The use of extended work shifts and overtime has escalated as hospitals cope with a shortage of registered nurses (RNs). Little is known, however, about the prevalence of these extended work periods and their effects on patient safety. Logbooks completed by 393 hospital staff nurses revealed that participants usually worked longer than scheduled and that approximately 40 percent of the 5,317 wo...

Background. The COVID-19 pandemic reached South Africa (SA) in March 2020. A national lockdown began on 27 2020, and health facilities reduced non-essential activity, including many surgical services. Objectives. Primary objective: to estimate the backlog Western Cape Province, SA, by comparing 2019 2020 general surgery operative volume proportion at six district regional hospitals. Secondary c...

Abstract The number and coverage of weather observations over the oceans were considerably reduced during World War II (WW2) due to disruptions normal trade routes. that do exist for this period are often unavailable science as they still only available paper records or scanned images. We have rescued detailed hourly contained in more than 28,000 logbook images US Navy Pacific Fleet stationed a...

BACKGROUND Entering data onto paper-based forms, then digitizing them, is a traditional data-management method that might result in poor data quality, especially when the secondary data are incomplete, illegible, or missing. Transcription errors from source documents to case report forms (CRFs) are common, and subsequently the errors pass from the CRFs to the electronic database. OBJECTIVE Th...