Publications by authors named "Jiunn-I Shieh"

Polymer gel dosimeters (PGDs) have been widely studied for use in the pretreatment verification of clinical radiation therapy. However, the readability of PGDs in three-dimensional (3D) dosimetry remain unclear. In this study, the pretreatment verifications of clinical radiation therapy were performed using an N-isopropyl-acrylamide (NIPAM) PGD, and the results were used to evaluate the performance of the NIPAM PGD on 3D dose measurement.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The Chinese version of safety attitudes questionnaire is used to evaluate patient safety culture from the viewpoints of physicians and nurses of a regional teaching hospital in Taiwan in 2014. This study applies Mann-Whitney U test for two independent samples test and analysis of variance to observe if different demographic variables are perceived differently in patient safety culture in terms of eight dimensions. In addition, linear regression models are applied to take into account the confounding effects of demographic variables in eight dimensions.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF