Governance regimes for major investment projects comprise the processes and systems that need to be in place on behalf of the financing party to ensure successful investments. This would typically include a regulatory framework to ensure adequate quality at entry, compliance with agreed objectives, management and resolution of issues that may arise during the project, etc., and standards for qu...

Patient dignity is a complex yet central phenomenon. Disrespect for dignity can mean retention of sick role, loss of self-care and control, decreased participation and therefore influence healing. At the same time, nurses have an obligation to respect dignity, and patients expect it. In clinical practice, with the focus on efficiency and economy, dignity can be compromised. The surgical patient...

BACKGROUND Although future climate is predicted to have more extreme heat conditions, the available evidence on the impact of these conditions on pregnancy length is very scarce and inconclusive. OBJECTIVES We investigated the impact of maternal short-term exposure to extreme ambient heat on the length of pregnancy. METHODS This study was based on a cohort of births that occurred in a major...

BACKGROUND/AIM The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of and risk factors for physical violence, verbal violence, and mobbing experienced by nurses in a university hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted at Gazi University Medical Faculty Hospital. A questionnaire form recommended by the WHO and the International Labor Organization was administ...

BACKGROUND In The Netherlands, health professionals have created a doctor-driven standardised system to report and analyse adverse outcomes (AO). The aim is to improve healthcare by learning from past experiences. The key elements of this system are (1) an unequivocal definition of an adverse outcome, (2) appropriate contextual information and (3) a three-dimensional hierarchical classification...

BACKGROUND Previous research revealed relationships between learning strategies and knowledge acquisition. During clerkships, however, students' focus widens beyond mere knowledge acquisition as they further develop overall competence. This shift in focus can influence learning strategy use. AIM We explored which learning strategies were used during clerkships and their relationship to clinic...

The present action research article is linked to an ergonomics project in a university hospital. The author's proposal is to focus action on the effective worker involvement required for the creation of spaces/mechanisms within organizations where people can enhance cooperation and deliberation on matters relating to work. For this purpose, a committee was introduced to assist in finding proble...

This paper analyzes the relationship between sustainability views, drivers and barriers and concrete procurement practices for sustainability in the German food service industry (FSI), building on earlier work of Rankin et al. (2011) on this topic. Further innovation lies in the explicit regard to product-specific differences in the importance and level of implementation of sustainable sourcing...

Taku Tsuchiya, Renata M. Wentzcovitch , Cesar R. S. da Silva, Stefano de Gironcoli 4, 5 and Jun Tsuchiya 1 Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan 2 Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, MN 55455, USA 3 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Technology and Advanced Computations, University of M...

INTRODUCTION Social vulnerability is known to be related to ill health. When a pregnant woman is socially vulnerable, the ill health does not only affect herself, but also the health and development of her (unborn) child. To optimise care for highly vulnerable pregnant women, in Rotterdam, a holistic programme was developed in close collaboration between the university hospital, the local gover...