Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Parallel Workshops, UniversAAL training course, Tutorials Parallel Workshops (see list here) WISHWell’13 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being Location: XXXXXXX ARE'13 The 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Robotic Ecologies Location: XXXXXXX PerCAM13 3rd International workshop on PERvasive and Context-Aware Mid...

A key question in welfare policy concerns the potential that welfare-to-work programs have to develop in teenage parents the motivation and skills to provide financially for themselves and their children. The Teenage Parent Welfare Demonstration was a major experiment initiated in 1986 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and evaluated by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., to tes...

The African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (aortic) is a bilingual (English and French) nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of cancer control and palliation in Africa. Its mission in respect to cancer control in Africa includes support of research and training;provision of relevant and accurate information on the prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and pallia...

Information technology systems in healthcare have resulted in transformation of work practices. Nurses need knowledge, skills, judgment and understanding of the importance of informatics from the commencement of their training. This interactive workshop will look at developing a framework for common core content, teaching methodologies and program structures in the integration of nursing inform...

The 2006 Language Engineering Workshop Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation had the objective to advance the current state-of-the-art in statistical machine translation through richer input and richer annotation of the training data. The workshop focused on three topics: factored translation models, confusion network decoding, and the development of an open source toolkit tha...

AIM Previous research has shown that general practitioners (GPs) rarely use pneumatic otoscopy or tympanometry as recommended by best practice guidelines for diagnosing otitis media. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a multimodal, interactive training workshop on the techniques of pneumatic otoscopy and tympanometry would improve the confidence of GPs for the diagnosis of otit...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The epidemic diffusion of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) represents an emerging problem in family medicine. General Practitioners (GPs) should pay attention to patients with fatty liver, look at associated conditions, identify causal factors and patients at risk of evolution. This study aimed to assess GPs' knowledge and practice and a training project impact about NAF...

INTRODUCTION Patients sometimes present for radiation therapy with high levels of anxiety. Communication skills training may assist radiation therapists to conduct more effective consultations with patients prior to treatment planning and treatment commencement. The overall aim of our research is to examine the effectiveness of a preparatory programme 'RT Prepare' delivered by radiation therapi...

F ever and hyperthermia is a common encounter in hospitalized patients and can cause morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients (1 3). Fever and hyperthermia management is an integral aspect of nursing care. For its consistent rational management, nurses must have appropriate knowledge regarding this important subject (4 6). However, a number of studies have reported that their knowledg...

Communication skills are the cornerstone of the patient-provider relationship in cancer care. Lack of these skills can diminish patient disclosure, increase patient anxiety, and decrease satisfaction with care. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the literature regarding the efficacy and outcomes of communication skills training programs for healthcare providers in oncology. Using four d...