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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Hospital environment"”.
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The Application of Combined Heat and Power to a Hospital Environment
The University Hospital of Wales (UHW) is the premier teaching hospital in Wales and one of the largest medical facilities in Europe. This thesis has shown that installation of CHP at UHW has resulted in benefits to the hospital in reduced energy consumption and costs, and also a reduction in …
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Acoustic Method for Detection Large Pneumothoraxes in the Out-of-Hospital Environment
… assist in the detection of pneumothoraxes out-of-hospital, such as by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. A simple, portable, and accurate method of clinically detecting a pneumothorax would increase the quality of patient care in austere environments. We propose to evaluate the acoustic …
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Actions, Practices, and Workplace Conditions that Characterize High-Engagement Workgroups in a Hospital Environment
… outcomes.</p> <p>Between 2005-2010 The Community Hospital (TCH), part of a Healthcare Corporation in Valley Town, USA (pseudonym), assessed employee engagement using Gallup’s Q12 survey. Some groups scored in the top quartile and became the sample for the study. The purpose of this study was to …
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The Effect Of Job Strain In The Hospital Environment: Applying Orem's Theory Of Self Care
… relationships between job strain, the practice environment and the use of coping skills in order to assist in the prediction of nurses who are at risk for voluntary turnover. It was conducted at the level of the individual nurse employee in order to better understand the health consequences …
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Measuring hospital efficiency using DEA an investigation into the relationship between scale and efficiency within the South African private hospital environment
… Analysis (DEA) to a set of South African private hospitals over the three year period from 2007 to 2009. As part of the investigation, this paper provides a description of the current research into scale and efficiency with a focus on definition and measurement. It also provides an introduction to …
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An Exploration of Leadership Experiences and Challenges of Junior Female Managers in a Rural Hospital Environment, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… of junior female managers at Tshilidzini Hospital in Vhembe District in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Qualitative method was used because it enabled the researcher to gain in-depth information about the challenges and experiences of junior female managers at Tshilidzini Hospital. This …
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Observational analysis study on the influence of the physical hospital environment on aggressive behaviour and the management thereof in an adult acute psychiatric admission unit
… to demonstrate that changes such as physical environmental change, intensive case management, increased staff training or skills reduce the levele of violence, as captures by number of incidents accuring in in-patient units.
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Development of situation recognition, environment monitoring and patient condition monitoring service modules for hospital robots
… in this thesis is interested to develop hospital robot modules which are able to perform the tasks of surveillance and patient monitoring in a hospital environment for four scenarios: Intruder detection, Patient behavioural analysis, Patient physical condition monitoring, and Environment …
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Constructing the Medical Voice: How doctors-in-training engage with communication challenges-a grounded theory of adapting
… learn to communicate in the real-world learning environment of the hospital. The purpose was to develop explanatory theory in relation to the research question: How do doctors-in-training engage with communication challenges in the hospital environment? Despite the increase in communication …
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An assessment of comprehensive dental treatment provided under general anaesthesia at Tygerberg Oral Health Centre
… the office settings and are best managed in the hospital theatre. The ability to treat children in the hospital environment in order to provide comprehensive dental care using general anaesthesia(GA) is a valuable option to the paediatric dentist, despite some degree of risk to the patient. …
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Factors Affecting the Rest of the Hospitalized Cardiac Patient
… which can promote and prevent the rest of the hospitalized cardiac patient. Literature was reviewed in the areas of patients' opinions about their hospitalization and pertinent concepts in medical and nursing literature regarding cardiac rest. A study was not found which polled cardiac patient …
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Avaliação das bactérias isoladas em amostras biológicas em neonatos internados na unidade de terapia intensiva no Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley de João Pessoa
… an infectious cause, this being affected in a hospital environment, where they are caused by a variety of microorganisms among which bacteria, are the main causes of these infections. The proper hospital environment as well as procedures there realized is predisposed to contract and even …
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A Mixed-Methods Exploration to Develop and Test the Alberta Cardiac Surgery Patient Experiences Survey
… core business. Many surveys that are used in the hospital setting have been designed to capture the experiences of a wide variety of patients. Thus, they do not ask condition-specific questions which may be important to patients. This mixed-methods thesis focused on examining and improving upon …
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Automatic Segmentation of Pressure Images Acquired in a Clinical Setting
… to understand how pressure ulcers develop in a hospital environment. This project has developed automated computational methods and algorithms to analyze pressure images acquired in a hospital setting. The algorithm achieved 99% overall accuracy for the classification of pressure images into …
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An Early Warning System For Risk Management
… changes in BP and blood sugar level within hospital environment at runtime. 2) Continually checks patient health status with respect to health condition at runtime. 3) Alerts to the changes as detected (e.g. risk or unknown parameter), and also provides feedback for patient and doctor. We …
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Examining Nurses' Moral Distress, Acts of Moral Courage, and Influence of Ethical Climate in Caring for COVID-19 Patients During the Pandemic
… their care of COVID-19 patients. Examining the hospital environment incited by the pandemic as well as see how nurses responded to moral distress in the hospitals was imperative.
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Understanding time use, stress, and recovery among medical resident
… faced by medical residents in a typical hospital environment. Thirty-eight participants provided rich quantitative and qualitative data regarding their daily work and non-work time usage, recovery practices, and needs. Results showed that medical residents report (on average) longer …
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Κλινική, εργαστηριακή και επιδημιολογική μελέτη των διαπυήσεων των χειρουργικών τραυμάτων σε γενική χειρουργική κλινική
… the high use of wide spectrum antibiotic in the hospital environment the S.W.I. added 12.69 postoperative days to each patient of this study, while the additional total cost during the above period was estimated to 12,182,400 drs.
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Quality of Life and Rehabilitation in Patients with Total Hip Replacement // Рехабилитация и качество на живот при тазобедрено ендопротезирани пациенти
… rehabilitation program carried out in a hospital environment within a 7-day stay in the Department of Rehabilitation at St. Marina University Hospital – Varna. The representative sample was formed from a heterogeneous group of multimorbid patients (72 in number) in different stages of …
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