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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Hospital Environments"”.
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Interference Measurements and Throughput Analysis for 2.4 GHz Wireless Devices in Hospital Environments
… are expected to become widespread throughout hospital environments for various applications. Consequently the medical community views wireless applications as ineludible and necessary. However, currently there exist regulations on the use of wireless devices in hospitals, and with the ever …
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A Comparison of Certified Nurse-Midwives in Two Locations: The Freestanding Birth Center and the Hospital
… have a higher likelihood of being used in hospitals than in FSBCs. Despite these significant differences in the use of medical technology across work location, the insights garnered from the interviews imply that midwives have a common childbirth philosophy no matter what their work …
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Digital health in Singapore : building an ecosystem conducive for innovation-driven enterprises
… technologies, and propagating innovation in hospital environments. The digital health innovation-driven enterprises ecosystem in Singapore is explored through an in-depth analysis of Singapore hospitals as a key stakeholder and an assessment of healthcare hackathons' suitability in addressing …
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HOW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, HUMAN BEHAVIOR, AND COST EFFICIENCY INFLUENCE HOSPITAL TASK ALLOCATION: A RESOURCE-BASED VIEW AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT PERSPECTIVE
… and Medicaid reimbursement levels, pressure hospitals to balance financial sustainability with delivering high-quality patient care. In response, hospitals are increasingly investing in Artificial Labor (AL) technologies to optimize operations. This study investigates factors influencing …
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Repurposing Antibacterial Compounds and Natural Products to Combat Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
… tract, and wound infections, particularly in hospitalized patients. This thesis explores two complementary strategies to address this challenge: natural product discovery and drug repurposing. The first study investigated two drug candidates, CRS3123 and ridinilazole, originally designed to …
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Medium Access Control and Networking Protocols for the Intra-Body Network
… radio frequency communication is problematic in hospital environments that are susceptible to interference in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) bands. Also, RF is inherently insecure as eavesdroppers can easily pick up signals. The Intra-Body Network (IBNet) proposes a novel …
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Supporting dynamic and distributed decision making in acute care environments: Insights from a cognitive ethnography
The way that medical decisions are carried out in hospital environments has undergone radical changes in recent years, in part as a result of the changing landscape of care. To make decisions, physicians are expected to keep abreast of a growing and changing body of medical and patient knowledge, …
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The Perception of Adaptive Leadership and Servant Leadership on Nurse Well-Being
… specifically relate to nurse well-being in hospital environments. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between registered nurses’ perceptions of adaptive leadership and servant leadership behaviors of their direct nurse managers and their …
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Embracing the biophilic flow
In the context of hospital architecture, the incorporation of biophilic elements, such as natural light, greenery, and organic materials, is crucial for enhancing patient outcomes and well-being. These elements not only evoke a sense of connection with nature but also contribute to stress …
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Play and playfulness among hospitalized children: A mixed method analysis
… childhood occupations. Children who are hospitalized are at risk for decreased opportunities to play and exude playfulness. The purpose of these three inter-related studies was to investigate how play occurred within the hospital and to evaluate if playfulness was different between the …
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Phenotypic and molecular characterization of coagulase negative staphylococci from pigs and humans in Lusaka province, Zambia.
… While CoNS have been primarily studied in hospital environments, data from community settings, particularly in Africa, remain scarce. This gap in knowledge hinders a comprehensive understanding of the epidemiology and challenges associated with CoNS infections in the region. The objective …
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Phenotypic and molecular characterization of coagulase negative staphylococci from pigs and humans in Lusaka province, Zambia.
… While CoNS have been primarily studied in hospital environments, data from community settings, particularly in Africa, remain scarce. This gap in knowledge hinders a comprehensive understanding of the epidemiology and challenges associated with CoNS infections in the region. The objective …
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The onset and alleviation of learned helplessness in older hospitalised people
… During the first stage a sample of older hospitalised people were randomly assigned to experimental and control conditions. Interventions included exposing participants to disempowering (non-contingent) and empowering (contingent) circumstances during a mealtime event as a means of …
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Examining patients’ satisfaction in Jordanian emergency departments through business process improvement implementation
… quality and quality of care provided in public hospitals are lower compared to other nations in the region and abroad. These studies, however, failed to utilize any standardized customer satisfaction tools. At the same little empirical research has attempted to investigate the link of business …
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Parâmetros assistenciais e procedimentos do sistema estomatognático e dos distúrbios da comunicação humana em um centro de terapia intensiva neurológico
… a neurological intensive care unit of a general hospital in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Methods: An observational, longitudinal and quantitative study was carried out using secondary data provided by the speech therapy service of a general hospital in the state of Bahia, Brazil, between July 2021 …
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Wireless sensor network for health monitoring
… health monitoring for both homecare and hospital environments. Current technological advances in sensors, power-efficient integrated circuits, and wireless communication have allowed the development of miniature, lightweight, low-cost, and smart physiological sensor nodes. These nodes are …
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A COMPARISON OF STRESS AND COPING FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES
… (n=9), receiving treatment for cancer at a hospital in the Midlands region of England in the UK and at a hospital in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used within a grounded theory approach (Glaser & Strauss, 1967), and included six …
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Oscillatory Flow As A Means Of Enhanced Species Separation: A Three Dimensional Time-accurate Cfd Analysis
… and to the implementation of the technology in hospital environments to provide life-support for patients under anesthesia. However, it is only in recent years that the underlying physics of oscillatory flow as applied to mass transfer have been understood and this may lead to promising …
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Modelling, analysis and design of MAC and routing protocols for wireless body area sensor networks.
… the actual link quality estimation for different hospital environments. For evaluation of the test-bed, we considered parameters including Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), Link Quality Indicator (LQI), packet reception and packet error rate. Finally, there is no standard under Internet …
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