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Experiences and perspectives of older adults in nursing homes and their families participating in advance care planning: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care
Background Against the backdrop of an increasingly aging global population, improving the quality of life and end-of-life care for older adults has become a critical public health concern.
Yanping Li   +3 more
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The intersections of palliative care and homelessness in social policy: A content analysis of Canadian policy documents

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care
Background Palliative care for people experiencing homelessness (PEH) is a social issue of increasing importance. Policymakers are best positioned to lead societal responses by naming the issue in policy documents, allocating resources to address ...
Jeffrey J. Walsh   +5 more
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Help us make a better flow in everyday life - family needs in home-based pediatric palliative care: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care
Background Pediatric palliative care focuses on optimizing the quality of life for children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families. Home-based pediatric palliative care is often recommended as the preferred model of care. To
Linda J. Martinsen   +3 more
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Designing a fuzzy system for lung disease diagnosis based on spirometry [PDF]

open access: yesطب کار, 2016
Introduction: Nowadays, air pollution, occupational and industrial harmful exposure caused the increasing prevalence of lung diseases. The pulmonary function testing such as spirometry plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of lung ...
firuze ebrahimpoor   +4 more
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Evaluation of work-related accidents in Sari forests exploitation workers [PDF]

open access: yesطب کار, 2013
Background: The exploitation of forests, which generally involve combinations of natural hazards, could damage the health and safety of forest workers.
MB Khodaei, MK Eraghi, A Eghtesadi
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Evaluation of workers-related factors about using of hearing protection devices in textile factories, based on planned behavior theory [PDF]

open access: yesطب کار, 2013
Background: Noise is one of the detrimental factors of industrial health. Noise induced hearing loss is one the most occupational disease in the world.
mohamad ali morowaty   +3 more
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Risk assessment of musculoskeletal disorder by RULA method, and effect evaluation of ergonomic training on tailor working conditions [PDF]

open access: yesطب کار, 2013
Background: Sawing job is one of the occupations that have high work-related musculoskeletal disorders prevalence because of repetitive tasks. The current study aimed to determine work-related musculoskeletal disorders and risk factor of this disorder in
Sayed Mohammad Jafari   +4 more
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Effectiveness of control measures to reduce the risk level of work-related hazards in one of Ceramic Industries [PDF]

open access: yesطب کار, 2013
Background: What-If is a systemic approach tool based on teamwork that enables to identify and assess systematic deviations in the work process, humanitarian performances and equipment defects by brainstorming ways.
Amirhossein khoshakhlagh   +3 more
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Relationship between assertiveness and reporting of job errors among nurses [PDF]

open access: yesطب کار, 2013
Background: Assertiveness skill helps to nurses for better their practice. Job errors are inevitable in nursing profession. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between assertiveness and reporting of job errors among nurses ...
Leili Borimnejad   +3 more
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Comparison of the situation of safety, hygiene and work conditions by a participatory ergonomics approach in a pharmaceutical company in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesطب کار, 2013
Background: Access of organizations to ergonomics, especially in developing countries is difficult. Therefore development of knowledge for application of ergonomics in job modification and productivity is necessary.
Farahnaz dastranj   +4 more
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