Abstract Aim To improve the documentation of vital clinical information on urology ward round. prompt staff to review antibiotics, venous thromboprophylaxis, patient observations, and formulate a plan in structured format. Method A retrospective, cross-sectional analysis was performed assess whether following parameters were documented/accounted for during ward-round: date, time, NEWS score, en...

The goal of this paper is to propose improvements to the ACA (Ant-based Clustering Algorithm), and evaluate its performance relative to the Ward Method; to the One-dimensional Kohonen Maps and to the ACAM (Ant-based Clustering Algorithm Modified) algorithm. The algorithm containing the improvements will be referred here by “proposed” algorithm. Its the main changes were: the introduction of a c...

Constructions are given of families of loops which can be described in terms of the table obtained from the loop by using the operation of right division. The motivation comes from group representation theory and the group matrix which goes back to Frobenius.

A topological procedure for computing correlation functions for any (1, q) model is presented. Our procedure can be used to compute any correlation function on the sphere as well as some correlation functions at higher genus. We derive new and simpler recursion relations that extend previously known results based on W constraints. In addition, we compute an effective contact algebra with multip...

A model of home-based coordinated care deployed recently in the United Kingdom offers promise in reducing hospital admissions in a relatively low-cost manner. The “virtual ward” program provides multidisciplinary case management services to people who have been identified, using a predictive model, as high risks for future emergency hospitalization. Virtual wards use the systems, staffing, and ...

An admission lounge is an emerging type of hospital facility that potentially improves the efficiency and efficacy perioperative process. We propose a five-step approach for design, suitability assessment, optimisation lounge. The uses case mix method to select patients lounge, clinical ward, or both. Also, it determines required ward capacities using Erlang loss model combined with novel analy...

One of the main features of ward rounds is the professional conversation that occurs between doctors and nurses. Such conversation needs to be perfected to avoid iatrogenic harm and increase efficiency. This article looks at data collected from 146 consultant-led medical ward rounds at a hospital trust using the Caldwell considerative checklist process (Herring et al 2011) to identify the frequ...

BACKGROUND Stroke complications can occur not only in the acute ward but also during the subsequent rehabilitation period. However, existing studies have not adequately addressed the incidence of various complications among stroke in patients undergoing rehabilitation using a longitudinal method. We aimed to investigate the longitudinal impact of age on complication rates in patients undergoing...

The role of a junior doctor involves preparing for the morning ward round. At a time when there are gaps on rotas and doctors' time is more stretched, this can be a source of significant delay and thus a loss of working time. We therefore looked at ways in which we could make the ward round a more efficient place by introducing specific electronic, printed ward round proformas. We used the aver...