Publications by authors named "P J Holliday"
Background: A Strategic Guiding Council (SGC) was created within a Family Carer Decisions Support study, to engage family carers of persons with advanced dementia as advisors to inform the design and implementation of the study. The SGC consists of an international group of family advisors from Canada, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. There are limited studies that have explored the integration of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in dementia research, end-of-life care and long-term care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To quantify mobility scooter performance when traversing snow, ice, and concrete in cold temperatures and to explore possible performance improvements with scooter winter tires.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Setting: Hospital-based research institute.
Toward mitigating pressure injuries: Detecting patient orientation from vertical bed reaction forces.
J Rehabil Assist Technol Eng
April 2020
Article Synopsis
- - Prolonged bed rest can cause pressure injuries, and a new alert device is proposed to help caregivers by tracking patients' orientations in bed using load cells for improved repositioning adherence.
- - In a study with 20 individuals, participants were placed in different bed orientations to test machine learning systems for accurately identifying positions based on breathing patterns captured by force data.
- - The Feed Forward Neural Network achieved a high orientation prediction accuracy of 94.2%, indicating its potential for developing effective tools to prevent pressure injuries.
Background: Improving hand hygiene compliance among healthcare professionals is the most effective way to reduce healthcare-acquired infections. Electronic systems developed to increase hand hygiene performance show promise but might not maintain staff participation over time. In this study, we investigated an intermittent deployment strategy to overcome potentially declining participation levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hand hygiene (HH) compliance in health care is usually measured against versions of the World Health Organization's "Your 5 Moments" guidelines using direct observation. Such techniques result in small samples that are influenced by the presence of an observer. This study demonstrates that continuous electronic monitoring of individuals can overcome these limitations.
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