Since a patient record is typically a document updated by many users, required to be represented in many different layouts, and transferred from place to place, it is a good candidate to be represented structured and coded using the SGML document standard. The use of the SGML requires that the structure of the document is defined in advance by a Document Type Definition (DTD) and the document f...

Few computerized systems have been implemented and evaluated in nursing home systems. The purpose of this descriptive study is twofold: 1) assess the frequency of active alerts occurring in two nursing homes implementing an electronic health record (EHR) with a clinical decision support system; and 2) determine if clinical responses of health care workers are different when a clinical alert is ...

The Great American Cookie Experiment was developed by Thiel (1987) as an experiential strategy for teaching basic research concepts to undergraduate students. This original strategy has been adapted for online learning by substituting music for cookies (Sternberger, 2002) and revised for use with graduate students, RN to baccalaureate nursing, and practicing nurses. Current undergraduate nursin...

The objective was to propose the use of Fuzzy Logic for recognition of comfort patterns in people undergoing a technology of nursing care because of pemphigus vulgaris, a rare mucocutaneous disease that affects mainly adults. The proposal applied experimental methods, with subjects undergoing a qualitative-quantitative comparison (taxonomy/relevance) of the comfort patterns before and after the...

An objective structured long examination record (OSLER) is a modification of the long-case clinical examination and is mainly used in medical education. This study aims to obtain nursing students' views of the OSLER compared with the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), which is used to assess discrete clinical skills. A sample of third-year undergraduate nursing students (n=21) vo...

BACKGROUND Computerized decision support systems (CDSSs) have the potential to significantly improve the quality of nursing care of older people by enhancing the decision making of nursing personnel. Despite this potential, health care organizations have been slow to incorporate CDSSs into nursing home practices. OBJECTIVE This study describes facilitators and barriers that impact the ability...