Objective: Providing a risk-assessment framework that guides Phoniatric clinical services delivery and also identify patients for whom these should be prioritized during pandemics.Design: Cross-sectional study.Settings: A questionnaire-based survey was designed directed to the phoniatricians based on their professional experience, work environment, institutional resources. It distributed online...

To use smart home services efficiently, semantic modeling of different layers of home network resources as well as environment data and user's personal data is required. This suggests that a smart home system must be able to support data fusion and derive the context where services are operating in order to classify the new information provided by network agents correctly. Following the recent ...

abstract background: nurses’ clinical judgment development is essential for the professional nursing practice. the aim of this study was to explore the facilitators to the development of iranian nurses’ clinical judgment. materials and methods: a qualitative design using conventional content analysis method was employed in the study. a purposive sample of 24 participants was recruited from thre...

INTRODUCTION Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is a common indication for emergency laparotomy in the UK, which is associated with a 90-day mortality rate of 13%. There are currently no UK clinical guidelines for the management of this condition. The aim of this multicentre prospective cohort study is to describe the burden, variation in management and associated outcomes of SBO in the UK adult pop...

INTRODUCTION Key stakeholders' involvement is crucial to the sustainability of quality point-of-care (POC) diagnostics services in low-and-middle income countries. The aim of this study was to explore key stakeholder perceptions on the implementation of POC diagnostics in rural primary healthcare (PHC) clinics in South Africa. METHOD We conducted a qualitative study encompassing in-depth inte...

The design of complex artifacts has increasingly become a cooperative process, with the detection and resolution of conflicts between design agents playing a central role. Effective tools for supporting the conflict management process, however, are still lacking. This paper describes a system called DCSS (the Design Collaboration Support System) developed to meet this challenge in design teams ...

Automated intelligent, clinical decision support systems generally promote to help or to assist physicians and patients regarding to prevention of diseases or treatment of illnesses using computer represented knowledge and information. In this paper, assessment factors affecting the proper design of clinical decision support system were investigated. The required procedure steps for gathering t...