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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"IOM"”.
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Aerosol Samplers Comparison: IOM Dual Sampler (Inhalable & Respirable) vs Conventional Methods for Assessing Welders Exposure to Manganese
… The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) dual fraction sampler is capable of providing both inhalable and respirable portions of airborne particles by using only one sampling device. For this study, the IOM dual fraction sampler was compared with OSHA method ID-125G for determining …
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Organic chemistry and mineral interactions in the solar system
… was formed instead of the expected oxygenated IOM derivative. To determine if this result was due to an effect of the minerals present, whole rock samples and demineralised IOM were analysed, both before and after exposure to ozone. Isolated IOM behaved differently from that still in situ. …
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Point-based mathematics for computer-aided manufacture
… is founded on the Inverse Offset Method (IOM) proposed by Kishinami; the algorithm is chosen because it possesses a number of desirable properties, most notably its versatility and robustness. The first fundamental contribution is an error analysis of the IOM that has not been published …
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Characterizing the Factors Associated with Women’s Adherence to Institute of Medicine Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines and Assessing a Possible Role for Mobile Health through the Evaluation of a Pregnancy-Specific Application SmartMoms Canada
… encouraging women to meet Institute of Medicine (IOM) weight gain recommendations, sound clinical guidance, and other forms of support. Another means of helping women adhere to weight gain guidelines is by making use of the near ubiquitous nature of mobile technology and promoting healthy …
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Reducing preventable adverse drug events in hospital settings
… to at least one medication error per day (IOM, 2006). Errors may occur during various stages of the Medication Use System; a system composed of various tasks performed from the point of prescribing medication to the point in which a patient is monitored for adverse effects. Studies have …
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Diffractive optical lens design and fabrication for integrated monitoring of microelectromechanical lateral comb resonators
… goal. However, Integrated Optical Monitoring (IOM) must be achieved in order to enable incorporation with the MEMS die in a single package for effective lifetime system monitoring. This research addresses the design, fabrication and testing of diffractive optical elements (DOES) for achieving …
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Die Essex-Lopresti-Verletzung: Klinische Studie und Literaturauswertung
… mit einer Verletzung der interossären Membran (IOM) sowie des distalen Radioulnar-Gelenkes charakterisiert. Zugrunde liegt meist ein Hochrasanztrauma. Sie wird initial häufig übersehen und zeigt klinisch/funktionell in vielen Fällen schlechte Ergebnisse. Patienten und Methoden: Anhand von 4 …
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Understanding RN workforce education in the rural North-Central Region of Michigan
… are proliferating. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) challenged the nursing profession by setting the goal of having 80% of the nation's nurses prepared at the baccalaureate level (BSN) or higher by 2020. This is an ambitious goal given that, nationally, only 50% of nurses have a BSN. In fact, …
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Learning from interprofessional practice
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a shift in delivering health services from compartmentalized to team-based care (IOM, 2003; WHO, 2010). Based on their advice the Interprofessional Educational Collaborative (IPEC) formulated four interprofessional …
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Gestational Weight Gain Patterns
… staying within the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 2009 recommended guidelines for GWG. To adequately address GWG patterns, study aims were achieved through concept analysis and retrospective data collection to: (1) identify GWG patterns among the sample by describing the characteristics of …
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On the feasibility of integrated optical waveguide-based in situ monitoring of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
… devices can create integrated optical metrology (IOM), which is an in-situ method of device characterization and can represent an enabling technology for MEMS. Co-integration of the two technologies can be achieved through either processing or post processing of integrated waveguides with the MEMS …
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Recognition of Compassion Fatigue among Medical-Surgical Nurses: The Provision of Education to Manage the Effects
<p>The Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2010) recommends that healthcare organizations make the “recruitment and retention of qualified nurses a priority”. The ability to comply with the recommendation is fraught with challenges. Nurses are required to care for patients across the age span with varying …
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Consequence Delimiting: A Grounded Theory of Healthcare Leader Decision Making in the Context of Adverse Events
… the release of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report: “To Err is Human” in 1999 (Institute of Medicine, 1999). The IOM reported that as many as 98,000 people died from preventable deaths every year in the United States as a result of errors in the delivery of healthcare. Studies in other …
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Using Therapeutic Writing to Deconstruct Recovery from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
… protocols in 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) exhorted clinicians to focus on defining the concept of recovery, concentrating on symptom reduction, removal of the PTSD diagnosis, and end-state function. Although the IOM report mobilized large-scale efforts to quantify treatments and …
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Utilization of a transitional care team for medication reconciliation in geriatric primary care
… According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), medication-related errors lead to mortality and adverse effects such as allergic reactions, avoidable side effects, drug interactions, and unnecessary cost (IOM, 2000). Even with the predominant use of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) …
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An Object Model Framework for Interface Management in Building Information Models
… The proposed Interface Object Model (IOM) framework is the first in the literature to present a comprehensive data structure and its dependencies of interface information for object modeling. This can greatly improve the quality and interoperability of modeled interface information. …
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Competency Guide For Intrathecal Pump Nurses
… care for patients. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) stunned the nation in 1999 with, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” which reported that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year from preventable medical errors (IOM, 1999). Since then there has been a move in the direction …
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Developing A Facilitated Pathway For Associate Degree Nursing Graduates to Enroll In An Rn-Bsn Program
… Future of Nursing report (Institute of Medicine [IOM]) recommendation to increase the number of BSN graduates has renewed interest among nurse leaders to create new and innovative pathways for nurses to continue to higher levels of education. The literature review in this paper was conducted to …
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Modelling an SBR waste treatment system.
… (DBS) and biologically inert organic materials (IOM). The classification of COD makes it possible to describe the degradation process of organic substances more precisely. Quantitative batch test methods for the classification of the substrate have been devised to aid in characterizing and …
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One Hospital’s Journey to Create a Culture of Safety
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports in 1999, To Err is Human – Building a Safer Health System and 2001, Crossing the Quality Chasm sought to transform the culture of American hospitals. The culture of blame needed to become a culture of safety if we were ever to reduce and prevent errors and …
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