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Patient Safety and E-Health
Author Susan Burnett Programme Lead, Organisation and Management Group Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College London, United Kingdom [email protected] Since the publication in 1999 of arguably the most important call to action for patient safety, the Institute of Medicine's report 'To Err is...
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PAPT - Patient Admissions Prediction Tool
Author Justin Boyle, PhD Research Scientist The Australian e-Health Research Centre Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Queensland, Australia [email protected] Evidence-based research demonstrates that overcrowding in emergency departments causes ambulance diversion, increased hospital lengths...
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Telepresence Using Robots in Acute Care Facilities
Author Gilberto Felipe Vazquez de Anda , MD, PhD Head of Critical Care Robotics Department Hospital Materno Perinatal "Monica Pretelini", Instituto de Salud del Estado de México, México Professor - Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Autonoma del Estedo de Mexico [email protected]...
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Automated Hand Hygiene Monitoring
Authors Veronique M. Boscart, RN Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, iDAPT-Intelligent Design for Adaption, Participation and Technology, Canada, L. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing,University of Toronto,Toronto, Canada [email protected] Alexander I. Levchenko , PhD Toronto Rehabilitation Institute,iDAPT-Intelligent...
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ICU Care Prior to Admission to the ICU
Author Robert S. Green, BSc., MD, FRCPC, DABEM Department of Internal Medicine;Division of Critical Care Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia [email protected] The demand for ICU resources is high and continues to increase....
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Series on Early Mobilisation of Critically Ill Patients
Authors Radha Korupolu, MBBS, MS Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Immanuel Susai, MBBS Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD [email protected] > Dale M. Needham, MD, PhD Medical Director,Critical Care...
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Medical Technology & Healthcare Costs
Author Mathias Goyen , BSc., MD Chief Executive Officer (CEO) UKE Consult and Management Hamburg, Germany [email protected] Health policy makers have focused on cost containment, for the past several decades, as a means to deal with the rapid rise in healthcare costs in the western world. All kinds of measures have been introduced...
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Highlights of Health in Switzerland
Migration and Health Around a third of the Swiss population are people with an immigrant background. This means that they either immigrated to the country or were born here but have at least one parent who immigrated to Switzerland. Although a large proportion of immigrants are well integrated and their health is hardly any different from that...
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Outbreak of Cockroaches in an Intensive Care Unit
Authors Ilker Uçkay, MD Resident Infection Control Programme University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Geneva, Switzerland Sandrine Longet Di Pietro, RN Specialized nurse in infection control Infection Control Programme,University of Geneva Hospital and Faculty...
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Infection Control in the ICU: The Nurse Perspective
Authors Sonia O. Labeau , MNSc Faculty of Healthcare University College Ghent, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Ghent University [email protected] Stijn I. Blot , PhD Faculty of Healthcare, University College Ghent Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences...
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