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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Home Healthcare"”.
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Predictors of Re-Hospitalization for Home Healthcare Patients
… data for acute care re-hospitalization of home healthcare patients. Secondary data analysis using logistic regression was conducted on retrospective data from OASIS collected during the time period of July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007. This study was conducted in a Medicare certified Home …
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Understanding Technology Diffusion and Spatial Accessibility in the Home Healthcare Industry
<p>Home healthcare is becoming an important alternative to institutionalized care. It not only reduces costs but also increases health outcomes and patient satisfaction. However, the availability and efficiency of home healthcare services need to be improved as the aging population increases in the …
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Home Healthcare Patients Regarding End of Life Treatment Decisions
… conducted is the rapidly growing population of home healthcare patients.<br> The purpose of this study was to describe the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of home healthcare patients and to determine if a recent hospitalization makes a difference in their knowledge, attitudes or behaviors. …
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Negotiating Work-Family Conflict, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout in A Sample of Rural Home Healthcare Providers
… a more prevalent phenomenon in today's society. Home healthcare workers have been previously identified as an employment group that is susceptible to high levels of burnout and low levels of job satisfaction, yet work-family conflict concerns have yet to be examined. Particularly because of the …
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Evolutionary struggles of supply chain strategy in home-based health care delivery
As the healthcare industry in United States continues to be constrained by increasing costs, new delivery channels are coming into practice. One such channel is home healthcare. Home healthcare presents challenges on the basis of acceptability by the medical community, insurers and patients, …
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가정전문간호사의 직무스트레스와 근골격계 증상
… stress and musculoskeletal symptom of home healthcare nurses. For this propose, I used the questionnaire which asked home healthcare nurses working in domestic nursing business as registered at the home healthcare nurse association in 2010. 168 nurses responded to this questionnaires, a …
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Gesture Based Home Automation for the Physically Disabled
… while presenting a major recurring cost in home-healthcare. Augmented with a non-invasive wearable sensor system and home-automation equipment, the patient can regain a level of autonomy at a fraction of the cost of home nurses. A system which utilizes sensor fusion, low-power digital …
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GUARDIAN : automated patient monitoring system
… this thesis has the ability to provide doctors/healthcare professionals with 24-hour access to real-time patient information, as well as historical data of every one of their patients. A prototype automated patient monitoring system was constructed to demonstrate general telemedicine system …
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Chemical and biomedical sensors using two dimensional materials
… researchers have started to build easy-to-use in-home healthcare monitoring system such as wearable sweat sensors. In order to make such system practical, sensors need to combine high sensitivity, high selectivity, fast response time and small signal drift. The sensors also need to cover a wide …
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A New Process for Creating Design Briefs to Improve Design Innovations in Home Health Care
… are exploring opportunities for improving Home Health Care (HHC) provision, at a time when the demand for well-designed home healthcare products (HHCPs) and associated services is rapidly growing. Research into their approaches found that innovation strategies and techniques adopted by many …
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Barriers to the adoption of telemedicine as explained by the disruptive innovation framework
… to the widespread use of telemedicine in home healthcare and other applications of medicine. These barriers were further described and analyzed using the framework for disruptive technologies presented in Clayton Christensen' s The Innovator' s Dilemma. Although many studies assert that …
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Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem with Genetic Algorithms
The Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem (HHCRSP) is an NP-hard optimization problem that involves planning the routes and schedules of caregivers who provide in-home medical services. Despite the extensive use of metaheuristics in related routing problems, the HHCRSP has received …
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Changes in Functional Status of Home Health Cardiac Patients from Admission to Discharge
… diagnosis of cardiac disease in the home health setting. The independent variables of dyspnea and service were examined for the effect on discharge functional status while controlling for the effects of age, gender, race, admission functional status, primary and secondary diagnosis. A …