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A large acute trust in the East Midlands looked to the US to inform its implementation of hourly rounding, otherwise known as intentional rounding. A combination of transformational leadership and meaningful interactions form the basis of a new approach to rounding--Caring around the Clock. The trus …

Bedside monitors in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) are known to produce excessive false alarms that could desensitize caregivers, resulting in delayed or even missed clinical interventions to life-threatening events. Our previous studies proposed a framework aggregating information in monitor …

In this paper, brain-machine interface (BMI) was adopted to investigate the motor area in the animal brain. Stainless steel wire electrodes were implanted to search the brain area for rotation, forward movement, and flapping. In continuation of our search for optimized coordinates for stimulation, w …

A decent guidewire behavior simulation is vital to the virtual vascular intervention training. The influence of blood flow has rarely been taken into consideration in former works of guidewire simulation. This paper addresses the problem by integrating blood flow analysis and proposes a novel guidew …

None of the tested intraoral scanning systems in this study were capable of recording a clear impression when the cervical margin for a posterior partial crown was located at a distance of less than 0.5 mm from the interproximal neighbor.

An alternative approach for the scale-up of ribbon formation during roller compaction was investigated, which required only one batch at the commercial scale to set the operational conditions. The scale-up of ribbon formation was based on a probability method. It was sufficient in describing the mec …

Repeated use and steam sterilization up to three-hundred cycles did not adversely affect the tensile strength of the rubber dam clamps. The clamps, in fact, demonstrated a higher tensile strength.

An integrated steel plant generates a large amount of blast furnace flue dust - about 18-22 kg/t of hot metal - as a by-product of the production process. The major component of this flue dust is iron oxides and coke fines. The recovery and reuse of this iron and coke is very important with increasi …

Clinical trials can fail to detect rare adverse events (AEs). We assessed the ability of pharmacological target adverse-event (TAE) profiles to predict AEs on US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug labels at least 4 years after approval. TAE profiles were generated by aggregating AEs from the FD …

As a nurse and supervisor of an acute surgical ward, I found the CPD article interesting because it identified ways to monitor staff performance continually. The approach to staff appraisal described was suitable for addressing poor performance and acknowledging good performance among nurses.

A multi-disciplinary simulation training course devised and implemented at Morriston Hospital is described. The participants in the simulation exercise included both medical and non-medical professionals in a pilot study intended to analyse the effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary approach to this …

Although it was not possible to acquire data from all the EU countries, this study shows the present state of electronic prescription in most of them and demonstrates continuous development in this area.

To address critical health equity issues facing racially and ethnically diverse populations, it is essential to have researchers from similarly diverse backgrounds. Such researchers provide different perspectives that may lead to distinct research questions, novel interpretation of findings, and inn …

The clinical nurse leader (CNL) is a relatively new nursing role, introduced in 2003 through the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). A narrative review of the extant CNL literature was conducted with the aim of comprehensively summarizing the broad and methodologically diverse CNL ev …

As part of its Raise the Voice campaign to showcase nurses who are key players in transforming health care, the American Academy of Nursing has identified nurses they call edge runners -"practical innovators who have led the way in bringing new thinking and new methods to a wide range of health care …

There is disagreement among nurses about the contribution of intentional rounding to patient care, particularly in light of the weak evidence base, time involved and associated documentation. Therefore, further research is needed in this area.