BACKGROUND Over the last decade technology has rapidly changed the ability to provide home telehealth services. At the same time, pediatric palliative care has developed as a small, but distinct speciality. Understanding the experiences of providing home telehealth services in pediatric palliative care is therefore important. METHODS A literature review was undertaken to identify and critical...

OBJECTIVES We hypothesised that among nursing home decedents, nursing home for-profit status and poor quality-of-care ratings, as well as patient characteristics, would lower the likelihood of transfer to hospital prior to heart disease death. METHODS Using death certificates from a large metropolitan area (Tampa Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area) for 1998-2002, we geocoded residential st...

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccination is recommended for older people irrespective of cognitive decline or residential setting. OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of dementia diagnosis on flu vaccination uptake in community and care home residents in England and Wales. METHODS Retrospective analysis of a primary care database with 378,462 community and 9,106 care (nursing and residential) home resi...

Home security is refers to crimes prevention such as burglaries and kidnapping. As a preventive measure, a resident may install an ip camera but this method is quite costly because the resident needs to buy a personal computer, router, and software. Furthermore, this method also only benefit to the resident but not to the other neighborhoods. Consequently, the crime prevention in residential ar...

Home gardens are defined as less complex agroforests which look like and function as natural forest ecosystems but are integrated into agricultural management systems located around houses. Investigations were carried out in 187 households. The aim of the study was to identify the different types of banana home gardens existing in the periurban zone of Ngaoundere town. The results showed that t...

Glutamate signaling in prefrontal cortex and ventral tegmental area plays an important role in the molecular and behavioral plasticity associated with addiction to drugs of abuse. The current study investigated the expression and postsynaptic density redistribution of glutamate receptors and synaptic scaffolding proteins in dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex and ventral tegmental ar...

We present a new hierarchical location update and routing scheme for a wide area mobile computing environment with scalability of network hierarchy. Our scheme provides nearly optimal routing for most communication bypassing the mobile host’s home network and home agent. We use simulation to compare our scheme with other schemes in both non-hierarchical and hierarchical network architectures. C...

The first hour following the trauma is of crucial importance in trauma care. The sooner treatment begins, the better the ultimate outcome for the patient. Generally the initial treatment is handled by paramedical personnel arriving at the site of the accident with an ambulance. There is evidence to show that if the expertise of the on-site paramedic team can be supported by immediate and contin...