using lean manufacturing in a hospital setting

... sustainability This approach makes it possible to separate interventions into sustainable and not sustainable, and investigate processes, barriers, and facilitators more accurately Using a measurable ... support in sustaining a hospital smoking cessation program by creating communities of practice and providing up-to-date research findings and ongoing training UOHI may also want to consider managing ... sustainable and unsustainable smoking cessation interventions by using a measurable definition of sustainability based on hospitals’ performance of the OMSC intervention relative to baseline...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... Economic and Social Research Council is greatly appreciated The usual disclaimer applies Appendix A Personal income taxation in the UK Table A1 Income tax and National Insurance in 1998/99 Income tax ... between his and her investment/savings income, and on a vector of other characteristics Living in London and having a child aged negatively in uences the male bar gaining position Men who are better ... woman to the man, which is captured by the change in the Yf UN variable Indeed, as discussed above, changes in the earning potential variable P (and its effect on bargaining power) are the same...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... Whom Canada Trades The primary trading partners of Canada are the United States and the European Union The majority of Canadian exports and imports involve manufactured goods © 2003 McGraw-Hill ... they can dominate the economy of a small nation © 2003 McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited 3 - 38 International Trade The volume and value of international trade have grown substantially over the last ... What and With Whom Canada Trades Balance of trade – the difference between the value of exports and the value of imports Balance of trade contains two components: The merchandise trade balance...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 17:20

... 16:97-101 Wakai T, Kanda T, Hirota S, Ohashi A, Shirai Y, Hatakeyama K: Late resistance to imatinib therapy in a metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumour is associated with a second KIT mutation ... acquisition and participated in data interpretation GB participated in data interpretation and manuscript revision MN participated in the acquisition and interpretation of the data MAP conceived ... There are several mechanisms involved in resistance like the activation of an alternative downstream signaling pathway such as AKT/mTOR, the activation of an alternate tyrosine kinase receptor and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... to analysis and interpretation of data He has been involved in drafting the manuscript AS has made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, as well as to analysis ... showed a statistically significant increase of >2 in relative risk [27] The infection risk of physicians was examined in various studies of varying quality Because of the inadequate data, it is ... LTBI among hospital employees at the University Hospital of Berne using the IGRA A total of 777 HCWs were investigated A positive IGRA was found for 59 (7,6%) [22] In addition Harada et al investigated...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... 16:97-101 Wakai T, Kanda T, Hirota S, Ohashi A, Shirai Y, Hatakeyama K: Late resistance to imatinib therapy in a metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumour is associated with a second KIT mutation ... acquisition and participated in data interpretation GB participated in data interpretation and manuscript revision MN participated in the acquisition and interpretation of the data MAP conceived ... There are several mechanisms involved in resistance like the activation of an alternative downstream signaling pathway such as AKT/mTOR, the activation of an alternate tyrosine kinase receptor and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... sequence is interleaved before data modulation A block interleaver used as channel interleaver in the simulation is of size 2a and 2b block interleaver, where a and b are the maximum allowable integers ... September 2001) H Gacanin, S Takaoka, F Adachi, OFDM combined with TDM using frequency-domain equalization J Commun Netw 9(1), 34–42 (2007) H Gacanin, F Adachi, PAPR advantage of amplitude clipped ... 1} One-tap MMSE-FDE [3] is applied to R(n) as s(t) Frame generation Info data JNm-point IFFT Data modulation Gacanin and Adachi EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... predictable and can be estimated from traffic and road-use data Figure indicates a typical daily travelling pattern of gasoline-driven cars in Japan It shows that 50% of gasoline-fuelled cars travel ... at: shinichi.inage.wk@hitachi.com or David Elzinga at david.elzinga@iea.org International Energy Agency Shin-ichi Inage WO R K I N G PA P E R Modelling Load Shifting Using Electric Vehicles in ... than 30 km per day, and that 30% of gasoline-fuelled cars travel less than 15 km per day Figure 5: Typical daily travelling patterns of gasoline-fuelled cars in Japan Source: Sagawa and Skaguchi,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... to all tested antimicrobial agents except for pencillin, ampicillin and co-trimoxozable Our observation was that resistance in carrier isolates was lesser than clinical strains in case of all antibiotics ... mupirocin applied twice daily for five days appears to be the most effective topical agent against MRSA [48-50] and eliminates 91% of stable carrier states By confining the investigation to nasal carriage ... for ampicillin (A) , gentamicin (G) and amikacin (Ak) resistance was transformed into Escherichia coli The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for A and G were lower in E coli than in S aureus...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:20

... practices are training practices providing vocational training for approximately 150 vocational dental practitioners per year In addition, 831 dentists and associated teams of dental healthcare ... times that a multidisciplinary team has taken forward the challenge of systematically and incrementally developing and evaluating a practical, generalisable framework for KT that incorporates consideration ... beliefs regarding barriers, facilitators, advantages, and disadvantages that relate to each behavioural outcome [25] The findings are used to inform intervention design Data that could inform judgements...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Intermediate Care Unit Pain was managed using Paracetamol and Piritramid intravenously as needed After the surgery, the boy complained of a relapsing upper abdominal pain Laboratory parameters showed increased ... anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation was performed as total intravenous anaesthesia using Propofol and Fentanyl Cisatracurium was used as a muscle relaxant Surgery was performed with an arrest ... patients are in danger of increased perioperative mortality and have a reduced life expectancy In particular, conditions such as hypothermia, hypoxia, acidosis and dehydration in the perioperative...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... study and its design, was the project manager, participated in the drafting of treatment manuals, performed treatments, and participated in analysis and interpretation of data as well as drafted ... study and its design, in the drafting of treatment manuals as well as in the revision of the manuscript PC participated in the drafting of treatment manuals, in analysis and interpretation of data, ... knowledge, Internet-based treatment has not been evaluated in a randomised trial in a regular psychiatric health care setting for any psychiatric disorder Research designs in regular care settings...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... (Netherlands); Dr Trond Aarre (Norway); Prof Filipe Arriaga (Portugal); Dr Ana Gonzalez Pinto (CIBERSAM, Spain); Dr Josep Maria Haro (CIBERSAM, Spain); Prof Eduard Vieta (CIBERSAM, Spain); Prof ... weeks onwards), resulting in a decrease in sample size after the 12 weeks (Switzerland, Denmark, Germany and Spain only participated in the acute phase) Apart from the decrease in overall sample ... nigrostriatal DA tract in the brain [5] Research indicates that EPS (defined as parkinsonism, akathisia and acute dysto- http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/16 nia) represents a vulnerability...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... use was defined as not always using a condom during vaginal and anal intercourse with all regular and casual partners [10,11] Pearson's chi-square test was used to determine the factors associated ... Kain, and Calvin Lai for their research and administrative assistance The study was supported by the US National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Brandon ... that the research protocols were in accordance with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Guidelines for Health Research Involving Aboriginal People [8] All participants who completed a baseline...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... pain imaginable) [14,15] and LBP-related disability was measured using an Oswestry Disability Questionnaire (ODQ) [16] The Mechanical and Inflammatory Low Back Pain Scale (MAIL Scale) Also at ... your pain develop later in the day? Do you have pain associated with: Standing for a while? Lifting? Bending forward a little? Bending forward as far as you can? Arching backwards? Doing or attempting ... Mail Scale Raw Scores An additional file containing the raw data of 50 subjects for individual items on the MAIL Scale Additional file 2: Mail Scale Variable Legend An additional file containing...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... goals for each individual is guided by data from that initial assessment, and a curriculum inventory and sequence that lists skills in all domains (learning to learn, communication, social, academic, ... sequential graphic agendas of work are used Data are graphed to provide visual pictures of what is happening with each skill and each maladaptive behaviour targeted for treatment The data are reviewed ... discriminating power [31] Scores for each domain range from to 10 on an analogue scale The questionnaire was administered after and years from entry into the service Statistical analysis The intraclass...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... the tracheostomy and translaryngeal groups (see Table 1); we further analyzed the data by performing a case-matched comparison All demographic and clinical variables shown in Table with P values ... Several continuous variables were categorized by median value (albumin and BUN) or a clinically meaningful cut-off point (APACHE II score) for logistic regression Data were analyzed by using SAS ... herein We also found that RCC and in- hospital lengths of stay and total MV days were significantly increased in tracheostomy compared with translaryngeally intubated patients These findings are consistent...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... analysed using parametric t-test Pain and nausea scores were analysed using non-parametric test (Mann-Witney) and sedation, nausea and vomiting scores were analysed using Chi-Square tests An initial ... various injuries and those requiring manoeuvring and splinting is ketamine Ketamine offers a safe and effective analgesia since this agent avoids the potential decrease in blood pressure and respiratory ... and hemodynamic parameters compared to morphine sulphate alone in a prehospital setting in patients with bone fractures This study shows adequate analgesia from small doses of additional ketamine,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:21

... are teaching aids ? Definition: According to Peter Wingard in Teaching English as an international Language – A Practical Guide – teaching aids are any thing from a detailed syllabus, a text ... convinient and effective use in a language class Tæ KHXH – English Group Using teaching aids in a language class – By Truong Quang Khanh  Audio-visual aids: Audio visual aids are the combination ... Now say “walking“ Tæ KHXH – English Group Using teaching aids in a language class – By Truong Quang Khanh Sts: Walking, walking T: Are you walking now ? Sts: No, we aren’t We are sitting at the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2014, 12:26

... while some fast classification methods are used to remove vegetation in the training area 4.3.1 Training area The training area is a small area defined in the image Since road color samples will ... function A crucial parameter of this method is the angle of invariance θ Originally, this angle was obtained via a calibration procedure, involving using the calibrated camera to capture images in ... Brightness-invariant feature [20] Remarks Invariant to brightness Invariant to brightness Invariant to brightness Not invariant to intra-image changes, e.g shadows Not invariant to intra-image changes,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:38