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Green Operation Strategies in Healthcare for Enhanced Quality of Life

Healthcare, 2022
Healthcare services have now become a fundamental requirement for all individuals owing to rising pollution levels and shifting lifestyles brought on by fast modernization. The hospital is a specialized healthcare facility where doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals offer their services.
Albi Thomas, Suresh Ma, Ateekh Ur Rehman, Yusuf Siraj Usmani   +3 more
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Professional Quality of Life of Healthcare Workers in Hospital Emergency Departments

Behavioral Sciences, 2022
In previous publications, we have reported that professionals in emergency departments undergo high levels of stress according to the amounts of salivary biomarkers (α-amylase and cortisol). The stress seems to be counteracted by increased levels of dehydroepiandrosterone.
Daniel Pérez-Valdecantos, Alberto Caballero-García, Hugo J. Bello, David Noriega-González, Nora Palomar-Ciria, Alba Roche, Enrique Roche, Alfredo Córdova-Martínez   +7 more
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Depression and quality of life among Afghan healthcare workers: A cross-sectional survey study

BMC Psychology, 2023
Background According to the World Health Organization, approximately 280 million individuals worldwide suffer from depression. One occupational group that is more prone to mental health issues is healthcare workers (HCWs).
Abdul Qadim Mohammadi, Ahmad Neyazi, Vanya Rangelova, Bijaya Kumar Padhi, Goodness Ogeyi Odey, Molly Unoh Ogbodum, Mark D. Griffiths   +6 more
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Correlating physical activity and quality of life of healthcare workers [PDF]

BMC Research Notes, 2019
The purpose of the present study was to investigate healthcare workers' physical exercise levels linked to their quality of life. Healthcare workers' from all departments of a General hospital participated in the study. The instruments used for data collection regarding quality of life and physical exercise (Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and ...
Maria Saridi, Theodora Filippopoulou, Georgios Tzitzikos, Pavlos Sarafis, Kyriakos Souliotis, Despoina Karakatsani   +5 more
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Development and testing of the KERNset: an instrument to assess the quality of telephone triage in out-of-hours primary care services

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Telephone triage is a core but vulnerable part of the care process at out-of-hours general practitioner (GP) cooperatives. In the Netherlands, different instruments have been used for assessing the quality of telephone triage.
Marleen Smits, Ellen Keizer, Paul Ram, Paul Giesen   +3 more
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Case-studies of displacement effects in Dutch hospital care

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Under a constrained health care budget, cost-increasing technologies may displace funds from existing health services. However, it is unknown what services are displaced and how such displacement takes place in practice.
Joost Johan Godert Wammes, Geert Frederix, Paulien Govaert, Domino Determann, Silvia Evers, Aggie Paulus, Niek Stadhouders, Patrick Jeurissen, Wija Oortwijn, Eddy M. M. Adang   +9 more
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Measurement and documentation of quality indicators for the end-of-life care of hospital patients a nationwide retrospective record review study

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Quality of care at the end of life in hospitals is often perceived to be lower compared to the care that is provided to people who die in their own home.
F. M. Bijnsdorp, B. Schouten, A. K. L. Reyners, C. Wagner, A. L. Francke, S. M. van Schoten   +5 more
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Quality of information for quality of life: Healthcare big data analytics [PDF]

2015 Fifteenth International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), 2015
Business intelligence and analytics, and big data analytics have become increasingly important in describing the data sets and analytical techniques in software applications that are so large and complex. These two techniques have been used as analytics by several e-commerce communities.
GGT Dantanarayana, Tony Sahama, GN Wikramanayake   +2 more
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Impact of Nursing Resignations on Annual Recruitment Strategies in Sudair Region Hospitals, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Introduction: Many healthcare organisations are grappling with a critical issue of having critically low nurse staff levels. This leads to high workload stress, job dissatisfaction, and frustration among nurses and triggers a disruptive cycle of
Noor Fallaj T Almutaieri, Yousif Mohamed Abdallah, Habib Fallaj Almutairy, Abdelaziz Fallaj Almutairi, Muslet Khalid S Alotabibi, Zaki Alhumaidi F Almtairi, Hamed Ibrahim F Alutaieri, Zayed Abdullah J Almutairi   +7 more
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Quality of Care and Quality of Life: Patient/Healthcare Perspectives

Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 2009
Background: Patients with CF need attention, financial resources and energy for their daily, time consuming therapies to maintain an optimal health status. Our goal as healthcare providers (HP) is to offer the best care. This results in a heavy burden for the patients which impairs the quality of life (QoL) and may lead to poor adherence.
Armoni, S., Rony, R.Y., Kerem, E.
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