BACKGROUND This report is an introduction to a series of three research papers that describe the evolution of the approaches taken by the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) research team during its first four years to feed back the research findings to study participants. TREC is an observational multi-method health services research project underway in 36 nursing homes in the prairie pr...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of acceptable, reliable, and valid survey instruments to measure conceptual research utilization (CRU). In this study, we investigated the psychometric properties of a newly developed scale (the CRU Scale). METHODS We used the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing as a validation framework to assess four sources of validity evidence: content, response ...

En unité de gériatrie aiguë, les décès sont fréquents. Ils constatés par le médecin, qui prévient familles. Les soignants se mobilisent pour accompagner au mieux, selon leur souhait. La relation entre l’équipe et proches varie qu’ils ont été présents lors la fin vie ou pas. aides-soignantes assurent une présence discrète écoute bienveillante.

• (z)r and (z)i denote the real and imaginary part of z. II. CONSTRAINED CRAMER-RAO BOUND A. Problem Statement Problem statement and notation are based on [1]. • a: a K × 1 non-random vector which are to be estimated. • r: an observation of a random vector . • â (R): an estimate of a basing on the observed vector r . It is required that â (R) satisfies M nonlinear equality constraints (M < K), ...

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