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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"medical facilities"”.
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Determinants of Commercial Energy Demand: An Empirical Study of Medical Facilities in NY State
… results. We perform our study on 24 commercial medical facilities in NY State between 2002 and 2010. The price elasticity of fossil demand was estimated to be approximately -0.14 in the short run, while that of electricity demand was estimated to be -0.11. Estimates of price volatility were …
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A System-wide Planning Tool to Evaluate Access from Crash Sites to Medical Facilities in Virginia
… response planning. Evaluation of coverage of medical facilities is required to determine adequate access from crash sites to medical facilities. This study proposes a proof of concept for a planning tool that evaluates fatal and serious injury crash response coverage from crash sites to …
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Using Matching Methods From Both Fisher's Experimental Design and Rubin's Causal Model to Compare Between Two Medical Facilities with Extremely Skewed Number of Subjects
… with the problem of comparison between a two medical facilities' with extremely skewed sample sizes from non-experimental study. The data came from a study of rehabilitation interventions with patients diagnosed with cardiac and pulmonary issues who received treatment either in inpatient …
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Movement Before the Movement: Black Hospitals in Kansas City, 1890-1940
… creating the need for Black physicians and medical facilities. Segregation prevented Black physicians from treating white patients, and Black patients were barred from receiving medical care at public health facilities. In response, Black physicians, philanthropists, and communities in the …
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Change of heart: Rethinking the prescriptive medical environment
… have long been essential components of medical treatment regimes. Though many of these regimes may have experienced only short-lived success as products of trends in popular culture, the complex relationship between environmental exposure and cure is one that is fundamental to the …
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Understanding social amplification of risk : possible impact of an avian flu pandemic
… absentee rates, lack of accessibility to the medical facilities, and disruption to the product supply chain. This work introduces social amplification of risk theory to evaluate the potential impact of a pandemic to a business due to heightened fear. It uses a case study of Genzyme Corporation …
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The USA maritime enforcement regime: a model for South Africa?
… secure homes, access to acceptable education, medical facilities and potable water.
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Pediatric outpatient clinic manpower requirement variables at Navy Medical Treatment Facilities
… determination of manpower requirements at Naval Medical Center San Diego and Naval Hospital Bremerton Pediatric Outpatient Clinics. The study reviews the military and civilian managed care program, the principles of Population Health Management, and the present medical model used by military and …
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Trust and Cultural Competence: Minority Healthcare Clinician’s Impact on Patient Relationships
… health outcomes and heightened suspicion of medical facilities, particularly in Black and Hispanic populations. Healthcare professionals of color are in a unique position to restore trust and establish respectful, pertinent connections with their patients. They can frequently empathize with …
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Characteristics of Patients Who Visit the Emergency Department with Self-inflicted Injury
During visits to emergency medical facilities, the primary care of and risk identification for individuals who have attempted suicide is considered an important element in suicide prevention. With the ultimate goal of helping to prevent suicide, the aim of the present study was to determine the …
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Danville's Civil War prisons, 1863-1865
… prisons ill-prepared. Inadequate food, heat, and medical facilities contributed to miserable living conditions. During the spring and summer of 1864, the prisoners enjoyed some sense of normalcy inside the compound. By autumn, conditions had deteriorated. Prisoners suffered from extreme …
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The Role of Motivations in Retention of Employees : A Case of Tanzania Portland Cement Company (TPCC)
… salary as motivational package, good salary‚ medical facilities‚ bonus‚ transport‚ retirement benefits as some of the things which attracts employees and can be used as a factor to sustain and retain employees. Retaining employees saves companies money in training costs and helps maintain an …
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Exploring the Experiences of HIV Positive Pregnant Women on Prevention of Vertical Transmission of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi
… numerous obstacles, such as limited access to medical facilities, long travel times that make it more difficult to obtain treatment and having to wait a long time to receive necessary care. The health workers emphasized how critical it is to attend to the HIV-positive pregnant woman's specific …
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Evaluation of a Monoclonal-based EIA for the Detection of Giardia lamblia and the Identification of the Antigen
… in-house at TechLab, Inc. and at various U.S. medical facilities. Results were statistically analyzed to determine sensitivity (ability of the assay to detect a positive result), specificity (amount of cross-reactivity), predictive positive value (the confidence in a positive result), …
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How Lupus Crossed the Color Line: Chronic Illness and the Reproduction of Racism in Health Care
… that came with the Great Migration and the Medical Civil Rights Movement, Black people started getting more access to medical facilities that were previously “white only.” Now that Blacks had access to more equitable healthcare, awareness of Black health and Black illness grew. By the 1980s, …
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Anaesthesia providers accessibility and usage of video
… direct contact audit we atempted to contact all medical facilities with an operating theatre in South Africa. Results 98% (661/676) of hospitals provided responses to the survey or were contacted directly via telephone. Of the total 559 hospitals with operating theatres, 65% (362/559) had access …
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Stone cold clean & dry : a substance abuse rehab center In Manhattan
… of Kips Bay, among a large cluster of medical facilities. Unlike most rehab centers, this institution will negotiate its functions within an urban setting. It will interact with existing social and physical infrastructures in order to better service the patients while maintaining a …
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The relationships between nurse care, attitude of patient and nurse with cancer patient satisfaction
… methodology. In Libya, the challenge of medical facilities and treatment is a current issue. Thus, this study was conducted to investigate the patients’ satisfaction at National Cancer Institute Misurata, Libya. The participants were 217 cancer patients of National Institute of Oncology …
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Diversification of Community Income Through Community Based Beekeeping : The case study of Mihima Village in Lindi District, Lindi Region,
… of safe, clean and adequate water, inadequate medical facilities, and lack of financial services to offer loans as well as low entrepreneurial skills to the business people in the village. The priority problems identified was low household income. Community Based Beekeeping project was designed …
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A study of determinants and prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Cape Town
… in poor social conditions with limited access to medical facilities. The disease process begins with repeated group A streptococcal (GAS) infections, which, subsequently result in acute rheumatic fever (ARF). In the absence of intervention, repeated bouts of ARF in turn, may result in progression …
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