Physician-reported outcomes associated with collaboration between home healthcare institutions and after-hours house-call services in Japan [PDF]
BMC Primary CareBackground In Japan, home healthcare is a system in which physicians regularly visit patients at home to provide medical care. Additionally, the physicians are required to be available for 24-hour emergency home visits upon patient request.
Yu Sun +5 more
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The spillover effect of after-hours electronic communication on nurses’ cyberloafing: the mediating role of psychological contract breach [PDF]
BMC Nursing, 2023 Background Considerable research has investigated the influencing factors of cyberloafing in the workplace. However, few studies have focused on the antecedents in non-work fields, especially for nurses.
Na Zhang +3 more
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Can’t Disconnect Even After-Hours: How Work Connectivity Behavior After-Hours Affects Employees’ Thriving at Work and Family [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 As more organizations adopt telecommuting or working from home, the work-connected behavior of their employees during non-working hours increases, weakening the boundary between work and family.
Yang Yang, Rui Yan, Yan Meng
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Utilisation of after-hours telephone support in a home-based hospice service [PDF]
BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background After-hours support from hospice providers is instrumental to patients with serious illness who choose to remain at home, particularly at end of life.
Poh-Heng Chong +3 more
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Differential Effects of Proactive and Reactive Work Connectivity Behavior After-Hours on Well-Being at Work: A Boundary Theory Perspective [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study examines the differential impact of proactive and reactive work connectivity behaviors on job well-being, drawing from the perspective of boundary theory. The increasing popularity of work connectivity behavior after-hours (WCBA) has attracted
Lingling Li, Guanfeng Shi, Xiong Zheng
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Whether the start time of elective lung surgery impacts perioperative outcomes and cost?
Frontiers in Surgery, 2022 BackgroundFatigue and the long work hours of surgeons have attracted increasing concern in recent years. We aimed to explore whether starting time was associated with perioperative outcomes and cost for elective lung surgery.MethodsA retrospective study ...
Gu-Ha A-Lai +6 more
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Effects of time and day of admission on the outcome of critically ill patients admitted to ICU [PDF]
Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2016 Background: Studies have shown that patients admitted to hospitals on weekends and after-hours experience worse outcome than those admitted on weekdays and daytime hours. Although admissions of patients to intensive care units (ICUs) occur 24 hours a day,
Jose Orsini +6 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 Large animal teaching hospitals often struggle to maintain consistent teaching caseloads, which are affected by seasonal variations, economic pressures, increased abilities of local large animal practices to hospitalize large animals, and client ...
Meggan T. Graves +2 more
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Experiences of out-of-hours task-shifting from GPs: a systematic review of qualitative studies
BJGP Open, 2021 Background: The current GP workforce is insufficient to manage rising demand in patient care within out-of-hours (OOH) primary care services. To meet this challenge, non-medical practitioners (NMPs) are employed to fulfil tasks traditionally carried out ...
Emily Lyness +3 more
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Perceptions of a night float system for intern doctors in an internal medicine program: an Asian perspective [PDF]
Korean Journal of Medical Education, 2019 Long duty hours have been associated with significant medical errors, adverse events, and physician “burn-out”. An innovative night float (NF) system has been implemented in our internal medicine program to reduce the negative effects of long duty hours ...
Benjamin Yong-Qiang Tan +8 more
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