The objective of this study, conducted at a large financial services organisation in Australia, was to examine the effect of peer timeliness and peer communication predictability on cognition-based trust in virtual workers. The results indicated that neither timeliness nor predictability explained a notable amount of variance in the level of cognition-based trust in virtual workers. Peer timeli...

BACKGROUND Early knowledge of influenza outbreaks in the community allows local hospital healthcare workers to recognise the clinical signs of influenza in hospitalised patients and to apply effective precautions. The objective was to assess intra-hospital surveillance systems to detect earlier than regional surveillance systems influenza outbreaks in the community. METHODS Time series obtain...

OBJECTIVES Assessing timeliness and completeness of vaccine administration is important for evaluating the effectiveness of immunization programs. Few studies have reported timeliness, particularly in Canada. The objective of this study was to examine timeliness of the receipt of vaccination for each routine childhood recommended vaccine by 24 months of age among children in a community-based p...

Various concurrency control algorithms di er in the time when con icts are detected, and in the way they are resolved. In that respect, the Pessimistic and Optimistic Concurrency Control (PCC and OCC) alternatives represent two extremes. PCC locking protocols detect con icts as soon as they occur and resolve them using blocking. OCC protocols detect con icts at transaction commit time and resol...

1 Embedded real-time applications that interact with the outside environment may be subjected to temporal uncertainty due to the potential asynchronous characteristics of events. If event handling, which is usually associated with interrupts, is not carefully controlled, overload scenarios can cause application tasks to miss deadlines, with severe consequences. In this paper we address the prob...

BACKGROUND Child survival is dependent on several factors including high vaccination coverage. Timely receipt of vaccines ensures optimal immune response to the vaccines. Yet timeliness is not usually emphasized in estimating population immunity. In addition to examining timeliness of the recommended Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI) vaccines, this paper identifies predictors of untimel...

BACKGROUND A timely detection of outbreaks through surveillance is needed in order to prevent future pandemics. However, current surveillance systems may not be prepared to accomplish this goal, especially in resource limited settings. As data quality and timeliness are attributes that improve outbreak detection capacity, we assessed the effect of two interventions on such attributes in Alerta,...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the factors associated with the timeliness of electronic nursing documentation using the entry time on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. METHODS As a retrospective study, data were extracted from January 1 to February 28, 2014 from a hospital EMR system and a nurses' personnel information system. The timeliness of instances of nursing documentation was cate...

There are few data, especially outside the United States, examining the timeliness of childhood vaccination, although it is of key importance for diseases such as pertussis, and invasive disease due to Haemophilus influenzae type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae. The aim of this study was to use the unique resource of the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) to examine trends in and ...

Hepatitis A outbreaks may be averted if detected early. The current study objectives were to evaluate the quality and timeliness of hepatitis A surveillance data from Yunnan Province, China, and to evaluate the sensitivity of the system for reporting outbreaks. The study period was from January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2009. Records from the National Infectious Diseases Surveillance System ...