objective: triage procedure is one of the most important aspects of emergency departments as it has an undeniable role on the management of patients. it includes 5 categories based on the emergency severity index (esi) according to the condition of severity. for better decision making and management, it is important to have skillful and experienced nursing staff. in the current study, we aimed ...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the influence of organizational factors on occupational accident causation. A field study was undertaken and focused on the phase of concreting the floors of a residential block in a building project in Brazil. The methodological approach was based on the analysis of carpenters' work practices and of the workers' accounts of minor falls. Observations w...

abstract:   introduction: due to the importance of influenza type a (h1n1) as an epidemic disease as well as the type of educational method applied, this study investigated the effects of educational workshop method on students' influenza type a (h1n1)-related knowledge.   methods: in this quasi-experimental study 67 undergraduate students in school of health, isfahan university of medical scie...

Collaborative work appears between intelligent agents of different types. The problem discussed occurred when many construction workers were taken to Germany from Romania to work in construction projects. Managers have to make independent groups of workers from some categories, like carpenters, brick layers, etc. To discover their collaborative attitudes they use the scoring method, where every...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify occupations and industries with increased incidence of thyroid cancer in Swedish workers. METHOD Standardized incidence ratios were computed for each job and industry for the period 1971-1989 through record-linkage with the Swedish National Cancer and Death Registers. Age-, period-, geographically adjusted relative risks were calculated us...