INTRODUCTION Mental health patients boarding for long hours, even days, in United States emergency departments (EDs) awaiting transfer for psychiatric services has become a considerable and widespread problem. Past studies have shown average boarding times ranging from 6.8 hours to 34 hours. Most proposed solutions to this issue have focused solely on increasing available inpatient psychiatric ...

1. Overview of the Japanese Childcare System Government plays a principle role in running of childcare system in Japan. In specific, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) is responsible for regulating new entries into the market by setting a minimum standard in staff-child ratio, space of nursery room per child and capacities etc. Moreover, about 70% daycare centers are licensed ones wh...

Citation: Redman-MacLaren ML, Klieve H, Mccalman J, Russo S, Rutherford K, Wenitong M and Bainbridge RG (2017) Measuring Resilience and Risk Factors for the Psychosocial Well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Boarding School Students: Pilot Baseline Study Results. Front. Educ. 2:5. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00005 Measuring resilience and risk Factors for the Psychosocial Well-being o...

We report the results of an experimental comparison of airplane boarding methods. This test was conducted in a mock Boeing 757 fuselage, located on a Southern California soundstage, with 12 rows of six seats and a single aisle. Five methods were tested using 72 passengers of various ages. We found a significant reduction in the boarding times of optimized methods over traditional methods. These...

In recent years, the use of Role-based Access Control (RBAC) has evolved within organizations such as the Government of Canada (GoC). However, it is not clear that existing on-boarding and off-boarding workflows have been influenced by the emergence of this technology. In this work, an Information Management (IM) case study is executed for one employee in the GoC. Results are summarized by huma...

Evolving concepts about the interwoven nature of physical and mental health have slowly, but incompletely, chipped away at the “reductionistic anachronism of mind/body dualism”1 that has historically separated them. The article, “Impact of Boarding Pediatric Psychiatric Patients on a Medical Ward,” in this edition of Hospital Pediatrics, however, highlights a series of challenges in which a pat...

Internet technology can balance entrepreneurs in their efforts to develop business ventures. Boarding house business. In Indonesia, especially Madura, educational centers are mushrooming, private colleges and universities. This is followed by an increase the number of houses or special buildings that offer boarding services for students who need them. The purpose this research make a prototype ...

This study examined the patterns and correlates of alcohol use in a Native American boarding school. Specifically, stressful life events, social support and emotional distress were associated with quantity as well as frequency of alcohol use in this population. A sample of 188 students (52% female) in grades 9-12 attending a boarding school in the midwest were administered self-report measures ...

AIM To determine how increases in surgical patient volume will affect emergency department (ED) access to inpatient cardiac services. To compare how strategies to increase cardiology inpatient throughput can either accommodate increases in surgical volume or improve ED patient access. METHODS A stochastic discrete event simulation was created to model patient flow through a cardiology inpatie...