Teleconsultation service to improve healthcare in rural areas: acceptance‚ organizational impact and appropriateness ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Abstract Background Nowadays‚ new organisational strategies should be indentified to improve primary care and its link with secondary care in terms of efficacy and timeliness of interventions thus preventing unnecessary hospital
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Weak-Form Efficiency of The GCC Markets Applying Selected Statistical Tests Rengasamy Elango‚ Mohammed Ibrahim Hussein This paper tests for market efficiency across the seven stock markets in the GCC (Gulf Co-operation Council) countries. The GCC countries‚ of late‚ have been striving to strengthen their capital markets by introducing various innovative changes in relation to listing‚ regulatory‚ trading and settlement norms in order to improve transparency and informational efficiency. Using daily
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Pakistan tobacco Company Ltd 2012 Efficiency and effectiveness of IT in Production and Supply chain Systems and Operations Management Aleem Arif www.ptc.com.pk Pakistan tobacco Company Ltd 2012 Efficiency and effectiveness of IT in Production and Supply chain Systems and Operations Management Aleem Arif www.ptc.com.pk Table of Contents Executive Summery2 Introduction2 Value Chain3 Competitive Advantage5 Production Process Structure6 Process Analysis and Design7 Supply Chain Design8
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Reference Coffman‚ J. M.‚ Seago‚ J. A.‚ & Spetz‚ J. (2002). Minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in acute care hospitals in California. Health Affairs‚ 21(5)‚ 53-64. Retrieved from http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/5/53.full.html In the article‚ Coffman‚ Seago‚ and Spetz (2002) questioned that mandating minimum nurse-to-patient ratios could eventually help to improve outcomes and conditions of both nurses and patients in acute care hospitals in California. They found that mandatory ratios
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lawmakers on how nurse patient ratio can affect the patient’s outcome but not much has changed over the years. Thirty years ago‚ when I was a new graduate nurse‚ I remember the exhausting 12-15 hour days I experienced working in a medical center‚ three days in a row and being responsible for fifteen patients while working with a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Certified Nurses Assistant. During that time I worked on a medical-surgical/telemetry floor where we also had patients on ventilators. Nurses
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The Patient Safety Movement Florida Institute of Technology According to patientsafetymovement.org (2013)‚ over 200‚000 patients die each year due to preventable causes. This is more than the number of deaths from lung‚ breast and prostate cancer combined. With such a high number of patients at risk of preventable death‚ the idea of patient safety moved to the forefront of medical discussions in the early 1990’s with the release of the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err is Human. The
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As times change and society evolves‚ customs and practices must evolve with them. An example of tradition conflicting with functionality is the idea that public schools are to be in session for nine consecutive months with a three-month break. The explanation is needed‚ as to why public school in session year round is a more efficient way to use time and resources than is a nine/three school year. The most important aspect of grasping the new age thought of year round education is to realize
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Asian Paints: Supply Chain Efficiency Introduction: Asian Paints is India ’s largest paint company and ranked among the top ten Decorative coatings companies in the world with a turnover of INR 66.80 billion. Asian Paints along with its subsidiaries have operations in 17 countries across the world with 23 paint manufacturing facilities‚ servicing consumers in 65 countries through Berger International‚ SCIB Paints – Egypt‚ Asian Paints‚ Apco Coatings and Taubmans. Asian Paints sells through some
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Patient Centered Outcomes Nursing 300: Foundations of Professional Nursing By: Jayme Shulman‚ RN 0ctober 28‚ 2012 America’s health care system has become very complex with a rise in health costs‚ patients with complex medical issues‚ and Medicare cuts. Nurses must find a way to juggle the health care industry while maintaining positive patient outcomes. Patients will either have good or bad outcomes during or after their care based on the decisions of the nurse and the interdisciplinary
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MRSA The patient safety problem of interest to me that I have chosen to talk about is MRSA. “MRSA” stands for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. Staphylococcus Aureus or “Staph Aureus” for short. ( SARI‚ 2007). MRSA is transferred from person to person through a bacteria (germs). Many people carry this germ. It is estimated that one in three people are carriers of this germ (CDC Gov 2013) but it is not always harmful - these people would have it on their skin or in their nose‚ but
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