To stay or not to stay. The assessment of appropriate hospital stay: a Dutch report

To stay or not to stay? That is the question.

[Functionality and disability in old age: to stay still or not to stay still].

The goals of this study were to identify how community-dwelling elderly deal with the prospect of disability/functionality and to understand how the sociocultural context modulates this process. The study adopted a qualitative approach in which the signs, meanings, and actions model was used in the data collection and analysis. The study interviewed 57 elders ranging from 61 to 96 years of age ...

Nutritional assessment and length of hospital stay.

CMAJ • NOVEMBER 23, 2010 • 182(17) © 2010 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 1831 We have intuitively known for a long time that poor nutritional status in disease is associated with mor bidity and mortality. Only recently, however, have studies provided evidence of an association between poor nutritional status and prolonged hospital stay, decreased quality of life, and increased mo...

To stay or not to stay? A grounded theory study of residents' postcall behaviors and their rationalizations for those behaviors.

PURPOSE Although policies to restrict residents' duty hours are pervasive, resident adherence to restricted duty hours has proved challenging. The authors sought to describe residents' postcall behaviors and understand the dominant rationalizations underpinning their decisions to stay or not to stay after a 24-hour shift. METHOD Using constructivist grounded theory methodology, the authors co...

Covert Channels | Here to Stay? Covert Channels | Here to Stay?

We discuss the di culties of satisfying high-assurance system requirements without sacri cing system capabilities. To alleviate this problem, we show how trade-o s can be made to reduce the threat of covert channels. We also clarify certain concepts in the theory of covert channels. Traditionally, a covert channel's vulnerability was measured by the capacity. We show why a capacity analysis alo...