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Waiting Room Rounding to Decrease LWBS
<p>Problem: Patients who leave the emergency department without being seen (LWBS) by a medical provider have been identified as a safety and liability risk as well as a profit loss. One high volume urban teaching emergency department (ED) in southern California has struggled with a percentage of …
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Tracking Patient Belongings to Decrease Cost
<p>A level II trauma center in Northern California reimbursed $21,313 in 2013 for lost patient belongings. Attempts were made to reveal what caused patient belongings loss. After surveying 28 RNs and 9 CNAs on a medical-surgical unit, interviewing other staff, and analyzing incident reports, a root …
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Relamping hotel guestrooms to decrease operating costs
The purpose of this study was to determine if the hotel industry could reduce a portion of its operating costs used for unnecessary lighting expenses. The study was conducted at the Donaldson Brown Center in Blacksburg, Virginia with 32 hotel guests participating. Data was collected to determine …
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Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities
… <p><strong>Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities for the Underserved Population</strong></p> <p>My project aims to improve access to healthcare for the underserved population living in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District by reconnecting them to a Primary Care Provider …
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Decrease Arrival to CT Time to Improve Stroke Outcomes
… <p>The specific goal of the project is to decrease the arrival to t-PA treatment times to <45 minutes in > 50% of the cases. The decreased treatment time will prove to shorten the average length of stay on average by two days (Audebert & Sobesky, 2014). The goal will be accomplished by …
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Attendance Matters! We Must Decrease Student Truancy and Absenteeism
… The goal of this change plan is to significantly decrease student truancy and absenteeism in a district to increase their instructional time.</p> <p>The overarching challenge is for school districts to be able to proactively manage student attendance to ensure children are in school on a regular …
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Can Representativeness Decrease Youth Violence in Juvenile Detention Facilities?
<p>Using the theory on Representative Bureaucracy, this study considers the minority representative role, which suggests that administrators who are minorities are more inclined to represent minority interests. This study examined whether officers perceive themselves as advocates based on shared …
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Mechanical bracing solutions to decrease tibial slippage of Anklebot
… a measure of slippage. The exoskeleton did not decrease slippage primarily due to high tolerances in the inversion-eversion joint at the heel of the shoe. The waist support system decreases slippage when enough bungees were attached. Further work on the waist support system is recommended.
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Mechanisms of High Glucose-induced Decrease in β-cell Function
… a hallmark of type 2 diabetes, can decrease β-cell function and mass (β-cell glucotoxicity); however, the mechanisms are incompletely understood. The objective was to examine the mechanisms of β-cell glucotoxicity using in vivo and ex vivo models. The hypothesis is that oxidative …
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Teaching Problem-Solving to Improve Family Functioning and Decrease Suicidality
Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults. Numerous risk factors have been identified in the literature, including poor problem-solving skills, poor family functioning, excessive risk-taking behaviors, legal difficulties, and school difficulties. Deficits in …
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Developing Ostomy Educational Tools To Decrease Hospital Length Of Stay
… project “Developing Ostomy Educational Tools To Decrease Hospital Length Of Stay” is aimed at reducing length of stay (LOS) for patients undergoing elective ostomy surgery from the current twelve days (Kirkland-Kyhn, 2017), to less than five days. Methods included use of a Pre-Ostomy Survey, …
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Factors Which Decrease the Search Time of an Aircraft Crash
<p>The purpose of this study is to determine what procedures a general aviation aircrew can perform during the course of flight to minimize the search time required to locate the aircraft's crash site in the event of aerial disaster. This study will also serve to quantify the extent each procedure …
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Strategies to Decrease Incidence of Fatty Liver in Dairy Cows
… used to explore aspects of dietary strategies to decrease lipid accumulation in the liver after parturition. In experiment 1, 75 cows (30 primiparous) were fed controlled-energy, high-forage (CEHF) diets or were overfed energy (OVERFED) from dry-off to parturition, or CEHF for the first 40 d after …
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Does thyroid sparing total laryngectomy decrease the risk of hypothyroidism?
Introduction Thyroid lobectomy is recommended with total laryngectomy for laryngeal cancer in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines. However, it is associated with a 32-89% risk of hypothyroidism, which represents a problem especially for patients without access to thyroid …
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Localized HB-EGF signaling and Connexin43 decrease in the myocardium
Growth factor signaling can affect tissue remodeling through autocrine and paracrine mechanisms. Recent evidence indicates that hypertrophic signaling in cardiomyocytes is induced through transactivation of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor by heparin-binding EGF (HB-EGF). Here it is shown …
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Innovative hydrogen station operation strategies to increase availability and decrease cost
Major industry, government, and academic teams have recently published visions and objectives for widespread use of hydrogen in order to enable international energy sector goals such as sustainability, affordability, reliability, and security. Many of these visions emphasize the important and …
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Navigation Aids In Route Training: Increase Navigation Speed, Decrease Route Retention?
… but the use of the aids would significantly decrease the retention of the route navigated. The findings of this study support the hypotheses. The results suggest that participants that followed a confederate and participants that were given verbal directions were quicker and made fewer errors …
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Utilizing art therapy journaling to decrease insomnia and promote sleep hygiene
… improved and components of insomnia symptoms decreased as a result of the CBT practice in conjunction with utilizing art therapy journaling. Although the anticipated changes did not prove to be statistically significant in all parameters of the research; the insomnia distress score and total …
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Population strategies to decrease sodium intake : a global cost-effectiveness analysis
Excessive sodium consumption is both prevalent and very costly in many countries around the world. Recent research has found that more than 90% of the world's adult population live in countries with mean intakes exceeding the World Health Organization's recommendation, and that more than a million …
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