AIM This study examines the relationship between nurse/physician collaboration and patient length of stay (LOS). BACKGROUND The quality of nurse/physician relationships has been shown to have an impact on patient outcomes. As the acuity level of patients admitted to hospitals continue to rise, the need for collaboratively determined care is essential for avoiding errors and promoting quality....

Background: Unemployment among health professionals in Serbia has risen in the recent past and continues to increase. This highlights the need to understand how to change policies to meet real and projected needs. This study identifies variables that were significantly related to physician and nurse employment rates in the public healthcare sector in Serbia from 1961 to 2008 and used these to d...

Background: The continual rise of health workforce unemployment in the country indicates the need to explore policy and planning of the physician and nurse requirements in Serbia. The study aimed to identify variables that were significantly related to physicians and nurses’ employment in the public healthcare sector of Serbia from 1961 to 2008 and to forecast the physicians and nurse’ requirem...

We developed a novel system consisting of two modules, statistics-based synthesis and nonphotorealistic rendering (NPR), to synthesize caricatures of exaggerative facial features and other particular characteristics, such as beards or nevus. The statistics-based synthesis module can exaggerate shapes and positions of facial features based on non-linear exaggerative rates determined automaticall...

BACKGROUND Increasing attention is being given to the importance of communication in the delivery of high-quality healthcare. We sought to determine whether communication improved in a hospital setting following the introduction of an electronic medical record (EMR). METHODS This pre-post cohort design enrolled 75 patient-nurse-physician triads prior to the introduction of EMR, and 123 triads...

Understanding the determinants of patient mortality can lead to the development of strategies that reduce mortality and prevent unnecessary death. This paper synthesizes the body of published research that explores determinants of mortality for patients who have experienced acute care hospitalization. Fifteen research manuscripts were found to meet the selection criteria through an electronic s...

BACKGROUND Nurse-physician collaboration may be related to outcomes in health care-associated infections. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between nurse-physician collaboration and health care-associated infections in critically ill adults. METHODS A secondary analysis was done of 5 years of nurses' perception data from 671 surveys from 4 intensive care units. Ventilator-associated pneum...