Smart Products pose a new class of IT artifacts based on sensors, ID-tags, haptic user interfaces, and other technologies usually subsumed under the notion of 'ubiquitous computing'. Such devices differ in many ways from traditional computers, e.g., with regard to their physical shape, computing power, and interaction paradigms. While a substantial body of literature already exists on underlyin...

INTRODUCTION Malnutrition is very common in hospitals and inpatients with prescription of oral nutritional supplementation have improvement of the nutritional status. OBJECTIVES To detect the total acceptance rate and a possible association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out among 398 inpatients. Fifteen types ...

INTRODUCTION In Argentina, every year, 3000 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed and more than 2000 deaths occur as a result of this disease. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main risk factor for cervical carcinogenesis. OBJECTIVES To establish the extent of acceptance of HPV vaccines and associated factors among legal guardians of candidate girls in an area of Resistencia, Chaco. ME...

BACKGROUND The total cost of treating otitis media in the United States alone is estimated at > 3.5 billion dollars annually. Therefore treatment approaches that reduce the cost of managing otitis media can have a large impact on overall health care costs. METHODS In this study cost effectiveness factors of various antimicrobial agents, such as adverse events and overall patient acceptance, w...

The objective of this study was to investigate the satisfaction and acceptance of a structured diagnostic interview in clinical practice and in a research setting. Using the Structured Diagnostic Interview for Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents (Kinder-DIPS), 28 certified interviewers conducted 202 interviews (115 with parents, 87 with children). After each interview, children, parent...

The role of information technology (IT) in education has significantly increased, but resistance to technology by public school teachers worldwide remains high. This study examined public school teachers’ technology acceptance decision-making by using a research model that is based on key findings from relevant prior research and important characteristics of the targeted user acceptance phenome...

CONTEXT There have been very few randomized controlled treatment studies of anorexia nervosa. OBJECTIVE To evaluate factors leading to nonacceptance and noncompletion of treatment for 2 specific therapies and their combination in the treatment of anorexia nervosa. DESIGN Randomized prospective study. SETTING Weill-Cornell Medical Center, White Plains, NY; University of Minnesota, Minneapo...

AIMS Modern implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) place increasing demands on the physician, as their complexity requires more and more knowledge and effort in handling them. To overcome this problem an implant-assistant has been developed, which transfers clinical data entered by the physician into a complete set of parameters for programming a dual-chamber ICD (Tachos-DR, Biotronik, ...