Background: Healthcare workers’ work performance is an important issue affected by the clinical work environment and equipment. The present study aims to predict healthcare workers’ work performance based on safety-ergonomic features of hands and medical gloves. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on healthcare workers at the hospitals of Shiraz University of Medica...

one of the new technologies in the field of health is wearable biosensor, which provides vital signs monitoring of patients, athletes,premature infants, children, psychiatric patients, people who need long-term care, elderly, and people in impassable regions far from health and medical services. the aim of this study was to explain features and applications of wearable biosensors in medical ser...

background and aim: job satisfaction represents individuals' positive or negative attitude towards their occupation. job satisfaction is of high significance in health care field and could affects the quality of patients' health care and satisfaction. every organization should pay considerable attention to job satisfaction and performance and continually monitor these indices. therefo...

Wireless Body Sensors for medical purposes offer valuable contributions to improve patients' healthcare, including diagnosis and/or therapeutics monitoring. Body temperature is a crucial parameter in healthcare diagnosis. In gynecology and obstetrics it is measured at the skin's surface, which is very influenced by the environment. This paper proposes a new intra-body sensor for long-term intra...

We review some of the recent developments of optical performance monitoring (OPM) in various aspects: (i) the enhancement of monitoring resolution, (ii) multi-impairment monitoring, and (iii) OPM network optimization. In particular, some of the studies on the optimization of performance monitoring networks to achieve the optimal monitoring locations and the number of monitoring probes are discu...

Patient health monitoring devices are flexible. Powerful ECG acquisition system is used at anytime and anywhere in the patient monitoring system. The increasing feasibility and convenience of mobile healthcare has already introduced several significant challenges in hospitals, healthcare providers, policy makers and patients. This study provides adaptive humming bird algorithm of light weight c...

Septicaemia is a major contributor of mortality. Blood culture is the essential investigation for the management of sepsis. Due to lack of resources blood culture is an irregularly used investigation in India. A three-tier level of development is being proposed to develop the blood culture based national programme for early detection of sepsis. The plan envisages the establishment of manual blo...

The optimal duration of Holter monitoring (HM) to minimize costs and maximize yield is unknown. In a retrospective review of 164 patients referred to a tertiary care center for evaluation with 2 days of HM, we found that 48 hours was not cost effective when compared with the traditional 24-hour period.

Following publication of [1] it has come to our attention that there was an error in the last author's name which should be Eric S. Donkor and not Eric Sampene-Donkor. We would like to sincerely apologize for the error and any inconvenience caused. blood stream infections in a tertiary care setting in Ghana. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...

The continuous monitoring of systems that provide healthcare functions is essential to ensuring their constant operation, optimal performance, and value to providers. Log files are rich resources for studying the various aspects of systems including their function and use. Here, we describe the types of log files, applications of results from their analysis, and creation of a monitoring tool fo...