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Persistence and cycles in US hours worked [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper analyses monthly hours worked in the US over the sample period 1939m1 – 2011m10 using a cyclical long memory model; this is based on Gegenbauer processes and characterised by autocorrelations decaying to zero cyclically and at a hyperbolic ...
Caporale, GM, Gil-Alana, LA
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Factors associated with undertriage in patients classified by the need to visit a hospital by telephone triage: a retrospective cohort study

open access: yesBMC Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background Prehospital telephone triage stratifies patients into five categories, “need immediate hospital visit by ambulance,” “need to visit a hospital within 1 hour,” “need to visit a hospital within 6 hours,” “need to visit a hospital within 24 hours,
Ryota Inokuchi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Utilization characteristics of an advanced pediatric emergency center: a single center study over 2 years [PDF]

open access: yesPediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2020
Purpose Advanced pediatric emergency centers play an important role in professional treatment of children. We analyzed the characteristics of children who visited an advanced pediatric emergency center. Methods The study enrolled children younger than 15
Sukwon Shin, Heejoung Choi, Bogeum Choi
doaj   +1 more source

Does time of surgery influence the rate of false-negative appendectomies? A retrospective observational study of 274 patients

open access: yesPatient Safety in Surgery, 2018
Background Multiple disciplines have described an “after-hours effect” relating to worsened mortality and morbidity outside regular working hours. This retrospective observational study aimed to evaluate whether diagnostic accuracy of a common surgical ...
Kirit Singh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is there an increased complications rate in after-hours colorectal surgery? [PDF]

open access: yesModern Medicine, 2019
When a surgical team is dealing with an after-hours colorectal surgery, they are actually confronting with a chain of elements and events, some linked to the patient and severity of the surgical case, others related to the medical team ability to ...
Bogdan Socea   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Access to after-hours primary care: a key determinant of children’s medical home status

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background The medical home (MH) model has been promoted by both the federal and state governments in the United States in recent years. To ascertain American children’s MH status, many studies have relied on a large set of survey items, posing a ...
Bing Han, Peggy Guey-Chi Chen, Hao Yu
doaj   +1 more source

Safety, efficiency and health-related quality of telephone triage conducted by general practitioners, nurses, or physicians in out-of-hours primary care: a quasi-experimental study using the Assessment of Quality in Telephone Triage (AQTT) to assess audio-recorded telephone calls

open access: yesBMC Family Practice, 2020
Background To explore and compare safety, efficiency, and health-related quality of telephone triage in out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC) services performed by general practitioners (GPs), nurses using a computerised decision support system (CDSS), or ...
D. S. Graversen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protocol for a mixed methods exploratory investigation into the role and contribution of the healthcare assistant in out-of-hours palliative care

open access: yesBMC Nursing, 2021
Background Most people spend their last year of life at home, with many wishing to die there, but patients may need access to care after hours. Out-of-hours palliative care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams including Health Care Assistants (HCA ...
Felicity Hasson   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do the care process and survival chances differ in patients arriving to a level 1 Indian trauma center, during-hours and after-hours?

open access: yesJournal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2019
Introduction: Trauma systems vary in performance during different time periods and may affect the patient outcomes, especially in resource-limited settings. The present study was undertaken to study the pattern, epidemiological profile, processes of care
Kapil Dev Soni   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient safety culture in out-of-hours primary care services in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional survey

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2018
Objective: To examine patient safety culture in Dutch out-of-hours primary care using the safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ) which includes five factors: teamwork climate, safety climate, job satisfaction, perceptions of management and communication ...
Marleen Smits   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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