results urban patients were more likely to receive supplementary information and being strongly encouraged by their nephrologists to seek transplant. all participants acknowledged “independence” as the main advantage of transplantation. increased freedom to travel and improved life expectancy were mentioned only among the urban groups. the main themes in all groups regarding perceived barriers ...

Background Hypoglycemia is associated with transient cognitive deficits and can result in cardiac arrhythmia, neurological damage, falls or aspiration. Among critical and noncritical inpatients, hypoglycemia increases the risk of death. Since 2012, we had kept the rate of hypoglycemia (proportion of capillary glucose episodes bellow 60 mg/dL per 100 glucose measurements) well controlled. During...

This article takes stock of the basic notions of Information Structure (IS). It first provides a general characterization of IS — following Chafe (1976) — within a communicative model of Common Ground (CG), which distinguishes between CG content and CG management. IS is concerned with those features of language that concern the local CG. Second, this paper defines and discusses the notions of F...

Enterprise portals have become the backbone for the integration of a large number of different applications, content, and services (Smith, 2004). Nowadays, electronic business can hardly be imagined without the use of these portals as central entry points. At the same time, companies become more and more aware that portal projects are complex, timeand cost-consuming, with a high risk of failing...

Objective To explore the application value of PDCA cycle combined with intensive maintenance quality management mode in hospital medical devices management. Methods In order to improve level devices, was adopted maintenance, and efficiency verified. Results After mode, stain-free rate device surfaces integrity registration information were significantly improved (2=37.425,2=21.218; P<0.01), ...