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Effect of ambient noise on indoor environments in a health care facility in Oman
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021Hospital-noise levels can induce physiological responses and affect sleep quality, which could contribute to cardiovascular-related health problems. Till date, high-resolution hospital noise exposure assessment studies have not received much attention in Oman.
Amoatey, Patrick +4 more
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Assessment of work environment health in a suburban nursing facility
2021Background: Developing and maintaining healthy work environments in healthcare organizations is vital to quality outcomes and optimized reimbursement. While the American Association of Critical Care Nurses' Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments are well established in the acute care setting, little is known about their ...
Wesley E. Cook +2 more
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Role of the environment in the transmission of Clostridium difficile in health care facilities
American Journal of Infection Control, 2013Recent data demonstrate that the contaminated hospital surface environment plays a key role in the transmission of Clostridium difficile. Enhanced environmental cleaning of rooms housing Clostridium difficile-infected patients is warranted, and, if additional studies demonstrate a benefit of "no-touch" methods (eg, ultraviolet irradiation, hydrogen ...
David J, Weber +3 more
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Assessing spatial accessibility to mental health facilities in an urban environment
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 2012Canadian provincial health systems are obligated to ensure access to health services for all citizens, based primarily on the principles of "universality" and "accessibility" which is enshrined in the Canada Health Act. Nevertheless, less than 40% of Canadian with mental health problems uses mental health services.
André, Ngamini Ngui, Alain, Vanasse
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Wireless sensor network for monitoring the health of healthcare facility environments
2015 9th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), 2015Continues health monitoring of healthcare facility environments is vital in maintaining their quality of service standards. This paper discuss a suitable hardware implementation using reconfigurable network nodes to setup such a network with monitoring facilities to measure carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, ammonia gas concentrations, light and
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Investigation on the Indoor Environment Quality of health care facilities in China
Building and Environment, 2018Abstract A one-year field measurement campaign was conducted in two healthcare facilities in China. Both the objective physical environment and subjective satisfactory survey data have been collected in inpatient and outpatient areas to evaluate the Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) of Chinese hospitals.
Yanchen Liu +4 more
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Health-promoting environments in U.S. medical facilities: Physician perceptions, DocStyles 2012
Preventive Medicine, 2014Medical facilities are natural leaders for health promotion because of their mission, influence, and reach. We sought to determine the frequency of physicians reporting supportive, health-promoting environments in their facility and identify characteristics of physicians and medical practices associated with support.We analyzed a sample of 1485 U.S ...
Ian M, Goldstein +3 more
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Facilities Design Focus for Health, Safety, and Environment: Compliance and Compliance Monitoring
SPE Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Conference, 1991ABSTRACT Shell Oil Company's goal to be an industry leader in HS&E has placed even greater emphasis on the design of its production facilities so they will meet or exceed not only all regulatory requirements, but Shell's very demanding internal design standards as well. In addition to the many traditional equipment and process design
F.S. Amato, L.R. Resweber, M.A. Jones
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American Journal of Infection Control, 2015
There are multiple treatment options for the control of legionellae in premise hot water systems. Water chemistry plays a role in the efficacy of these treatments and should be considered when selecting a treatment. This study demonstrated the efficacy of copper-silver ionization (CSI) under alkaline water conditions in 2 health care facilities ...
David M, Dziewulski +4 more
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There are multiple treatment options for the control of legionellae in premise hot water systems. Water chemistry plays a role in the efficacy of these treatments and should be considered when selecting a treatment. This study demonstrated the efficacy of copper-silver ionization (CSI) under alkaline water conditions in 2 health care facilities ...
David M, Dziewulski +4 more
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Measuring the effects of acoustical environments on nurses in health-care facilities: A pilot study.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011This paper summarizes the methods and results of a pilot ecological study conducted in four health-care facilities (acute-care, community-care, and long-term-care). The objective was to consolidate and test tools for exposure assessment and the investigation of study outcomes, in particular, stress. Area and personal monitoring was performed.
Hind Sbihi +3 more
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