PURPOSE To determine whether the introduction of an electronic nursing documentation system in a nursing home reduces the proportion of time nursing staff spend on documentation, and to use this information in evaluating the usefulness of the system in improving the work of nursing staff. METHODS An observational work sampling study was conducted in 2009 and 2010, 2 months before, and 3, 6 an...

PURPOSE To describe nursing assessment documentation practices in aged care organizations and to evaluate the quality of electronic versus paper-based documentation of nursing assessment. METHODS This was a retrospective nursing documentation audit study. Study samples were 2299 paper-based and 6997 electronic resident assessment forms contained in 159 paper-based and 249 electronic resident ...

BACKGROUND Although National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is an important prognostic variable, it is often incompletely documented in clinical registries, such as Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke. We describe trends in NIHSS documentation by GWTG-Stroke hospitals, identify patient-level and hospital-level factors associated with documentation, and determine the degree to which...

If there is no documentation, then it didn’t happen! This philosophy is the standard in all health care settings as physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, social workers, and other health care providers generate and maintain detailed notes regarding the patient’s situation and their efforts to achieve the best possible outcomes for the patient. Documentation chronologi...

The Energy-Fidelity software performs a number of functions shown below. Data collection and conversion to the correct TDMS format are not included in the installer versions of the software and the assumption is that this is done specific to the data collection platform being used. This software used the TEMPO BSN with a conversion program to convert between the default XML data file format and...

This paper describes and discusses two different Scheme documentation tools. The first is SchemeDoc, which is intended for documentation of the interfaces of Scheme libraries (APIs). The second is the Scheme Elucidator, which is for internal documentation of Scheme programs. Although the tools are separate and intended for different documentation purposes they are related to each other in sever...

Node top level interface representing visualization nodes AnimatedBody represents an animated, humanoid body; it provides methods for walking and running, movement of arms and hands, grasping and dropping objects,

EDITORIALS 401 live” dosage of irradiation therapy. About 50 percent of these patients achieve good palliation of their disease for periods of a few months to over one year. Those with no demonstrable spread of tumor beyond the confines of the esophagus are taken directly to surgery, where esophagogastrostomy is our preferred operative procedure. Patients who have localized extension of tumor b...

The apparent goal of this assignment is to create an efficient set of modifications to image files using image filters. Additionally the assignment can be used to review basic functions and debugging within the IDE that the student is using for eclipse. My personal goals were to familiarize myself with JAVA as a language again and then to create efficient functions with efficient runtime comple...