Publications by authors named "Ling-Feng Zhu"

Quality improvement is an international priority, and quality education and training are important parts of hospital quality management. The aim of this study was to understand the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) and its influencing factors related to quality training in medical staff. A questionnaire survey was conducted by convenience sampling to assess the KAP of quality training in Taizhou Enze Medical Center.

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Background: Abusive supervision by the nurse manager significantly influences nurses' withholding voice about patient safety. The role of impression management motivation and speak up-related climate is crucial in understanding their connection. This study aimed to explore the relationship between abusive supervision, impression management motivation, speak up-related climate, and withholding voice about patient safety.

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Objective: Improving the satisfaction and medical experience of patients is a basic goal of the comprehensive reform of public hospitals in China. This study aimed to investigate the patient experience and its influencing factors, and to compare medical experiences between patients with and without chronic disease, with a view to providing suggestions for improving the quality of public hospitals in China.

Methods: A cross-sectional comparative study involving 102 patients discharged from Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, a tertiary public hospital in China, was conducted.

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Surface and bulk structure modification is an effective strategy to improve the photocatalytic performance of g-CN (CN). In this work, dilute NaOH solution was used to regulate the CN structure for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Characterization results indicate that after treatment with dilute NaOH solution, the surface of CN was hydroxylated, resulting in the change of CN structure and the increase of BET specific surface area.

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Unplanned surgery cancellation (USC) was an important quality management issue in the course of medical care for surgical patients, which caused inappropriate use of hospital resources and had negative impacts on quality and safety. This study used Lean Six Sigma to reduce the incidence of USC. Following the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) process, the main factors influencing the USC were identified, such as the time of informing patient admission, the time of submitting operation notice, and the management of test report follow-up.

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Various types of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have been used in urological tissue engineering but to date the existence of MSCs has not been reported in the human bladder. The present study provided evidence that a small number of MSC‑like cells exist in the human bladder and designated this class of cells 'human bladder‑derived MSC‑like cells' (hBSCs). It was demonstrated that hBSCs can be cultured to yield a large population.

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Article Synopsis
  • A study examined how prostate size affects the results of Plasmakinetic enucleation of the prostate (PkEP) for benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) by reviewing data from 892 patients.
  • The research identified four groups based on prostate size, noting that surgical efficiency increased with larger prostates, but complications and recovery times were similar across all groups.
  • Post-surgery, improvements in symptoms and urinary function were consistent among all prostate sizes, suggesting that PkEP effectively treats BPH regardless of prostate size.
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Aluminum coagulants are widely used in arsenic (As) removal during the drinking water treatment process. Aluminium chloride (AlCl3) and polyaluminium chloride (PACl) which contains high content of Al13 were used as coagulants. The effects of aluminum species, pH, humic acid (HA) and coexisting anions on arsenic removal were investigated.

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The low-heat-value cornstalk gas produced in the down-flow fixed bed gasifier was tentatively used for methanol synthesis. The cornstalk gas was purified and the technical procedures such as deoxygenation, desulfurization, catalytic cracking of tar, purification and hydrogenation were studied. The catalytic experiments of methanol synthesis with cornstalk syngas were carried out in a tubular-flow integral and isothermal reactor.

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