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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Risk assessment tool"”.
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Risk assessment tool for diabetic neuropathy.
… is becoming the gold standard for neuropathy assessment. Devices like tuning fork, Biothesiometer and Neurothesiometer use this technology but require an operator to record and manually interpret the results. The results are user-dependent and are not consistent. To overcome these limitations, …
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Architecture-level risk assessment tool based on UML specification
… testing [2]. This thesis presents a prototype tool called Architecture-level Risk Assessment Tool (ARAT) to demonstrate the process of risk assessment. The final result of this process is to distinguish those potentially high risk components in the software system. ARAT is built on the risk …
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Development and Implementation of a Violence Risk Assessment Tool
… Research shows that the use of a violence risk assessment tool has been proven effective in attempts to prevent workplace violence. This paper will examine patient initiated violence in the workplace, explore the use of a workplace violence risk assessment tool to identify patients with …
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Development of an ergonomic risk assessment tool for work postures
… wide range of workplaces. However, there are no tools available that cover the wide range of physical risk factors at workplaces. Most of the existing observational methods have not been extensively tested for their reliability and validity during the development process. Therefore, the main …
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Validation of the Juvenile Sexual Offense Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool--II
<p>The accurate assessment of risk of sexual reoffense for juveniles has the potential to inform many actions, including the segregation of low risk from high risk offenders, allocation of limited resources, matching treatment assignments and other programming with risk, and implementation of …
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Implementation of Violence Risk Assessment Tool on In-patient Psychiatric Unit
… in six months after implementation of a Violence Risk Assessment (VRA) tool. The ultimate goal was to maintain assault rates below NDNQI. Assaults on the unit for the fourth quarter of 2015 were 2.92, NDNQI 2.05. Assaults with injury were 2.43, NDNQI 0.75. A literature review was performed to …
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The development of welding fumes health risk assessment tool for automotive component related industries
… limited. Currently, the welding fume exposure risk assessments are largely focused on a single welding fume constituent approach because the regulatory standard for compliance only caters for a single constituent. However, in reality, welders are simultaneously exposed to multiple welding fume …
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Risk Assessment tool for water reuse - University of Cape Town as a case study
… alternative sources effectively, the associated risks must be understood. The World Health Organisation's Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) already exists but can be complex, and relevant pathogen data is limited in South Africa. The existing risk assessment framework for irrigation …
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Toward an Episodic Process of Corruption: An analysis of the State Integrity Risk Assessment Tool
… Public Integrity in Washington, DC, formulated a risk assessment scale and then applied it to all 50 states. This dissertation examines that scale’s conceptual, methodological, and statistical aspects and suggests ways to improve it. Method: The indicators from the assessment’s scales are broken …
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Baseline Prevalence Study of Hendrich II Fall Risk Assessment Tool at a Local Community Hospital
… baseline prevalence study on Hendrich II Fall Risk Assessment Tool was conducted per the request of the fall committee of a community hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hendrich II assessments were completed on 106 patients (<em>n </em>= 106) between September 2017 and November 2017. In …
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Baseline Prevalence Study of Hendrich II Fall-Risk Assessment Tool at a Local Community Hospital
… This paper presents the analyses of two fall-risk tools, Hendrich II fall risk model (HFRM II) and PMAT, in a local community hospital. Extensive review of literature and statistical analysis of 106 patients’ assessments practices were used to determine the current assessment skills for falls …
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A computing task ergonomic risk assessment tool for assessing risk factors of work related musculoskeletal disorders
… widely applied method in assessing exposure to risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) related to office works because it is inexpensive and applicable to wide range of office jobs. However, the existing research that applied this method was mainly focused to a limited …
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Assessing the feasibility of using actuarial risk assessment tool to identify risks in child protection cases.
The problem: Risk and uncertainty are integral to child protection decisions because of the need to protect children from intrafamilial maltreatment, which is more common than abuse by strangers and occurs in the private sphere of the home. The problem of assessing intrafamilial risks to children …
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Creation of a Spatial Decision Support System as a Risk Assessment Tool Based on Kentucky Tornado Climatology
… affect a large region of the United States. The risk of tornadoes is contingent on dynamic atmospheric conditions that are most likely during spring but which can occur anytime of the year, making the storms challenging to forecast. Using geographical information systems (GIS), a web-based …
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Development of protective coatings to improve high temperature corrosion resistance in chlorine containing environments based on an advanced corrosion risk assessment tool
… materials involved in these processes. A helpful tool can be corrosion prediction diagrams for designing optimized coating compositions. For this reason, a new concept for the assessment of high temperature corrosion resistance in oxygen-chlorine containing environments has been developed. This …
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The Diet and Early Childhood Caries (DECC) Study: Validation of a Novel ECC Risk Assessment Tool and Investigation of Diet-Related ECC Risk Factors
… speak, diminished quality of life, and increased risk for both oral and systemic health conditions (Colares and Feitosa, 2003; B. L. Edelstein, Vargas, and D, 2006; Norman Tinanoff and Reisine, 2009). Early identification of risk and prompt, targeted intervention is essential to overcoming the …
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Sexual misconduct in police officers: development of a risk assessment tool for the early identification of police officers and staff who abuse their positions for a sexual purpose.
… and Wales (NPCC) has requested an evidence based risk assessment tool for the identification of officers involved in PSM. This thesis therefore sought to identify potential risk factors and also to understand the individual, organisational and cultural factors linked to PSM. Chapter 2 identified …
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Fall Prevention in Acute Psychiatric Patients
… contributable factors leading to falls, fall risk assessment tools, and fall prevention interventions in different settings. However, there are limited studies done in inpatient psychiatric settings. The acute-psychiatric unit at a large metropolitan hospital has seen an increase in falls in …
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Health risk effect of indoor air quality index at adaptive reused museum in Malaysia
… there are still limited studies conducted on the risk assessment of the indoor air quality (IAQ) which affect towards the people in the public building, especially in the museum. As one of the environmental risk assessment tool, the environmental quality index was utilised to determine whether the …
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The Role of Common Risk- Assessment Tools in Assessing Patient Safety Risks
… harm. Many scholars believe a different or new risk assessment tool may improve patient safety. This dissertation examines the role of risk assessment tools in healthcare, exploring why these tools are not benefiting healthcare to the same extent as they benefit other safety critical industries. …
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