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BMC Family Practice, 2020 Background Visits in emergency departments and hospital admissions are common among nursing home (NH) residents and they are associated with significant complications. Many of these transfers are considered inappropriate.
Alexander Maximilian Fassmer +3 more
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Hospital Capacity Planning Using Discrete Event Simulation Under Special Consideration of the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We present a resource-planning tool for hospitals under special consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic, called babsim.hospital. It provides many advantages for crisis teams, e.g., comparison with their own local planning, simulation of local events, simulation of several scenarios (worst / best case).
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A Latent Survival Analysis Enabled Simulation Platform For Nursing Home Staffing Strategy Evaluation [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Nursing homes are critical facilities for caring frail older adults with round-the-clock formal care and personal assistance. To ensure quality care for nursing home residents, adequate staffing level is of great importance. Current nursing home staffing practice is mainly based on experience and regulation.
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A Flexible Mixed Integer Programming framework for Nurse Scheduling [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 In this paper, a nurse-scheduling model is developed using mixed integer programming model. It is deployed to a general care ward to replace and automate the current manual approach for scheduling. The developed model differs from other similar studies in that it optimizes both hospitals requirement as well as nurse preferences by allowing flexibility ...
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Multimodal Transformer for Nursing Activity Recognition [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 In an aging population, elderly patient safety is a primary concern at hospitals and nursing homes, which demands for increased nurse care. By performing nurse activity recognition, we can not only make sure that all patients get an equal desired care, but it can also free nurses from manual documentation of activities they perform, leading to a fair ...
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Teleoperated Magnetic Endoscopy: A Case Study and Perspective
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This perspective highlights the recent research efforts in robotic magnetic platforms for telesurgery and their translation to clinical settings for endoscopic procedures. To demonstrate this approach, this work also introduces an in vivo gastroscopy performed in a porcine model, during which an operator in Zurich, Switzerland, successfully controls a ...
Alexandre Mesot +8 more
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Evaluating the intervening factors in patient safety: focusing on hospital nursing staff
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2015 OBJECTIVE To evaluate intervening factors in patient safety, focusing on hospital nursing staff. METHOD The study is descriptive, with qualitative approach, excerpt from a larger study with analytical nature.
Roberta Meneses Oliveira +7 more
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Prior work has linked work stressors to asthma. However, research related to gender‐specific associations remains sparse and yielded mixed results. We aimed to address this gap. Methods We drew on cross‐sectional data from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey (individual‐level response rate = 79.7%).
Adrian Loerbroks +5 more
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Solving Nurse Scheduling Problem Using Constraint Programming Technique [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Staff scheduling is a universal problem that can be encountered in many organizations, such as call centers, educational institution, industry, hospital, and any other public services. It is one of the most important aspects of workforce management strategy and the one that is most prone to errors or issues as there are many entities should be ...
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Optimization Helps Scheduling Nursing Staff at the Long-Term Care Homes of the City of Toronto [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 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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