9 results match your criteria: "University of St.Gallen (HSG)[Affiliation]"

Background: The digitalization of health care organizations is an integral part of a clinician's daily life, making it vital for health care professionals (HCPs) to understand and effectively use digital tools in hospital settings. However, clinicians often express a lack of preparedness for their digital work environments. Particularly, new clinical end users, encompassing medical and nursing students, seasoned professionals transitioning to new health care environments, and experienced practitioners encountering new health care technologies, face critically intense learning periods, often with a lack of adequate time for learning digital tools, resulting in difficulties in integrating and adopting these digital tools into clinical practice.

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Introduction: Clinical decision-making in oncology is a complex process, with the primary goal of identifying the most effective treatment tailored to individual cancer patients. Many factors influence the treatment decision: disease- and patient-specific criteria, the increasingly complex treatment landscape, market authorization and drug availability, financial aspects, and personal treatment expertise. In the domain of genitourinary cancers, particularly prostate cancer, decision-making is challenging.

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To address the persistent challenges in healthcare, it is crucial to incorporate firsthand experiences and perspectives from stakeholders such as patients and healthcare professionals. However, the current process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting qualitative data, such as interviews, is slow and labor-intensive. To expedite this process and enhance efficiency, automated approaches aim to extract meaningful themes and accelerate interpretation, but current approaches such as topic modeling reduce the richness of the raw data.

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We compare the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the social determination of health (SDET) from the school of Latin American Social Medicine/Collective Health. Whereas SDET acknowledges how capitalist rule continues to shape global structures and public health concerns, SDOH proffers neoliberal solutions that obscure much of the violence and dispossession that influence contemporary migration and health-disease experiences. Working in simultaneous ethnographic teams, the researchers here interviewed Honduran migrants in their respective sites of Honduras, Mexico, and the United States.

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Background: The digitalization of health care has many potential benefits, but it may also negatively impact health care professionals' well-being. Burnout can, in part, result from inefficient work processes related to the suboptimal implementation and use of health information technologies. Although strategies to reduce stress and mitigate clinician burnout typically involve individual-based interventions, emerging evidence suggests that improving the experience of using health information technologies can have a notable impact.

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Digitalization in healthcare has the potential to offer numerous advantages to various stakeholders, however, healthcare professionals often encounter difficulties while using digital tools. We conducted a qualitative analysis of published studies to examine the experience of clinicians using digital tools. Our findings revealed that human factors influence clinicians' experiences and that integration of human factors into the design and development of healthcare technologies is of high importance to improve user experience and overall success.

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COVID-19's impact on real estate markets: review and outlook.

Financ Mark Portf Mang

March 2021

Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance (s/bf), University of St.Gallen (HSG), Unterer Graben 21, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland.

As symbolized by vacant office buildings, empty shopping malls and abandoned flats in metropolitan areas, the new coronavirus disease 2019 has severely impacted real estate markets. This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of the latest academic insights into how this pandemic has affected the housing, commercial real estate and the mortgage market. Moreover, these findings are linked to comprehensive statistics of each real estate sector's performance during the crisis.

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Background: In spite of the large number of anti-corruption reforms implemented in different countries, there has been little research that empirically and systematically assesses the impact of these efforts.

Objectives: The main objective of this review is to identify what works in curbing corruption in the public sector, by meta-analyzing the findings of published and unpublished evaluations of different types of anti-corruption interventions in different countries. The focus of this review is administrative corruption, namely corrupt acts involving civil servants in their dealings with their superiors, during the implementation of public policies, or while interacting with the public for service delivery.

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Associations between national gambling policies and disordered gambling prevalence rates within Europe.

Int J Law Psychiatry

November 2014

Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Medford, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Policymakers and other interested stakeholders currently are seeking information about the comparative effectiveness of different regulatory approaches to minimising gambling-related harm. This study responds to this research gap by exploring associations between gambling policies and disordered gambling prevalence rates. We gathered information about gambling policies for thirty European jurisdictions and past-year prevalence rates for disordered gambling for twelve of these jurisdictions.

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