Predicting Length of Stay Across Hospital Departments
The length of hospital stay and its implications have a significant economic and human impact. As a consequence, the prediction of that key parameter has been subject to previous research in recent years. Most previous work has analysed length of stay in
Jesus Manuel Puentes Gutierrez +3 more
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A Pan-Canadian Narrative Review on the Protocols for COVID-19 and Canadian Emergency Departments
First described in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, The World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a global pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Canada identified its first positive COVID-19 patient on January 25th, 2020.
Sebastian Diebel, Eve Boissonneault
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Resilience of hospital staff facing COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Israel
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional burden on already strained healthcare systems worldwide, intensifying the responsibility and burden of healthcare workers.
Daniel Trotzky +20 more
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Night-Time Noise and Sleep Quality in an Internal Medicine Ward in Portugal: An Observational Study
Introduction: Hospitals should provide a quiet environment to promote patient healing and well-being. However, published data indicates that World Health Organization’s guidelines are frequently not met.
Mariana Alves +8 more
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SEFH National Survey-2019: general characteristics, staffing, material resources and information systems in Spain’s hospital pharmacy departments [PDF]
Objective: To publicize the results regarding the general characteristics, human resources, materials and information systems of Spanish hospital pharmacy departments arising from SEFH’s 2019 Survey on the Situation of Spanish Hospital Pharmacy ...
Montserrat Pérez-Encinas +5 more
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2019 SEFH National Survey: service portfolio, care activities, education and research in Spain’s hospital pharmacy departments [PDF]
Objective: To report on the results obtained from the 2019 SEFH National Survey regarding the service portfolio, care activities, training programs and research work of Spanish hospital pharmacy departments.Method: In March 2019, SEFH designed and
Montserrat Pérez-Encinas +5 more
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Ethnic inequalities in hospital admissions in England: an observational study
Background Ethnic inequalities in health are well-known and partly explained by social determinants such as poorer living and working conditions, health behaviours, discrimination, social exclusion, and healthcare accessibility factors.
Jakob Petersen +2 more
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The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant damage to global healthcare systems. Previous studies regarding COVID-19’s impact on outpatient numbers focused only on a specific department, lacking research data for multiple departments in general hospitals ...
Xiaojing Hu, Hongjun Fang, Ping Wang
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Job Satisfaction Among the Nurses of Makueni District Hospital, Kenya [PDF]
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the level of job satisfaction among the nurses of Makueni District Hospital. This was necessitated by the high nurse staff turnover from the facility and a myriad of complains from various departments.
Mathulu, A. W. (Anthony) +1 more
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The aim of this study is to analyze patient movement patterns between hospital departments to derive the underlying intra-hospital movement network, and to assess if movement patterns differ between patients at high or low risk of colonization.
Hannan Tahir +11 more
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