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Effect of a staffing strategy based on voluntary increase in working hours on quality of patient care in a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal

Curationis, 2009
Two of the issues facing the South African Health Care System are the shortage of nursing staff and a lack of adequate skills to provide quality patient care.
J. McIntosh, E.L. Stellenberg
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Optimizing Healthcare Delivery: A Model for Staffing, Patient Assignment, and Resource Allocation

Applied System Innovation, 2023
The healthcare industry has recently faced the issues of enhancing patient care, streamlining healthcare operations, and offering high-quality services at reasonable costs.
Ahmeed Yinusa, Misagh Faezipour
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A data‐driven method to predict service level for call centers

IET Communications, 2022
In call centers, the service level is an important metric to measure the reasonability of the staffing schedule. Traditional service level calculation methods are based on the queue theory, which has very strict restrictions and is not suitable for real ...
Chenyu Hou, Bin Cao, Jing Fan
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Integrating an academic management system with blockchain: A case study

Blockchain: Research and Applications, 2022
This paper reports the design, implementation, and experimental phases of the EU H2020 QualiChain pilot “Staffing the Public Sector—The Case of Portugal”.
Sérgio Guerreiro, João F. Ferreira, Tiago Fonseca, Miguel Correia   +3 more
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Impact of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative on delivery care choices in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background The Salud Mesoamérica Initiative (SMI) is a public-private collaboration aimed to improve maternal and child health conditions in the poorest populations of Mesoamerica through a results-based aid mechanism.
Bernardo Hernandez, Katie Panhorst Harris, Casey K. Johanns, Erin B. Palmisano, Rebecca Cogen, Maximilian G. Thom, Emily Linebarger, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Aruna M. Kamath, Joseph Camarda, Diego Rios-Zertuche, María Paola Zúñiga-Brenes, Pedro Bernal-Lara, Danny Colombara, Alexandra Schaefer, Benito Salvatierra, Julio César Mateus, Isabel Casas, Giovanni Flores, Emma Iriarte, Ali H. Mokdad   +20 more
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Develop a multi-dimensional model of couple therapy ecological crisis intervention centers consultants Welfare Organization (qualitative study focusing on reducing the desire to divorce and marital conflict) [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Farhang Mushavirah va Ravān/Darmānī, 2017
The population consists of all affiliated with the well-being of all typically comprise a central province that are approximately 200 consultant. In selecting participants in the qualitative part of the publicity was used.
ahmad khaki, k f, a m, m e, h s
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Effect of Training Program on Nurses' Performance and Health Outcomes for Patients with Diabetic Ketoacidosis [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2020
Background: Diabetic ketoacidosis is a life-threatening complication of diabetes, andis the most common cause of death. The effective management of patients with diabeticketoacidosis depends on a knowledgeable and skillful nurse who play a central role ...
Samar Faltas Marzouk Faltas, Monira Samir Abdelhady, Manal Saad Shaker   +2 more
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The extended roster quality staffing problem: addressing rosterquality variation within a staffing planning period

, 2020
Staffing and rostering are two interdependent optimization problems related to personnel planning. Where staffing concernsan organization’s personnel composition, personnel rostering aims to assign that staff to shifts while respecting a set ...
De Feyter, Tim, Komarudin, Guerry, Marie-Anne, Vanden Berghe, Greet   +3 more
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Implementing early mobilisation after knee or hip arthroplasty to reduce length of stay: a quality improvement study with embedded qualitative component

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2020
Background Models of care for managing total knee or hip arthroplasty (TKA, THA) incorporating early mobilisation are associated with shorter acute length-of-stay (LOS). Few studies have examined the effect of implementing early mobilisation in isolation,
Happy Chua, Bernadette Brady, Melissa Farrugia, Natalie Pavlovic, Shaniya Ogul, Danella Hackett, Dimyana Farag, Anthony Wan, Sam Adie, Leeanne Gray, Michelle Nazar, Wei Xuan, Richard M. Walker, Ian A. Harris, Justine M. Naylor   +14 more
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Does Geographic Location Affect the Quality of Care? The Difference in Readmission Rates Between the Border and Non-Border Hospitals in Texas

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2022
Dong Yeong Shin,1 Jongwha Chang,2 Zo H Ramamonjiarivelo,3 Mar Medina4 1Department of Public Health Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA; 2Department of Healthcare Administration, College of Business, Texas Woman’s University, Denton,
Shin DY, Chang J, Ramamonjiarivelo ZH, Medina M   +3 more
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