physical design of the emergency department (ed) has an important effect on its role and function. to date, no guidelines have been introduced to set the standards for the construction of eds in iran. in this study we aim to devise an easy-to-use tool based on the available literature and expert opinion for the quick and effective assessment of eds in regards to their physical design. for this ...

BACKGROUND Health facilities require teams of health workers with complementary skills and responsibilities to efficiently provide quality care. In low-income countries, failure to attract and retain health workers in rural areas reduces population access to health services and undermines facility performance, resulting in poor health outcomes. It is important that governments consider health w...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of the prospective collected American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to identify predictive factors for the need of discharging patients to a facility other than home after lumbar spine fusion surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Lumbar spine fusion surgery is a common surg...

the specialist needs of frail patients gives geriatric day hospital a distinct edge over any other outpatient service. Our experience of establishing a heart failure service for elderly patients based in the day hospital is an example of an innovative use of this resource. Elderly patient with possible heart failure were referred to the outpatient clinic but the patients had to make three to fo...

A series of experiments were carried out at the Radiation Effects Facility (RADEF) [1] in the Accelerator laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä. Experiments consisted in irradiating the memory arrays in vacuum with a variety of heavy ions. The effect of Linear Energy Transfer (LET) of incoming ion and component operating mode (static/active) [2] on the component failure mode (SEU/MBU/SEFI) ...

In this paper, a method to predict defect-related yield as a function of time for a semiconductor manufacturing facility is presented. The effect of contamination-related defects on yield, and the reduction in defect levels, resulting from failure analysis, have been considered. The developed yield learning model is incorporated in a prototype simulator ,Y4 ,which mimics both the fabrication an...

Neonatal acute liver failure is a rare, very severe disease with a high rate of mortality. It is clinically and etiologically different from acute liver failure seen in older children and adults. Coagulopathy with an international normalized ratio ≥ 3 is the critical parameter that defines it. The most common causes are fetal alloimmune hepatitis, previously called neonatal hemochromatosis, vir...

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Sana Al-Mutairi, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait. Tel. +965 (5) 319596. Fax. +965 (5) 338907. E-mail: [email protected] decade ago, the classical management of acute respiratory failure is the invasive ventilatory support with endotracheal intubation (ETI) at an intensive ...

Abstract: This paper presents a mathematical model for a multi-state complex repairable manufacturing system with four types of failures such as common cause, partial, human and catastrophic incorporating waiting time to repair. As regards to repairing of the system, it has to be wait for repair due to unavailability of repair facility after common cause failure. The system may also fail due to...

This paper addresses a reliable facility location problem with considering facility capacity constraints. In reliable facility location problem some facilities may become unavailable from time to time. If a facility fails, its clients should refer to other facilities by paying the cost of retransfer to these facilities. Hence, the fail of facilities leads to disruptions in facility location dec...