In the context of wireless communication systems many applications oriented to parameter monitoring are developed, such as automatic tracking systems. In this paper, an automatic tracking system based on a network of presence and range sensors, is presented. The main goal is to offer a low cost alternative to increase security staff effectiveness and to avoid problems of scattered alarms manage...

This report describes 6 influenza outbreaks in residential care facilities during the 2014 influenza season in the Sydney Local Health District. Vaccination rates were high among residents (95%) and low among staff (39%). The majority of residents with laboratory confirmed influenza (67%) did not meet the influenza-like illness case definition.Positive influenza specimens were subtyped as H3N2 ...

To satisfy patients, fulfill demands of surgeons and operation theater staff and to proof a well-functioning operation theater an excellent management is needed. Operation theatre needs a great quantity of resources 4 to maintain a working function in any hospital . It’s always been a difficult and daring procedure, to improve the function and effectiveness of an operation theater in such a hos...

Quality Assurance is a management system designed to achieve an acceptable level of quality services, prevent poor quality and in laboratories is intended to ensure reliability of results. It comprehensively includes controlling the quality of procedures at each and every step including Pre-analytical (specimen collection and transport), Analytical (specimen processing in the lab) and Post-anal...

This study was undertaken to audit staff varicella policy for UK paediatric centres, and to estimate the cost-effectiveness of implementing a staff varicella vaccine policy. A telephone survey of 22 hospitals was performed to determine the policy regarding varicella immune status among healthcare workers (HCWs). All hospitals surveyed except one recorded immune status of informed HCWs, and had ...

BACKGROUND Use of complementary medicine is common, consumer driven and usually outpatient focused. We wished to determine interest among the medical staff at a North Carolina academic medical center in integrating diverse therapies and services into comprehensive care. METHODS We conducted a cross sectional on-line survey of physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants at a terti...

PURPOSE The objectives of this study are to describe organizational and safety culture in Canadian intensive care units (ICUs), to correlate culture with the number of beds and physician management model in each ICU, and to correlate organizational culture and safety culture. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, surveys of organizational and safety culture were administered to...

IT SHOULD come as no surprise to most nurses that the best and most experienced clinical members of wards or unit teams do not necessarily make the most effective managers. Yet employers persist in appointing senior clinical staff into ward or unit managerial posts, or worse, encourage clinical staff to take up managerial posts and then burden them further by asking them to retain clinica! resp...

BACKGROUND Involuntary weight loss resulting from malnutrition is a major problem among residents in long-term care facilities. Although body weight is easily measured, the evaluation of unintended weight loss in long-term care facilities is difficult. METHODS The Council for Nutritional Clinical Strategies in Long-Term Care, an expert panel of interdisciplinary thought leaders representing a...