Publications by authors named "Steven E Butt"
Modeling nurse-patient assignments considering patient acuity and travel distance metrics.
J Biomed Inform
December 2016
Article Synopsis
- Balancing nurse workloads is crucial for ensuring the satisfaction and safety of both nurses and patients, taking into account various types of care activities and environmental factors.
- The process of assigning patients to nurses is typically managed by a charge nurse who relies on experience and manual sorting, which can be time-consuming and complex.
- The paper proposes a new methodology for creating balanced nurse-patient assignments, introducing scoring metrics that can help address similar workforce scheduling challenges in various healthcare settings.
This research was designed to objectively investigate the desired low back (lumbar) support in a task chair; specifically by allowing a user to self-select the magnitude and location of support. An experimental chair built specifically for this study allowed the users to remotely adjust 35 diodes to achieve their desired level of support. Pressure mapping was used to measure the interface pressure at the user-seat back interface.
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