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Multi-objective layout optimization of hospital outpatient clinics based on NSGA II

Scientific Reports
This study utilizes an improved NSGA-II algorithm to conduct a multi-objective optimization of the hospital outpatient department layout. By simultaneously incorporating patient walking distance, hospital operating costs, patient waiting time, and ...
Yanlin Zhao, Jiamei Gu
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Comparison of temperature readings using infrared thermometers at three different sites: tympanic, forehead and temporal

Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2021
The aim of this study was to compare the body temperature measurements at tympanic, forehead and temporal sites using infrared thermometers. A total of 1576 consecutive visitors to Singapore General Hospital at two entry locations were included in this ...
Warren Weng Seng Fong, Shuan Khiag Yeo, Stephanie Man Chung Fook-Chong, Jie Kie Phang, Eugene Sim   +4 more
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management in the community: how could primary care team contribute?

BMC Family Practice, 2020
Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease commonly encountered in primary care. This study aimed to audit COPD care at primary care clinics of Hong Kong and to work out improvement strategies.
X. R. Catherine Chen, S. H. Leung, Y. C. Li   +2 more
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Benefits, challenges and contributors to the introduction of new hospital-based outpatient clinic pharmacist positions

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2022
Background: Pharmacists working within interprofessional teams in the outpatient setting are well placed to address medication-related problems before and after hospital admission. Therefore, exploration of these roles is warranted.
Centaine L. Snoswell, Amelia R. Cossart, Bernadette Chevalier, Michael Barras   +3 more
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Potentially inappropriate medication prescribed to elderly outpatients at a general medicine unit [PDF]

Einstein (São Paulo), 2011
Objective: To establish the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications prescribed for elderly patients, to identify the most commonly involved drugs, and to investigate whether age, sex and number of medications were related with the ...
Christine Grützmann Faustino, Milton de Arruda Martins, Wilson Jacob-Filho   +2 more
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A prescription survey in a hospital hypertension outpatient clinic [PDF]

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1997
Aims The objective of this study was to investigate drug utilization in the management of hypertension in Hong Kong. Methods We conducted a prescription survey to examine the use of antihypertensive drugs in a hypertension clinic in a regional hospital and the resulting expenditure incurred. The use of concurrent medications such as antidiabetic drugs
P K, Lee, R K, Li, J C, Chan, S, Chang, S C, Lee, B, Tomlinson, J A, Critchley   +6 more
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The appropriateness of antimicrobial use in the outpatient clinics of three hospitals in the Netherlands

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2020
Objectives Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs commonly have an in-hospital focus. Little is known about the quality of antimicrobial use in hospital outpatient clinics.
Annemieke K. van den Broek, Reinier M. van Hest, Kamilla D. Lettinga, Afra Jimmink, Fanny N. Lauw, Caroline E. Visser, Jan M. Prins   +6 more
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Effect of Educational Guidelines about Preventive Measures of Acute Gastroenteritis on Mothers' Knowledge and Reported Practices [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2021
Background: Acute gastroenteritis is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. Objective: currentstudy aimed to evaluate the effect of application of educational guidelines about preventivemeasures of acute gastroenteritis on mothers' knowledge and ...
Doaa Abdelgawad Said, Gehan EL Nabawy Ahmed, Mohamed Zoromba, Boshra Attia Mohammed   +3 more
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An evaluation of pharmacist activity in hospital outpatient clinics [PDF]

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 2021
AbstractMultidisciplinary healthcare teams embedded into outpatient clinics enhance patient outcomes; it is therefore important that when medications are a focus of treatment in these clinics that clinical pharmacists are included in the team. At the start of the 2019/2020 financial year, the Princess Alexandra Hospital added 13 clinic pharmacist ...
Centaine L. Snoswell, Megan J. Draper, Michael Barras   +2 more
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Hospital doctors’ and general practitioners’ perspectives of outpatient discharge processes in Australia: an interpretive approach

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Unnecessary delays in patient discharge from hospital outpatient clinics have direct consequences for timely access of new patients and the length of outpatient waiting times.
Edwin Kruys, Chiung-Jung (Jo) WU
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