Disease relevance of Needs Assessment

• Their importance is underestimated in health needs assessment exercises, which are based on NHS consultation rates or reporting of chronic illness [1].
• HIV, STD and hepatitis prevention among women in methadone maintenance: a qualitative and quantitative needs assessment [2].

Psychiatry related information on Needs Assessment

• Native Americans For Community Action, Inc. (NACA) implemented a community-wide mental health needs assessment in Northern Arizona using bilingual interviewers recruited from the local community [3].

High impact information on Needs Assessment

• METHODS: Retrospective analysis of routinely collected data, including the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Barthel Index, and Northwick Park Dependency Score and Care Needs Assessment (NPDS/NPCNA), which provides a generic estimation of dependency, care hours. and weekly cost of continuing care in the community [4].
• INTERVENTIONS: A modified Society of Critical Care Medicine Family Needs Assessment instrument was used [5].
• The Substance Abuse Monitor is a comprehensive community-based addictions information system that forms the basis for an innovative approach to community needs assessment [6].
• These differences provide a needs assessment to identify curricular components for an intervention to permit anabolic steroid use [7].
• All received a brief needs assessment interview in addition to the standard ASAP evaluation protocol [8].

Biological context of Needs Assessment

• We describe a model, using routinely available data, to provide health and social information to all general practices in an English Health Authority (South & West Devon, population 586,000, containing 103 general practices) to inform practice-based needs assessment [9].
• The occupational and environmental medicine gap in the family medicine curriculum: needs assessment in South Carolina. Part I [10].

Associations of Needs Assessment with chemical compounds

• To test this hypothesis, a sample of 2,142 college students from 10 midwestern postsecondary educational facilities responded to the Alcohol and Other Drug Use Needs Assessment Survey in the spring of 1990 [11].
• Community care in South Thames (West) Region: is needs assessment working [12]?
• This needs assessment was used to plan an education initiative called "Action Nutrition." SCREEN, a 15-item nutritional risk screening instrument, demographic data, participation in current recreation programs, and frequency of visits to the center were included in this survey [13].
• Latex sensitivity in Washington State acute care hospitals. A needs assessment and survey of awareness of the issues [14].
• The Ancillary Glucose Testing Program redeveloped by the team offers a model for active needs assessment, participation, quality assurance, ongoing improvement, and laboratory/nursing cooperation that can be applied to any ancillary testing program [15].

Gene context of Needs Assessment

• Physician and patient perceptions in COPD: the COPD Resource Network Needs Assessment Survey [16].
• Part 1, discusses the needs assessment; Part 2, the five key elements of curriculum; and Part 3 details a clinical guide to the OEM patient [10].
• A comprehensive needs assessment questionnaire for all SLE patients could help providers manage protocols more effectively [17].
• An educational needs assessment of children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis [18].
• Lung cancer health care needs assessment: patients' and informal carers' responses to a national mail questionnaire survey [19].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Needs Assessment

• AIM: To develop a conversion formula to translate information derived from the NPDS into a generic assessment of care needs in the community -- the Northwick Park Care Needs Assessment (NPCNA) -- and to evaluate its potential as a directly costable measure of outcome in rehabilitation [20].
• In spring 1995 a postal survey was conducted among all UK hospices and specialist palliative care in-patient units (n = 203) eliciting factual information concerning needs assessment and contracting, together with perceptions and evaluations of the local impact of the NHS reforms [21].

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