OBJECTIVE The appropriate and optimal use of analgesics is essential for the adequate management of postoperative pain. Concern that use of opioid analgesics contributes to the development of addiction is a barrier to effective pain relief. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of fear of addiction in postoperative patients in relation to surgical outcomes and staff particip...

The emergence of tablet devices, cloud computing, and abundant online multimedia content presents new opportunities to transform traditional paper-based textbooks into tablet-based electronic textbooks. Towards this goal, techniques have been proposed to automatically augment textbook sections with relevant web content such as online educational videos. However, a highly relevant video can be c...

Chat texts produced in an educational environment are categorized and rated for the purpose of positioning (or placement) of the learner with respect to a learning program (appropriate courses, textbooks, etc). The difficulty lies in the fact that the texts are short and informal. A standard LSA/vector-space model is therefore combined with techniques appropriate for short texts. The approach u...

10 Abstract Critical reasoning has been recognized as a valuable educational goal since the 11 end of the nineteenth century. However, the educational programs to reach this goal have 12 changed dramatically during the twentieth century and moved to a dialogic approach. The 13 shift to dialogism in programs to promote critical reasoning brings challenges concerning 14 evaluation. We depict such...

This paper describes design and development of a self-management program, delivered by telerehabilitation (TR), to address the problem of chronic lower limb swelling in persons with limited mobility. The 18.6 million persons with limited mobility in the USA are at increased risk for chronic lower limb swelling and related secondary complications, including cellulitis and skin ulcers. Over time,...

OBJECTIVE Determining the effect of implementing a culturally-based educational program for caregivers working with the elderly in conditions of disability and poverty in a sector of Bogota, Colombia; perceived health, family functioning, caregiver burden and depression were the variables of interest. METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study, involving using pre-test and post-test;56 famil...

1 Research Assistant of the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) 2 ESAT-Telemic participates in the OPNET University Program for research and educational projects. Abstract It has become clear that the traditional Poisson model of data network traffic is insufficient for dimensioning and analyzing the performance of real-life networks. Fractal models are more appropriate for si...

To meet the needs of all couples, marriage educators and practitioners must understand diversity in regard to family development and composition. This includes the recognition and consideration of developmental and couple dynamic differences between couples in first marriages and those who marry and have children from a previous relationship (Halford et al. 2003). An understanding of the unique...

Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is now considered a standard in tertiary NICUs. Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) is an important adjunct to this therapy and is gaining acceptance for use on the neonatal population. It can be easily incorporated into practice with appropriate education and training. Current publications are lacking regarding nursing care of neonatal patients under...