

Background: In 1997, the Thai Ministry of Public Health began planning to implement a national health information system. Development of the nursing component of this system is an ongoing process. The first step in developing a nursing information system is to identify an essential Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS).