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Monitoring the impact of the DRG payment system on nursing service context factors in Swiss acute care hospitals: Study protocol

GMS German Medical Science, 2014
[english] Aims: With this study protocol, a research program is introduced. Its overall aim is to prepare the instruments and to conduct the first monitoring of nursing service context factors at three university and two cantonal hospitals in Switzerland
Spirig, Rebecca, Spichiger, Elisabeth, Martin, Jacqueline S., Frei, Irena Anna, Müller, Marianne, Kleinknecht, Michael   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development of Acute Outreach Services in Aged Care Facilities (Nursing Homes): Using Telemedicine in Rural Areas

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Daniel Kam Yin Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Survey sabotage: Insights into reducing the risk of fraudulent responses in online surveys

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Validity is a key element of many forms of research—particularly surveys, which are often used in health professions education research. A survey must accurately measure what it is intended to measure to be considered valid. This is becoming increasingly difficult in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), where “bots” (short for robots) are ...
James Bonnamy, Bethany Carr, Michelle D. Lazarus, Clifford Connell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a theory of change to guide the design and implementation of a caregiver-centric support service

BMC Health Services Research
Background Set against the backdrop of a rapidly ageing population and growing emphasis on the importance of ageing-in-place, family members often assume the role of a caregiver.
Ling Ting Wu, George Frederick Glass, Esther Yin Hui Chew, Emmalene Joo Yong Ng, Ee Yuee Chan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performance of nurses in the bed management service of a teaching hospital

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objectives: to analyze the performance of nurses in the Bed Management service of a public teaching hospital. Methods: descriptive, qualitative research inspired by Dubois theoretical model. 32 participants from the bed management unit and care units of
Fabieli Borges, Elizabeth Bernardino, Marcelo Marcondes Stegani, Nelsi Salete Tonini   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sourcing and utilization of bodies of the deceased for medical education and research: An examination of West African universities

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Bodies of the deceased are important for training healthcare professionals in anatomy education, research, and clinical skills. While body donation programs exist in many countries around the world, few exist in Africa, likely due to strong religious convictions of the public, socioeconomic factors, and other difficulties.
Oheneba Boadum, John Ahenkorah, Joy Y. Balta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritization of general clinical competence indicators from nurses’ view employed in emergency wards

Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery, 2015
Introduction: Nursing as a clinical discipline is developing daily in emergency wards and health care system managers should assess and prioritize clinical competence indicators in these wards continuously.
Fatemeh Hasandoost, Atefeh Ghanbari Khanghah, Kobra Salamikohan, Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leili, Nastaran Norouzi Pareshkouh   +4 more
doaj  

Nurse Rostering with Genetic Algorithms [PDF]

Young Operational Research Conference 12, 1998, 2010
In recent years genetic algorithms have emerged as a useful tool for the heuristic solution of complex discrete optimisation problems. In particular there has been considerable interest in their use in tackling problems arising in the areas of scheduling and timetabling.
arxiv  

Secondary Use of Employee COVID-19 Symptom Reporting as Syndromic Surveillance as an Early Warning Signal of Future Hospitalizations [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Importance: Alternative methods for hospital utilization forecasting, essential information in hospital crisis planning, are necessary in a novel pandemic when traditional data sources such as disease testing are limited. Objective: Determine whether mandatory daily employee symptom attestation data can be used as syndromic surveillance to forecast ...
arxiv  

Predicting Hospital Re-admissions from Nursing Care Data of Hospitalized Patients [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
Readmission rates in the hospitals are increasingly being used as a benchmark to determine the quality of healthcare delivery to hospitalized patients. Around three-fourths of all hospital re-admissions can be avoided, saving billions of dollars. Many hospitals have now deployed electronic health record (EHR) systems that can be used to study issues ...
arxiv