Study of behavior to prevent infection using nudge message

Nudge to Health: Harnessing Decision Research to Promote Health Behavior

We review selected literature that examines how biases in decision making can be utilized to encourage individual health behavior, such as vaccination, and promote policy decisions, such as resource allocation. These studies use simple interventions to nudge people towards more optimal health decisions without restricting decision-makers’ freedom of choice. Examples include framing effects, def...

Using PHMB antimicrobial to prevent wound infection

It has been estimated that 15% of patients who have elective surgery and 30% of patients whose surgery was classed as ‘contaminated’ suffer from surgical site infections (SSIs) (Bruce et al, 2001). Patients with SSIs will have extended hospital stays, they will have a greater risk of morbidity and mortality, and treatment costs will be increased (Kirkland et al, 1999). Wound management programm...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Using Context-Based Password Strength Meter to Nudge Users' Password Generating Behavior: A Randomized Experiment

Encouraging users to create stronger passwords is one of the key issues in password-based authentication. It is particularly important as prior works have highlighted that most passwords are weak. Yet, passwords are still the most commonly used authentication method. This paper seeks to mitigate the issue of weak passwords by proposing a context-based password strength meter. We conduct a rando...

[Using MMPI to prevent suicide behavior of mental patients].