BACKGROUND Ethical conflicts, often leading to poor teamwork and moral distress, are very challenging to patients, patients' families, and health care providers. A proactive approach to ethical conflicts may improve patient care outcomes. OBJECTIVES To examine acceptability and feasibility of an ethics screening and early intervention tool for use by nurses caring for critically ill patients....

Aging is associated with decline in a multitude of cognitive processes and brain functions. However, a growing body of literature suggests that agerelated decline in cognition can sometimes be reduced through experience, cognitive training, and other interventions such as fitness training. Research on cognitive training and expertise has suggested that age-related cognitive sparing is often qui...

BACKGROUND Aging may cause various functional abilities gradually deteriorate. With changes in social forms, the trend of functional fitness decline will change accordingly. Therefore, this study endeavored to identify the trends in functional fitness decline by comparing the differences in the functional fitness of females in various age groups. METHODS Thirty six healthy females were divide...

Experience shows that external failures of software systems are often preceded by deterioration in their internal state (i.e. an error). An error is defined as the difference between a computed, observed, or measured value or condition and the true, specified, or theoretically correct value or condition [1]. For software systems that are designed to degrade gracefully, the capability to provide...

This ecological analysis addresses the association between income inequality and health status in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Data were analyzed using geo-processing and multiple regression techniques. The following health indicators were used: infant mortality rate; standardized mortality rate; life expectancy at birth; and homicide rate among 15-29-year-old males. Patterns of income i...

poverty is one of the most important problems in developed and developing countries such as iran. for solving this problem, many studies have investigated the effective factors on poverty. in this paper, the impact of financial development on absolutepoverty in iran has been investigated during 1985-2013 by using the structural time series method. for do it, two indicators of financial developm...

BACKGROUND The most common way of accounting for the countryside in health studies has been to compare it, as a whole, to the city. Furthermore, most of the work on small area health inequalities has been confined to major urban centres. To counter this trend, in this paper, we explore small area health inequalities in the predominantly rural county of Portneuf (population = 44,545), Québec. Su...

A systematic review was conducted of 13 peer-reviewed articles and eight reports focused on indicators of quality abortion care. A total of 75 indicators of quality abortion were identified; these indicators address a variety of issues including policy, health systems, trained-provider availability, women's decision making, and morbidity and mortality. There is little agreement about indicators...