Background: Patients often fail to adhere to clinical recommendations when using current blood pressure self-measurement (BPSM) methods and equipment. As existing BPSM equipment is not able to detect nonadherent behavior, this could result in misdiagnosis and treatment error. To overcome this problem, we suggest introducing an alternative method for achieving reliable BPSM by measuring addition...

medical environments such as hospital waiting rooms can affect a client’s anxiety level as wellas psychological and physiological responses to his or her situation. the aim of this research was to evaluatethe use of environmental design, specifically the design which incorporates elements of nature, in clinics andhospitals to decrease anxiety, blood pressure and pulse rates of waiting clients. ...

medical environments such as hospital waiting rooms can affect a client’s anxiety level as wellas psychological and physiological responses to his or her situation. the aim of this research was to evaluatethe use of environmental design, specifically the design which incorporates elements of nature, in clinics andhospitals to decrease anxiety, blood pressure and pulse rates of waiting clients. ...

In this article, we present a continuous review perishable inventory systemwith a service facility. The service facility consists of a single server and a finite waiting room. If the arriving primary customer finds the waiting hall is empty and the server is idle, he immediately joins the service. The demanded items are issued by a server after some random time due to service on it. We assume t...