BACKGROUND The effects of written action plans on recovery from exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have not been well studied. The aims of this study were to assess the effects of adherence to a written action plan on exacerbation recovery time and unscheduled healthcare utilisation and to explore factors associated with action plan adherence. METHODS This was a 1-y...

KEY POINTS Self-management education in asthma is not an optional extra. Healthcare professionals have a responsibility to ensure that everyone with asthma has personalised advice to enable them to optimise how they self-manage their condition.Overviews of the extensive evidence-base conclude that asthma self-management supported by regular professional review, improves asthma control, reduces ...

The new product development (NPD) is the process by which a new product idea is conceived, investigated, taken through the design process, manufactured, marketed and serviced. In Automotive Engineering these related to the product realization process (PRP) which consists of five phases: "Plan and Define Program", "Product Design and Development", "Process Design and...

dear editor, as a current phd student working on my dissertation entitled “developing a nursing handover process program in pediatric ward: an action research,” i interviewed nurses and students and found that they had little knowledge about the ethical and legal principles of nursing handover and expressed their dissatisfaction about this process. one of the reasons for this problem, they expr...

This paper describes a plan parsing method that can handle the effects and preconditions of actions and that parses plans in a manner dependent on dialogue state changes, especially on the mental state changes of dialogue participants caused by utterances. This method is based on active chart parsing and uses augmented edge structures to keep state information locally and time map management to...