A total of 729 inpatients were surveyed using the MISSCARE Survey-Patient. Missed timeliness, patient reports of the time it took for them to receive care from nursing staff, was negatively associated with total nursing staff hours of care per patient-day (r = -0.09, P = .015), registered nurse (RN) hours per patient-day (r = -0.14, P = .0002), and RN skill mix (r = -0.13, P = .0004). RN skill ...

Compared to center-based hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) has many advantages among which cost effectiveness and comfort of patients are the most important ones. On the other hand the number of PD patients is so small and even decreasing worldwide due to difficulties of this mode of dialysis. Therefore to encourage dialysis patients to choose PD, health system must provide a proper s...

Abstract: Today networks are more and more used to implement distributed applications and, in particular, industrial applications like closed loop process control which require a timeliness service to guarantee their performances. The timeliness property depends on the message and task schedulings and the communication protocol. The goal of this paper is to present a pluridisciplinary work whic...

Introduction Syndromic surveillance system has been developed and implemented all over the world, and many studies showed that syndromic data sources had improved timeliness towards traditional surveillance method in the early warning of some infectious disease epidemics. However, owing to the uncertainties of disease epidemic features, clinical manifestations and population behaviors, the earl...

Salmonella Typhimurium is the most common bacterial cause of gastrointestinal disease in NSW. Regular review of surveillance procedures ensures system objectives are met and informs improvements in system utility and efficiency. This paper assesses the timeliness and data completeness of NSW Salmonella Typhimurium surveillance after the routine introduction of multilocus variable repeat analysi...

It is becoming widely accepted that along with the formal specification of functional properties it is necessary, in some systems, to provide a specification of timeliness properties. Unfortunately, the main methods which would seem to provide this form of requirement appear to be targeted at specifying communication protocols. While it is possible to adapt these methods for simple timeliness p...

We measured sensitivity and timeliness of a syndromic surveillance system to detect bioterrorism events. A hypothetical anthrax release was modeled by using zip code population data, mall customer surveys, and membership information from HealthPartners Medical Group, which covers 9% of a metropolitan area population in Minnesota. For each infection level, 1,000 releases were simulated. Timing o...

Timeliness of share price discovery is the speed at which value-relevant, private information is released and reflected in a firm‟s share price. As shareholder litigation is a common occurrence in the United States, it could affect the speed at which price discovery occurs. Managers can be personally named in securities class action litigation, and the choice to disclose information to the mark...

Many applications of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are designed for vital event monitoring and to ensure timeliness and reliability for the measured environmental values. The communication protocol needs to prioritize the real time data and ensure the timely delivery of the data to the sink node. In this paper, a routing protocol for WSN has been proposed with congestion and delay aware mode to...