BACKGROUND Boarding of admitted patients in the emergency department (ED) is a major cause of crowding. One alternative to boarding in the ED, a full-capacity protocol where boarded patients are redeployed to inpatient units, can reduce crowding and improve overall flow. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to compare patient satisfaction with boarding in the ED vs. inpatient hallways. METHODS We performe...

On-boarding federation allows an enterprise to efficiently migrate its data from one storage cloud provider to another (e.g., for business or legal reasons), while providing continuous access and a unified view over the data during the migration. On-boarding is provided through a federation layer on the new destination cloud. An on-boarding relationship is set up by a user between containers on...

By minimizing boarding time, commercial airlines can improve their on-time performance and increase their aircraft/crew utilization and thereby increase profitability. Herein, we present preliminary results from combining IP and a simulation model that suggest that structured group boarding can result in boarding time reductions.

OBJECTIVES Emergency department (ED) boarding has been associated with several negative patient-oriented outcomes, from worse satisfaction to higher inpatient mortality rates. The current study evaluates the association between length of ED boarding and outcomes. The authors expected that prolonged ED boarding of admitted patients would be associated with higher mortality rates and longer hospi...

We model and analyze the process of passengers boarding an airplane. We show how the model yields closed-form estimates for the expected boarding time in many cases of interest. Comparison of our computations with previous work, based on discrete event simulations, shows a high degree of agreement. Analysis of the model reveals a clear link between the efficiency of various airline boarding pol...

INTRODUCTION When a psychiatric patient in the emergency department requires inpatient admission, but no bed is available, they may become a "boarder." The psychiatric emergency service (PES) has been suggested as one means to reduce psychiatric boarding, but the frequency and characteristics of adult PES boarders have not been described. METHODS We electronically extracted electronic medical...

Airlines are going through very difficult times financially which has been triggered by fierce competition and current high fuel prices. To stay competitive, it is absolutely essential that they achieve high efficiency in the areas that have control over. Airlines start generating revenues while their aircraft are flying. Reducing aircraft turn-around times is an important goal with passenger b...

Objectives: Studying the situation of providing services for people with disability are very important and in current situation which is dominate on system providing rehabilitation services in Iran, private rehabilitation centers can be the best and the most important focus for this study. Methods: This research performed by qualitative method and with phenomenology type, and purposeful samp...

Islamic Boarding School Sunan Drajat is a boarding school with population of students reaching 12000 plus 20 business units spread across various sectors so that the existence micro insurance needed as form social security for and others. This study aims to make proposed model development sharia can be developed at in accordance existing needs. The research method used this qualitative approach...