BACKGROUND Emergency department (ED) delays have multiple causes and create frustration for patients and staff alike. METHODS New adult psychiatric ED consultations were studied. Elapsed time between workflow stages was tested as a predictor of total time from triage to disposition. To expedite interviews a one-page form was provided for interested patients to complete before psychiatric eval...

which the authors seek to cover in a small sized book of some 250 pages. In general this book is undistinguished from a number of others now available for those of the public who wish to be informed on these matters. Certain subjects which these authors discuss show that they lack familiarity with the writings of many leaders in obstetrics in the English-speaking world. I refer to those portion...

The rooming-in system is the practice of placing the baby in the same hospital room as the mother, where care is provided by a single therapeutic team. In Poland, the organization of work in the rooming-in system is of twofold character. These are either separate wards taking care of the mother and her baby, functioning as one maternity ward, or it consists of two organizational units – obstetr...

We compared the maternal behaviors of women who had extended and early contact (rooming-in) with their infants with those who had contact only during feedings. Thirty-one young, unmarried, predominantly black, lower-socioeconomic mothers and their infants were observed in the mother's hospital room for 15 minutes after a morning feeding approximately 18 hours after delivery. A time sample unit ...

This work explores the edge agreement problem of second-order multi-agent system with dynamic quantization under directed communication. To begin with, by virtue of the directed edge laplacian, we derive a model reduction representation of the closed-loop multi-agent system depended on the spanning tree subgraph. Considering the limitations of the finite bandwidth channels, the quantization eff...

Considering the need of parameters to know the workload existent in Rooming-in (RI), it is imperative to identify nursing activities in the mother-child binomial. The objectives of the study are: to identify nursing activities in the Rooming-In Unit of the HU-USP; to classify activities in nursing interventions according to the Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC), and to validate the inte...