BACKGROUND In psychiatry, hospital stays and transitions to the ambulatory sector are susceptible to major changes in drug therapy that lead to complex medication regimens and common non-adherence among psychiatric patients. A multi-dimensional and inter-sectoral intervention is hypothesized to improve the adherence of psychiatric patients to their pharmacotherapy. METHODS 269 patients from a...

BACKGROUND Recurrent reports from national and international studies show a persistent high prevalence of sickness presence among hospital physicians. Despite the negative consequences reported, we do not know a lot about the reasons why physicians choose to work when ill, and whether there may be some positive correlates of this behaviour that in turn may lead to the design of appropriate inte...

INTRODUCTION Nursing is always accompanied by shift working and nurses in Iran have to work night shifts in some stages of their professional life. Therefore, the present study aimed to describe the novice nurses' perception of working night shifts. METHODS The present qualitative study was conducted on 20 novice nurses working in two university hospitals of Jahrom, Iran. The study data were ...

Based on field studies of work at the surgical department of a university hospital, we propose ideas for enhancing the visualization of, and collaboration on, patient information. As several specialized physicians are connected to a case for a time period of several weeks or months, we have identified the need for physicians to quickly visualize only the relevant information on a case, as well ...

Constantine Zakkaroff1 [email protected] Aleksandra Radjenovic2 [email protected] John P. Greenwood3 [email protected] Derek R. Magee1 [email protected] 1 School of Computing University of Leeds, UK 2 National Institute for Health Research, Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit University of Leeds, UK 3 Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics University of ...

ions for the Analysis and Verification of Hardware and Software Systems ⋆ Roberto Bagnara , Patricia M. Hill , Enea Zaffanella a Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of educational actions on the results of an adherence indicator while checking patient identification wristbands before high-risk care. METHODS This is a descriptive and exploratory study that was conducted in a large university hospital between January 2013 and December 2014, where 6,201 patients were interviewed. Data were analyzed b...

When The Knoll, the building that houses CCRMA, was completely renovated in 2004, new custom workstations were designed and built with the goal of being both fast machines and completely noiseless to match the architectural and acoustical design of the building.

Simplified Health Care (SHC) is a subsidiary of Simplified National Corporation. Simplified National Corporation is a private and publicly traded company which trades over 30,000 shares in the Bombay Stock Exchange. Simplified National Corporation specializes in health care and related products. Besides SHC, Simplified National also owns and operates subsidiaries in three different industries, ...

The use of videoconferencing as a teaching modality in dermatology is not widespread. The objectives of this study were to introduce the videoconferencing format to dermatology journal clubs and to determine its effects on the training and satisfaction of house officers (residents). Ten dermatology house officers participated in this study. They were being trained at three university hospitals ...