Elderly patients represent a large number of admissions to hospital, accounting for a disproportionate number of hospital bed days. Discharge planning can improve the safety and appropriateness of discharge from hospital, and can have a positive impact on length of stay and efficiency. Despite this, discharge planning is often neglected. This review, both evidence and experience based, is provi...

Situation Reports (SitReps) is an internal Department of Health performance data collecting system. Although intended primarily for internal use, the data are also used to answer parliamentary questions, brief ministers and to inform national performance indicators. This paper reviews the data collection system and data-set, and shows how it can be used to evaluate delays in hospital discharge ...

electromagnetic forming is a high energy rate forming process. in this process, an electromagnetic lorentz body force is used for deformation of products. in this article, electromagnetic forming process was simulated for assembly of parts as an innovative method. in this research work, the effect of important parameters of process such as discharge energy, radius and width of rectangular groov...

The post-discharge kinetics is a very complex problem. Various radiative and non-radiative processes lead during the post-discharge period to the establishing of thermodynamic equilibrium. Generally, all these processes are vibrationally specific. A special interest deals with the processes of metastables. In presented numeric model of nitrogen plasma, the vibrational distribution function (VDF...

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Theodore T. Allen, Shih-Hsien Tseng, Kerry Swanson, Mary Ann McClay Industrial & Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio President of St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital, Janesville, Wisconsin Process Excellence Black Belt, Sagata Ltd., Columbus, Ohio ABSTRACT This article describes the application of a five-phase Six Sigma define, measure, analyze, improve, and control (DMAIC...

Electrical discharging machining (EDM) has become an outstanding approach in the field of metal cutting especially for conductive metals. It’s very difficult to cut the conducting metals with the aid of traditional machining. The main object of the present work has to investigate the effects of various EDM input parameters like pulse on time (Ton) pulse off time (TOFF) as well as the influence ...

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that effective discharge planning is one of the key factors related to the quality of inpatient care and unnecessary hospital readmission. The perception and understanding of hospital discharge by health professionals is important in developing effective discharge planning. The aims of this present study were to explore the perceived quality of current ...