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Security, Violent Events, and Anticipated Surge Capabilities of Emergency Departments in Washington State

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017
Introduction: Over the past 15 years, violent threats and acts against hospital patients, staff, and providers have increased and escalated. The leading area for violence is the emergency department (ED) given its 24/7 operations, role in patient care,
Jonathan S. Weyand, Emily Junck, Christopher S. Kang, Jason D. Heiner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antileishmanial Activities of Carvacrol Nanoencapsulate in Biopolymeric Nanoparticles

Chemistry &Biodiversity, EarlyView.
The study obtained biopolymeric nanoparticles containing carvacrol (NPCar) and evaluated their anti‐leishmanial activity. NPCar obtained presented physicochemical characteristics due to its ideal nanometric size and zeta potential, and low polydispersity index.
Joyce Cordeiro Borges, Anne Beatriz Cunha Barros, Leonardo Lima Cardoso, Tatjana de Lima Souza Keesen, Luís André de Almeida Campos, Isabella Macário Ferro Cavalcanti, Elisângela Afonso de Moura Kretzschmar   +6 more
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Sofrimento e prazer no trabalho vivenciado pelas enfermeiras que trabalham em unidades de terapia intensiva em um hospital escola Feelings of suffers and pleasures that nurses lives at na intensive therapy unity in a universitary hospital

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 1999
O presente estudo teve por objetivo explicitar e compreender as Representações Sociais das enfermeiras acerca do trabalho em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI) e os modos de expressão do sofrimento e do prazer ligados a esse trabalho.
Helena Eri Shimizu, Maria Helena Trench Ciampone   +1 more
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A Component Based Heuristic Search method with Adaptive Perturbations for Hospital Personnel Scheduling [PDF]

Technical Report NOTTCS-TR-2007-4, University of Nottingham, UK,, 2006, 2008
Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. This paper presents a new component-based approach with adaptive perturbations, for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. The main idea behind this technique is to decompose a schedule into its components (i.e.
arxiv  

Effect of Mild to Moderate Hepatic Impairment on Valemetostat Pharmacokinetics: An Open‐Label, Phase I Study

Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development, EarlyView.
Abstract Valemetostat tosylate (valemetostat) is a dual inhibitor of enhancer of zeste homolog (EZH) 2 and EZH1, approved in Japan for the treatment of relapsed/refractory peripheral T‐cell lymphoma and adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma. This Phase I, open‐label study evaluated the pharmacokinetics and safety of a single 50‐mg oral dose of valemetostat in
Masaya Tachibana, Thuy Vu Craveiro, Thomas C. Marbury, Samuel Oberstein, George J. Atiee, Ben Tao, Takako Shimizu, Yvonne Lau, Malaz A. Abutarif   +8 more
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Compliance to topical anti-glaucoma medications among patients at a tertiary hospital in North India

Journal of Current Ophthalmology, 2018
Purpose: The present study aims to estimate the prevalence of non-compliance and improper drop administration technique among glaucoma patients and describe common obstacles to medication compliance. Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study, using
Ketaki Rajurkar, Suneeta Dubey, Parmatma Prasad Gupta, Denny John, Lokesh Chauhan   +4 more
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Components of hospital personnel preparedness to evacuate patients in disasters: a systematic review

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background During natural catastrophes, hospital staff members’ readiness for crisis management—particularly concerning patient evacuation and improving their safety—becomes paramount.
Shandiz Moslehi, Mohammad Masbi, Nader Noori, Fereshteh Taheri, Samira Soleimanpour, Sajjad Narimani   +5 more
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An Interactive Decision-Support Dashboard for Optimal Hospital Capacity Management [PDF]

arXiv
Data-driven optimization models have the potential to significantly improve hospital capacity management, particularly during demand surges, when effective allocation of capacity is most critical and challenging. However, integrating models into existing processes in a way that provides value requires recognizing that hospital administrators are ...
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Tackling Environmental Impact: A New Support Tool for Sustainable Healthcare Waste Management

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a novel framework integrating Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) and Material Flow Analysis (MFA) within the Deming Cycle framework to address this gap. While valuable tools, ERA and MFA offer limited perspectives on environmental impact when used alone.
Carlotta D'Alessandro, Katarzyna Szopik‐Depczyńska, Raffaella Taddeo, Katarzyna Cheba, Giuseppe Ioppolo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A flexible integer linear programming formulation for scheduling clinician on-call service in hospitals [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Scheduling of personnel in a hospital environment is vital to improving the service provided to patients and balancing the workload assigned to clinicians. Many approaches have been tried and successfully applied to generate efficient schedules in such settings.
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