The planning of an adequate nutritional support for meeting the metabolic requirements of sick neonates is a tedious time consuming calculation, needs practical expert knowledge and involves the risk of introducing possibly fatal errors. We therefore developed the interactive support system VIE–PNN for calculating the composition of parenteral nutrition solutions (PNS) for neonates at intensive...

$3,000 to $5,000 A YEAR By CHARLES SULLIVAN WASHINGTON—A movement to cut the work week for Federal employees to five and a half days is gaining momentum here. Evidence is piling up to show these interesting facts: v * 1, Chronic fatigue is resulting from the long week. 2. Excessive sick leave is being used, and for just being "worn out". 3. The six-day week is forcing government girls to quit a...

BACKGROUND Medical sickness certificates are generally the main source for information when scrutinizing the need for aimed intervention strategies to avoid or reduce the individual and community side effects of sick leave. This study explored the value of medical sickness certificates related to daily work in Norwegian National Insurance Offices to identify sick-listed persons, where modified ...

The recent interest in developing subjective wellbeing aggregation rules transport research has triggered dialogue across disciplines. Here we analyze how 10 different result day-level indicators of satisfaction based on separate measures for each activity and trip the day compare resulting distribution scores with those life satisfaction. We find that normative outperform heuristic are best us...

There have been few longitudinal studies on sick building syndrome (SBS), which include headache, fatigue, and runny nose. We considered effect of sick building syndrome with illnesses like headache, fatigue and runny nose. Thus, we designed a questionnaire and asked from male of dormitory residence. Questions of the questionnaire were more about known symptoms of buildings (headache, fatigue, ...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that frequent-, short-term sick leave is associated with work environment factors, whereas long-term sick leave is associated mainly with health factors. However, studies of the hypothesis of an association between a poor working environment and frequent short spells of sick leave are few and results are inconsistent. Therefore, we aimed to explore associations ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore and compare the ability of five instruments for self-rating to predict future sick leave rates. METHODS In three Swedish municipalities 2,252 employees completed a baseline questionnaire and were followed up for 4 years. Five health-oriented instruments for self-rating were used as potential predictors of the two outcome measures no sick leave at all, an...