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The Detection and Causality Assessment of Adverse Events Related to Natural Health Product Use in Community Pharmacies through the Implementation of Active Surveillance.
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Background: Natural health products (NHP) are widely used by the public. Since NHPs are pharmacologically active products, their ability to cause adverse reactions (AR) is present and well-documented. Currently employed passive surveillance systems are not well-equipped to detect NHP adverse...
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The Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set 2.0 Quality Indicators : A Systematic Review
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Johnson, C., Teare, G., Milke, D., Hutchinson, A.M., Maisey, S., Squires, J.E., Estabrooks, C.A.
Background: The Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) 2.0 is designed to collect the minimum amount of data to guide care planning and monitoring for residents in long-term care settings. These data have been used to compute indicators of care quality. Use of the quality...
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Understanding feedback report uptake: process evaluation findings from a 13-month feedback intervention in long-term care settings
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Gao, Gloria, Bucknall, Tracy, Maisey, Suzanne, Baylon, Melba A., Sales, Anne E., O'Rourke, Hannah M., Fraser, Kimberly
Background Long-term care settings provide care to a large proportion of predominantly older, highly disabled adults across the United States and Canada. Managing and improving quality of care is challenging, in part because staffing is highly dependent on relatively non-professional health care...
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Unregulated provider perceptions of audit and feedback reports in long-term care: Cross-sectional survey findings from a quality improvement intervention.
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Baylon, M. A., Fraser, K. D., Bostrom, A. M., Sales, A. E., Rourke, H. M.
Audit with feedback is a moderately effective approach for improving professional practice in other health care settings. Although unregulated caregivers give the majority of direct care in long-term care settings, little is known about how they understand and perceive feedback reports because...
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Vision-based Tracking of Worker Trajectories in Built Workplaces for Safety and Health Study
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Construction sites are the place where personnel and equipment work closely. In such workplaces, human movement dynamically adapts to the surrounding circumstances which are congested and continually changing. Acquisition of worker trajectories and measurement of physical value of workplaces,...
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What Makes a Project Safe? Identifying the Impacts Factors Have on the Safety Performance of a Construction Site through Use of Artificial Neural Networks
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What makes a construction project safe? This question prompted this research project. The goal was to identify factors and quantify their impact on the safety performance of construction projects. The first step in achieving this goal was to research key performance indicators in the area of...