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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"pediatric hospitals"”.
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Developing a social robotic companion for stress and anxiety mitigation in pediatric hospitals
… order to reduce negative affects of patients in pediatric context. This thesis introduces the Huggable robot that was made to mitigate stress and anxiety of child patients at a hospital and take a role of social and emotional advocate for them during hospital stay. The mechanism of the hardware …
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Evaluation of Differences Between Pediatric and General Emergency Departments in Rate of Admission and Resource Utilization for Visits by Children and Young Adults with Complex Chronic Conditions
… in rate of admission and charges between pediatric and general emergency departments for visits by children and young adults with complex chronic conditions Design: Cross-sectional study using data from the 2008 Nationwide Emergency Department SampleSetting: Stratified sample of U.S. …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 INFECTION CONTROL ON VISUAL ART INSTALLATIONS IN HOSPITALS WITH PEDIATRIC PATIENTS
… COVID-19 infection control on visual artwork in pediatric hospitals and hospitals caring for pediatric patients. The study involved five hospitals in three southern America states and addressed visual artwork and art installations. The researcher administered an internet-based survey to …
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Extent to Which Social Workers Use NASW Ethical Standards
Social workers in children's hospitals practice with families who experience life-altering events in the form of illness, injury, abuse/neglect, dying and death. The nature of families, complexity of medicine, ongoing technological advances and the commodification of health care create complicated …
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Early warning of patient deterioration in the inpatient setting
… to prevent irreversible organ damage and death. Pediatric hospitals currently utilize simple, human evaluated rubrics called early warning scores to detect early signs of patient deterioration. These scores comprise subjective (patient behavior, clinician's impression) and objective (vital signs) …
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The impact of social robots on young patients' socio-emotional wellbeing in a pediatric inpatient care context
… I investigate this in the context of pediatric inpatient care. Children and their parents may undergo challenging experiences when admitted for inpatient care at pediatric hospitals. While most hospitals make efforts to provide socio-emotional support for patients and their families …
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A Descriptive Correlational Study of Rate and Determinants of Parental mHealth Adherence to Symptom Home Monitoring for Infants with Congenital Heart Disease during the Single Ventricle Interstage Period: The DOMAIN Study
… the single ventricle interstage period. The pediatric self-management conceptual framework was used with a retrospective, descriptive, correlational research design. De-identified data from 312 infants treated at nine pediatric hospitals between March 2014-September 2019 were included from …
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Enhancing the Reliability of Real-World Evidence and Clinical Decision-Making: Robust, Calibrated, and Uncertainty-Aware Methods for Observational Healthcare Research
… health record data from eight national pediatric hospitals, we quantify the impact of COVID-19 infection on healthcare utilization outcomes, demonstrating ALPHA’s effectiveness in consistently reducing variance and systematic errors while accurately capturing substantial heterogeneity …
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National Practices, Attitudes, and Training Surrounding Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Procedures for Adolescents
… the United States is predominantly provided by pediatricians. For these patients, sexual health and contraception are important parts of primary care. Despite this, pediatricians are often less comfortable providing contraceptive counseling and lack training to administer long-acting reversible …
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Can the environmental protection agency's air quality index (AQI) be used to predict pediatric emergency room admissions for asthma?
… study reviewed daily ER admissions at an urban pediatric hospital in Dallas, Texas for the months of May through September 2000, in an effort to predict increased admissions for asthma during high ozone episodes. If the color-coded AQI could be used to predict admissions for asthma, then the …
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Incidence and treatment modality trends in pediatric tibial fractures: a PHIS database study
BACKGROUND: Tibial shaft fractures are a common pediatric musculoskeletal injury. Most tibial shaft fractures in the pediatric population are managed conservatively through closed reduction and casting. Surgical alternatives include intramedullary (IM) nailing, open reduction and internal fixation …