Optimization Helps Scheduling Nursing Staff at the Long-Term Care Homes of the City of Toronto [PDF]
The City of Toronto Long Term Care Homes & Services (LTCH&S) division is one of the largest providers of long-term care in the Canadian province of Ontario, providing care to 2,640 residents at 10 homes across Toronto. Our collaboration with LTCH&S was initiated to facilitate the increasingly challenging task of scheduling nursing staff and reduce high
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Aim In response to the ageing population and shortage of human resources for nursing care, China is piloting internet‐based nursing services (nurses who provide this care are called online nurses).
Baosheng Zhao+6 more
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Bi-directional personalization reinforcement learning-based architecture with active learning using a multi-model data service for the travel nursing industry [PDF]
The challenges of using inadequate online recruitment systems can be addressed with machine learning and software engineering techniques. Bi-directional personalization reinforcement learning-based architecture with active learning can get recruiters to recommend qualified applicants and also enable applicants to receive personalized job ...
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Background & Aims: The work environment of healthcare providers and hospitals is constantly exposed to tremendous work pressure, complexity, and chaos.
F Hajibabaee+4 more
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A Study for Evaluation of Patient Safety Culture in Nursing Services
OBJECTIVE: This survey was a comparative and descriptive study performed to evaluate patient safety culture in nursing services and to determine the affecting factors of two private hospital settings.
Anita Karaca, Hediye Arslan
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An Analytics-based Decision Support System for Resource Planning under Heterogeneous Service Demand of Nursing Home Residents [PDF]
Nursing homes (NHs) are critical healthcare infrastructures for caring frail older adults with 24/7 formal care and personal assistance. Adequate NH resource planning is of great importance to ensure desired quality of care and resident outcomes yet challenging.
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Ambient Assisted Living technologies from the perspectives of older people and professionals [PDF]
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Ambient Intelligence technologies are providing support to older people in living an independent and confident life by developing innovative ICT-based products, services, and systems. Despite significant advancement in AAL technologies and smart systems, they have still not found the way into the nursing home of the ...
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Home health care planning with considering flexible starting/ending points and service features [PDF]
One of the recently proposed strategies in health systems is providing services to patients at home, improving the service quality, besides reducing the health system costs. In the real world, some services, such as biological tests or blood sampling, force the nurses to start or end his/her route from/at the laboratory instead of the depot, changing ...
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Cybercrime and You: How Criminals Attack and the Human Factors That They Seek to Exploit [PDF]
Cybercrime is a significant challenge to society, but it can be particularly harmful to the individuals who become victims. This chapter engages in a comprehensive and topical analysis of the cybercrimes that target individuals. It also examines the motivation of criminals that perpetrate such attacks and the key human factors and psychological aspects
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Objective The study objective was to estimate the budget impact of funding a standardized education and exercise therapy program, Good Life with osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) for people with hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) waiting for total joint replacement (TJR) consultation in a universal publicly insured health care system in Canada.
Darren R. Mazzei+4 more
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