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Conflicting priorities: evaluation of an intervention to improve nurse-parent relationships on a Tanzanian paediatric ward. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Patient, or parent/guardian, satisfaction with health care provision is important to health outcomes. Poor relationships with health workers, particularly with nursing staff, have been reported to reduce satisfaction with care in Africa ...
Chandler, Clare IR, Manongi, Rachel N, Mwangi, Rose, Nasuwa, Fortunata R, Poulsen, Anja, Reyburn, Hugh   +5 more
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Scheduling chemotherapy appointments under uncertainty by considering different nursing care delivery schemes [PDF]

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal. 2024, 2022
The flexibility level allowed in nursing care delivery and uncertainty in infusion durations are very important factors to be considered during the chemotherapy schedule generation task. The nursing care delivery scheme employed in an outpatient chemotherapy clinic (OCC) determines the strictness of the patient-to-nurse assignment policies, while the ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes [PDF]

, 2011
Background Nurse staffing interventions have been introduced across countries in recent years in response to changing patient requirements, developments in patient care, and shortages of qualified nursing staff. These include changes in skill mix, grade
Butler, Michelle, Collins, Rita, Drennan, Jonathan, Halligan, Phil, O'Mathúna, Dónal, Schultz, Timothy   +5 more
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Health promotion of nursing staff in hospital environments [PDF]

Revista da Rede de Enfermagem do Nordeste, 2015
Objective: To analyze the scientific evidence of the strategies adopted by hospitals aimed at promoting the health of nursing workers. Methods: integrative review with data collected in electronic databases: Medline, Lilacs, Scielo, BDENF, Scopus and CINAHL, with the descriptors: Strategies; hospitals; Nursing and Health Promotion Team.
Leal, Laura Andrian, Camelo, Silvia Helena Henriques, Rocha, Fernanda Ludmilla Rossi, Vegro, Thamiris Cavazzani, Santos, Fabiana Cristina   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Mortality Rate Estimation and Standardization for Public Reporting: Medicare's Hospital Compare [PDF]

Journal of the American Statistical Association (2017), 112:519, 933-947, 2015
Bayesian models are increasing fit to large administrative data sets and then used to make individualized recommendations. For instance, Medicare's Hospital Compare webpage provides information to patients about specific hospital mortality rates for a heart attack or Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI).
arxiv   +1 more source

Supporting general hospital staff to provide dementia sensitive care: A realist evaluation [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0).Background: There are an increasing number of interventions to improve hospital care for ...
Bunn, Frances, Goodman, Claire, Handley, Melanie   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Enhancing the evaluation of pathogen transmission risk in a hospital by merging hand-hygiene compliance and contact data: a proof-of-concept study [PDF]

BMC Research Notes 8:426 (2015), 2016
Hand-hygiene compliance and contacts of health-care workers largely determine the potential paths of pathogen transmission in hospital wards. We explored how the combination of data collected by two automated infrastructures based on wearable sensors and recording (i) use of hydro-alcoholic solution and (ii) contacts of health-care workers provide an ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Investigating staff knowledge of safeguarding and pressure ulcers in care homes [PDF]

, 2016
Objective: To investigate whether nursing/care home staff regard pressure ulceration as a safeguarding issue; and to explore reporting mechanisms for pressure ulcers in nursing/care homes.
Kaye, Vicky, McCormick, Karen, Ousey, Karen, Stephenson, John   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Long‐term prognosis is associated with residual disease after neoadjuvant systemic therapy but not with initial nodal status

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
This long‐term follow‐up study determined survival rates in a Swedish national cohort of 417 patients with breast cancer who all had neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NAST). Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) was performed before NAST in clinically node‐negative and after NAST in clinically node‐positive patients.
L. Zetterlund, F. Celebioglu, T. Hatschek, J. Frisell, J. de Boniface   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality indicators applied in a nursing continuing education program of a high complexity university hospital from Brazil:I- attendance indicators

Bioscience Journal, 2017
Studies with nursing continuing education are common in the literature with a predominance of qualitative approaches. Quantitative assessments are punctual and focused on a single quality indicator, and few studies relate these indicators to the profile
Clesnan Mendes- Rodrigues, Eliana Borges Silva Pereira, Renata Lemos de Sousa Neto, Fabíola Alves Gomes, Durval Veloso da Silva, Arthur Velloso Antunes, Rosângela de Oliveira Felice, Guilherme Silva Mendonça, Paula Carolina Bejo Wolkers, Teresa Cristina Ferreira Alves, Rayany Cristina de Souza, Dayane Aparecida Cândida Félix   +11 more
doaj   +3 more sources