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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"Intensive care units"”.
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Positioning and exercises in intensive care units
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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Capacity planning and admission control policies for intensive care units
Poor management of the patient flow in intensive care units (ICUs) causes service rejections and presents significant challenges from the standpoint of capacity planning and management in ICUs. This thesis reports on the development of a simulation framework to study admission control polices that …
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Telemedicine systems at intensive care units : identifying patients that benefit most
… and medicine, which promises to improve health care systems and alleviate the workload on doctors and nurses alike at hospital intensive care units. While much work has been done on assessing the benefits of telemedicine compared to traditional approaches, we do not know which are the …
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Multidimensional approach to nurse client communication in two Malaysian intensive care units
Communication among patients and nurses m the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has received extensive attention in the nursing research literature. These studies have identified numerous factors both enhancing and impeding effective nurse client communication. Despite the extensive research attention paid …
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Information sharing by nurses in intensive care units with and without interdisciplinary rounds
… awareness are important concepts in critical care, where large interdisciplinary teams must coordinate their activities through information sharing to provide lifesaving treatment to patients. Little is known, however, about how nurses contribute to distributed situation awareness in different …
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Diagnosing intensive care units and hyperplane cutting for design of optimal production systems
… how conditions, people, and environments of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) effect the likelihood the preventable harm will happen to a patient in the ICU. Two years of electronic medical records from seven adult ICUs totalling 77 beds at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) were analysed. …
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Burden, Etiology and Control of Hospital Acquired Infections in Intensive Care Units in Vietnam
… one of the most frequent adverse event in healthcare worldwide, affecting hundreds of millions of patients annually. In both developed and developing countries, this burden falls mainly on the critically ill. In Vietnam, HAI data are limited, particularly from the intensive care units (ICUs). …
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A quantitative approach to patient risk assessment and safety optimization in intensive care units
Health care quality and patient safety has gained an increasing amount of attention for the past two decades. The quality of care nowadays does not only refer to successful cure of diseases for patients, but a much broader concept involving health care community, inter-relationships among care …
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Knowledge, perceptions and experiences of nurses towards family centred care in adult intensive care units
Submission in fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree in Masters of Technology in Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2018.
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Parental State Anxiety as a Function of The Visitation Schedule of Pediatric Intensive Care Units
… whose child had been admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) with restricted visiting hours and the state anxiety level of the parent whose child had been admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care unit with unrestricted visiting hours. The 15 parents in each of the two visitation …
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The Effect of Music Intervention on Anxiety and Physiological responses for Intensive Care Units patients
… and physiological responses of patients in intensive care unit. The 81 subjects for this study were selected from medical and cardiovascular intensive care units at one hospital in Suwon city. They were assigned to two groups, 32 to the experimental group and 30 to the control group. The …
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Provision of physiotherapy services for children in Intensive Care Units in Uganda: A descriptive study
… high in Uganda but the provision of critical care services is sub-optimal, characterized by limited accessibility and minimum standardization of services provided in the intensive care units (ICU). The nature and extent of the provision of physiotherapy services for children in ICUs in Uganda …
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The Uncertainty and Psychological Health of Family Caregivers of Patients with Delirium in Intensive Care Units
… more than 5 million patients are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in the United States, and up to 80 % of these patients develop delirium. Delirium is a common indicator of acute brain dysfunction in the ICU and a predictor of mortality, longer ICU/hospital stay, and long-term cognitive …
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Implementation of a national electronic health record in the specialised setting of neonatal intensive care units
… and are necessary to update modern healthcare. The introduction of EHRs however is complex and is dependent on a myriad of factors. One key factor in successful EHR implementations is workflows and workflow compliance. Through acceptable workflow designs, clinicians can document …
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The Influence of Context on Utilizing Research Evidence for Pain Management in Jordanian Pediatric Intensive Care Units
… pain management evidence in Jordanian Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs). Purpose: To assess the existence, content, and the factors influencing the use of pain management evidence in Jordanian PICUs. Methods: Three studies were guided by the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in …
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The costing of COVID-19 intensive care units at a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
… The expansion of Groote Schuur Hospital's (GSH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity to accommodate an unprecedented number of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic was an expensive undertaking. There are currently no published formal retrospective analyses of the financial costs of running and …
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Symptom Burden at End of Life in Patients with Terminal and Life-Threatening Illness in Intensive Care Units
… in the delivery of consistent, high quality care for all dying patients.</p>
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Nurses' lived experience of caring for long-term mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units : a phenomenological study
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-129).
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A survey on end of life care practices in intensive care units of three government teaching hospitals in Namibia
Background: End of life (EOL) care may be described as care provided for patients in the final hours or days of their life. More broadly it’s defined as care for all patients with a terminal illness that is deemed progressive and incurable. It implies a focus on pain and symptom management which is …
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