This paper presents a quick prototyping of a mobile wireless sensor network (WSN) in healthcare applications that provides multiple interfaces with various access rights to different personnel involved in medical systems such as patients, healthcare providers, and system administrators. The prototype demonstrates a seamless access from constantly sensing patients’ vital signs to long term medic...

The cost of services provided by public and private healthcare systems is nowadays becoming critical. This work tackles the criticalities of hospital equipments and drugs management by emphasizing its implications on the whole healthcare system efficiency. The work presents a multi-agent based model for decisional cooperation in order to address the problem of integration of departments, wards ...

To explore the efficacy of four vaccine-based policy strategies (ring vaccination, targeted vaccination, mass vaccination, and pre-vaccination of healthcare personnel combined with ring vaccination) for controlling smallpox outbreaks in Sweden, disease transmission on a spatially explicit social network was simulated. The mixing network was formed from high-coverage official register data of th...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate Universal Precautions (UP) compliance in the operating room (OR). DESIGN: Prospective observational cohort. Trained observers recorded information about (1) personal protective equipment used by OR staff; (2) eyewear, glove, or gown breaks; (3) the nature of sharps transfers; (4) risk-taking behaviors of the OR staff; and (5) needlestick injuries and other blood and bodyf...

People with learning disabilities often experience health inequalities and barriers to healthcare services as a result of poor communication and discriminatory attitudes. We developed an educational package for healthcare staff as well as an attitude questionnaire to measure the impact of this training; the questionnaire is called the Attitudes of Secondary Healthcare Personnel Toward People wi...

Healthcare is characterized by close collaboration and information sharing among many distinct actors, who co-operate for the patient care in different temporal moments, also at a distance. In this context, availability to care givers of all relevant patient health data and of specific healthcare co-operative work supporting tools is fundamental for best patient treatment. We designed and imple...

Background: Musculoskeletal system disorders are the most important and frequent cause of work-related health issues. Chronic pain due to musculoskeletal can give rise disability, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances resulting in poor quality life. These problems frequently encountered many business areas, especially field healthcare. This study aimed investigate location severity healthcare...