To enable a natural and fluent human robot collaboration flow, it is critical for a robot to comprehend their human peers’ on-going actions, predict their behaviors in the near future, and plan its actions correspondingly. Specifically, the capability of making early predictions is important, so that the robot can foresee the precise timing of a turn-taking event and start motion planning and e...

Patient safety issues in Saudi Arabia have received increasing attention. Pressures to improve patient safety within academic healthcare settings are gaining momentum daily. Health care organization providers and policy makers continually strive to promote patient safety culture. The purpose of this study was to examine the nurses’ attitude toward patient safety culture in academic ambulatory h...

CONTEXT One palliative care approach that is increasingly being used at home for relieving intolerable suffering in terminally ill patients is continuous sedation until death. Its provision requires a multidisciplinary team approach, with adequate collaboration and communication. However, it is unknown how general practitioners (GPs) and home care nurses experience being involved in the use of ...

Nonphotorealistic Rendering (NPR) deals with representing pictures and animation in, as the name suggests, a nonphotorealistic fashion. While there is only one way to render a photorealistic image, in an NPR system we have the freedom to represent it in an unlimited number of ways. By varying the style of rendering, the image composition and the level of detail, by omitting or emphasizing certa...

The purposes of this article are to describe a physician (MD)/acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) intensivist model for delivery of critical care services in a tertiary academic medical center and to describe an innovative nurse practitioner educational program developed to support the model. In an effort to address the current shortage of intensivists, Vanderbilt Medical Center has developed ...

Abstract Background Informal carers contribute significantly to healthcare delivery in Switzerland. Many of them are experienced everyday practice and perform medication management procedures. Medication is a vital topic patient safety; however, there little knowledge about carers’ involvement the process. Design As part larger study with sequential mixed-methods design, this quantitative cross...

BACKGROUND Interprofessional collaboration improves the quality of medical care, but integration into inpatient workflow has been limited. Identification of systems-based factors promoting or diminishing bedside interprofessional rounds (BIR), one method of interprofessional collaboration, is critical for potential improvements in collaboration in hospital settings. The objective of this study ...