ACCEPTABILITY AND APPROPRIATENESS OF A CLINICAL PATHWAY FOR MANAGING ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN CANCER PATIENTS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY OF STAFF PERSPECTIVES

Acceptability and appropriateness of a clinical pathway for managing anxiety and depression in cancer patients: a mixed methods study of staff perspectives

Abstract Background Clinical pathways (CPs) can improve health Serums outcomes, but to be sustainable, must be deemed acceptable and appropriate by staff.A CP for screening and management of anxiety and depression in cancer patients (the ADAPT CP) was implemented in 12 Australian oncology services for 12 months, within a cluster randomised controll

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Adaptive search area for fast motion estimation

In this paper a new method for determining the search area for motion estimation algorithm based on block matching is suggested.In the proposed method the search area is adaptively found for each block of a frame.This search area is Display Frame similar to that of the full search (FS) algorithm but smaller for most blocks of a frame.Therefore, the

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