This study established the effectiveness of a workplace multifaceted intervention consisting of participatory ergonomics, physical training, and cognitive-behavioural training (CBT) for low back pain (LBP). Between November 2012 and May 2014, we conducted a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial with 594 workers from eldercare workplaces (nursing homes and home care) random...

The degree of polarization (DOP) is an important tool in many optical measurement and imaging applications. We address the problem of its estimation in images that are perturbed with both speckle and photon noise, by determining the Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRLBs) when the illuminated materials are purely depolarizing. We demonstrate that the CRLBs are simply the sum of the CRLBs due to speckle...

The ability to quantify uncertainty in information extracted from spectroscopic measurements is important in numerous fields. The traditional approach of repetitive measurements may be impractical or impossible in some measurements scenarios, while chi-squared analysis does not provide insight into the sources of uncertainty. As such, a need exists for analytical expressions for estimating unce...

Home care aides are on the frontlines providing to vulnerable individuals in their homes during COVID-19 pandemic yet often excluded from policies protect health workers. The goal of this study was examine experiences agency-employed home and identify ways mitigate concerns. We used an innovative journaling approach with thirty-seven as well in-depth interviews fifteen leadership representative...

BACKGROUND: The use of mobile phones as job aides is one the most innovative mHealth applications for community health professionals. However, few studies indicated an influence on clinical outcomes in low-income countries. AIM: Therefore, researchers conducted present study to assess impact providing updated training packages using technology service providers knowledge children’s caregivers a...

Renewal CE Requirements Registered Nurse (RN) and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) The RN licensure period is from September 1 of odd numbered years through August 31 of the following odd numbered year. The LPN licensure period is from September 1 of even numbered years through August 31 of the following even numbered year. RNs and LPNs must complete twenty-four (24) contact hours of CE during ea...

The inside story of how Bill and Hillary Clinton fashioned the health-care plan. Their own aides often battled over the Clintons' approach.

We describe several results characterizing the Hubble Space Telescope from measured point spread functions by using phase-retrieval algorithms. The Cramer-Rao lower bounds show that point spread functions taken well out of focus result in smaller errors when aberrations are estimated and that, for those images, photon noise is not a limiting factor. Reconstruction experiments with both simulate...

Aims To provide insight into the everyday realities facing care aides working in long-term residential (LTRC), and how they perceive their role society. Design A qualitative ethnographic case study. Methods Data were collected over. 10 months of fieldwork at one LTRC setting [September 2015 to June 2016] Western Canada; semi-structured interviews (70 h) with 31 aides; naturalistic observation (...