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Effects of an increase in emergency cases with difficulties in transport to hospital during the COVID‐19 pandemic on postoperative short‐term outcomes of colorectal perforation: A study based on the National Clinical Database

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
In 2022, emergency cases with difficulties in transport markedly increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic, but had little effect on short‐term outcomes of colorectal perforation. These data suggest that the emergency system for patients with colorectal perforation was largely maintained during the pandemic in Japan, with no evidence indicating a serious ...
Shimpei Ogawa, Hideki Endo, Masahiro Yoshida, Tomomitsu Tsuru, Michio Itabashi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Hideki Ueno, Ken Shirabe, Taizo Hibi, Akinobu Taketomi, Norihiko Ikeda, Masaki Mori   +12 more
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Improvement in nurse staffing ratios according to policy changes: a prospective cohort study

BMC Nursing
Background Since 1999, reimbursements for nursing services for inpatients have been paid differentially according to the nurse staffing ratios in Korea. However, differentiated nursing fees are insufficient for nurse staffing; thus, steps have been taken
Yunmi Kim, Kyounga Lee, Minho Jung
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Analysis of hospital costs for robotic and open pancreatectomy incurred during the implementation of a robotic pancreatectomy program at a cancer center

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
In this matched cohort study, total costs associated with robotic pancreatectomy were significantly lower than those associated with open pancreatectomy. High intraoperative costs associated with robotic pancreatectomies can be mitigated by other hospital related factors such as length of stay, number of medication prescriptions, and standardization of
Heather G. Lyu, Yuki Hirata, Pamela W. Lu, Jess E. Maxwell, Rebecca A. Snyder, Michael P. Kim, Hop Tran Cao, Ching‐Wei D. Tzeng, Matthew H. G. Katz, Naruhiko Ikoma   +9 more
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Mission‐centric decision support in cybersecurity via Bayesian Privilege Attack Graph

Engineering Reports, Volume 4, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
We propose a mission‐centric approach to assessing the risks of cyber attacks on the organization's mission and provide decision support to network security administrators. Our approach uses a unique stochastic model that connects vulnerability impacts to the mission's security requirements and allows selecting the most resilient configuration of ...
Michal Javorník, Martin Husák
wiley   +1 more source

ClimateQUAL® and Thinklets: Using ClimateQUAL® with Group Support Systems to Facilitate Discussion and Set Priorities for Organizational Change at Criss Library

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2013
Objective – This article discusses a series of actions taken by the Criss Library at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to implement organizational change, using the ClimateQUAL® survey and facilitated discussions with ThinkTank™ group decision software.
Nora Hillyer, Audrey DeFrank
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The Safer Nursing Care Tool as a guide to nurse staffing requirements on hospital wards: observational and modelling study

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2020
Background: The Safer Nursing Care Tool is a system designed to guide decisions about nurse staffing requirements on hospital wards, in particular the number of nurses to employ (establishment).
Peter Griffiths, Christina Saville, Jane E Ball, Rosemary Chable, Andrew Dimech, Jeremy Jones, Yvonne Jeffrey, Natalie Pattison, Alejandra Recio Saucedo, Nicola Sinden, Thomas Monks   +10 more
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Cloud‐Based Control System with Sensing and Actuating Textile‐Based IoT Gloves for Telerehabilitation Applications

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Using cloud computing technology, a telerehabilitation application allows patients to perform exercises remotely. Sensor data from a textile‐based IoT glove is processed in the cloud and transmitted as exercise commands to an actuating T‐IoT glove worn by patients.
Kadir Ozlem, Cagatay Gumus, Ayse Feyza Yilmaz, Asli Tuncay Atalay, Ozgur Atalay, Gökhan Ince   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens,
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Lellis, Federica De Cordova, Erica Briozzo   +3 more
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Relationship between nurses’ working shifts with human resources productivity

Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery, 2013
Introduction: Nurses play a fundamental role on continuity of care and health promotion and affect ‎organizational utilization. Awareness of nurses viewpoint on relationship between working shifts ‎and human resource utilization provides the ...
Kamran Hajinabi, Amir Ashkan Nasiripoor, Parviz Zahedkar, Fardin Mehrabian   +3 more
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Service capacity and disability resource integration: A strategic survey of immigrant and refugee‐serving agencies in Illinois

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants and refugees in the United States often face significant barriers in accessing social services, including mental health support, legal assistance, ESL or related education, housing, vocational training, workforce resources, transportation, and citizenship support. This article explores the strengths and challenges of community‐based
Rooshey Hasnain, Charles E. Hounmenou, Adrienne B. Smith, Timothy P. Johnson, Diane M. Kondratowicz, Jamie M. Taradash, Akash Rohidas Shinde, Francisco Alvarado   +7 more
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