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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"hospital ward"”.
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Molecular microbial ecology of hospital ward environments.
Evidence indicates that the hospital environment plays a role in hospital acquired infections (HAI). Previous studies have focused on outbreaks and the role of specific culturable pathogens. There is still considerable debate about the role of the environment and the importance of cleaning, …
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The Effects of a hospital ward eating environment on patients' mealtime experience.
The provision of adequate nutritional care to hospital patients continues to be an international problem, despite numerous initiatives and attempts by interested parties over several decades to make improvements. The focus of this research was to critically evaluate the effects a hospital ward …
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Paediatric High Dependency Care in West, North and East Yorkshire
… episode data (n = 24,540) collected in 14 hospitals in West, North and East Yorkshire in 2005. The PHDC measurement tool was subsequently applied to the inpatient episode data (n = 24,540) to estimate the amount and location of PHDC by hospital ward type (District General Hospitals, (DGHs), …
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A near real time photogrammetric PC based system to study regional body surface motions of human beings during respiration
… it could be used as a diagnostic tool in the hospital ward environment the time to obtain the necessary results had to be considerably reduced and simplified. A near real time photogrammetric PC based system had to be designed to replace the traditional photogrammetric method. A near real time …
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The integration of hospital information systems through user centred design.
<p>The development of computer systems in UK hospitals has in recent years been focused on the provision of hospital-wide information systems, known as Hospital Information Support Systems (HISS). This development has been motivated by National Health Service reforms and a realisation that earlier …
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A Comparison of Nurses' Attitudes Concerning Therapeutic Ward Atmosphere with those of Other Members of the Multi-Disciplinary Treatment Team
<p>The atmosphere of a psychiatric hospital ward has been found to have an influence on patient behavior and on treatment outcome. The ward atmosphere is affected by the patients, the multi—disciplinary team and the nurse who is the team member who spends the greatest amount of time on the ward. A …
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The relative efficacy of coping skills training and group discussion as stress management techniques for forensic psychiatric patients
… related to dysphoric emotions, and a measure of hospital ward adjustment were collected before and after treatment. Subjects originally assigned to the waiting list control group later received exposure to either the stress management training condition or the stress discussion condition. …
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Uncertainty and Risk Analysis in Fire Safety Engineering
… to determine the risk to patients on a hospital ward. In addition to the two risk analysis methods, separate uncertainty analysis methods are also presented. Both stochastic uncertainty and knowledge uncertainty are considered in the analysis, separately and combined. The importance of …
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A descriptive study of leave policies, within mental health and forensic settings in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service
… when a mental health inpatient exits their hospital ward with authorised permission; limited research has explored the use of leave, nor its implementation in practice (Barlow and Dickens 2018). This study determines the content of leave policies, which operate across National Health Service …
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Conceptualising, Narrating and Enacting Leadership in the Interprofessional Healthcare Workplace: Exploring Complexity Using Qualitative Methods
… two UK clinical sites: one GP practice and one hospital ward. Participants came from the entire interprofessional team. Multiple complementary forms of analysis were used across both phases including: thematic framework analysis; big ‘D’ Discourse analysis; structural narrative analysis; and …
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Influencing infection control practice: Assessing the impact of a supportive intervention for nurses
… of infection control practice on one hospital ward and use this as the basis for the development, implementation and evaluation of an education and support programme for improving practice on the ward. In Phase I of the study, nurses and health care assistants were interviewed using a …
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Exploring illness and social care management: comparing consumer perspectives of suffering and the challenges faced by service providers
… his mother, who later died with the disease in hospital. Qualitative data analysis (QDA) techniques with grounded theory origins (Glaser and Strauss 1965,1967 and Charmaz 2007) was used to analyse the data. The techniques comprised of line-by-line analysis and coding, constant comparison of …
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Patient safety : evaluation of the impact of nursing hours per patient day staffing method in Western Australia
… used a “bottom up” approach to classify each hospital ward into one of seven categories using characteristics such as patient complexity, intervention levels, the presence of high dependency beds, the emergency/elective patient mix and patient turnover. Once classified, NHPPD were prescribed …
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Prospektive Kostenerfassung einer internistischen Intensivstation
… During the observation period, total costs of hospitalization were 11,087,553 Euro. The largest source of this cost was the hospital ward (6,351,772 Euro; 57%) vs. intensive care unit. Effective costs per survivor (ECPS) accounted for 13,756 Euro on average. Patients that were admitted with …
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Eventos adversos como motivo de ingreso en la Unidad de Medicina Intensiva. Plan de calidad en la Unidad de Medicina Intensiva del Hospital San Pedro de Logroño
… discharge from the ICU, upon discharge from the hospital, at six months and a year. Calculate the overall cost per patient. Material and Methods. Observational, descriptive study, with retrospective information collection, at the ICU of San Pedro Hospital (SPH) of Logroño. We reviewed 4,855 …
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Understanding Thermal Conditions, Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Behaviours in Naturally Ventilated Multi-patient Wards in Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
… capacity of natural ventilation in multi-patient wards in hot-humid settings with limited resources be extended by a better understanding of the links between thermal conditions, thermal comfort, and occupant adaptive behaviours? Natural ventilation remains the primary environmental mechanism for …
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Fire Scenario Development for South African Hospitals
Hospital fires continue to present a serious threat to life safety, particularly in developing countries such as South Africa (SA), where outdated infrastructure, limited maintenance, and unreliable fire protection systems compromise effective fire safety management. Hospitals are uniquely …
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TAKING CARE OF OTHERS - WHAT'S IN IT FOR US? Exploring workplace-related health from a salutogenic perspective in a nursing context
… out within the framework of a WHP process at a hospital ward, was characterized by a salutogenic perspective and an action and mixed method approach. Four studies were carried out at a medium-sized hospital in the south of Sweden and the studies of papers I, II and III were conducted within the …
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A Molecular Epidemiological Study of Human Parainfluenza 4 in the Western Cape, South Africa
… was recorded to determine age, gender, hospital ward (used as a proxy for disease severity), specimen type (upper or lower respiratory tract) and collection date (to indicate seasonality). To determine genetic evolution, novel primers targeting the haemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) in …
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Impact of Quality Improvement Curriculum on Intensive Care Unit Upgrades by Resident Physicians
BACKGROUND: Patients admitted to the hospital ward from the emergency department (ED) can decompensate rapidly and require transfer to the intensive care unit (ICU). These patients may benefit from identification of critical illness in the ED and earlier admission to the ICU. This could reduce …
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