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Healthcare (Basel)
December 2024
Innovation in Dementia and Aging (IDEA) Lab, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
: Canada's long-term care (LTC) sector is struggling with a significant staffing crisis related to shortages, high-turnover rate, and challenging working conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these issues and emphasized the need for improved mental health support for LTC staff. Understanding and addressing the wellbeing of staff is important for ensuring quality of care and promoting a positive work environment for a healthy workforce.
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December 2024
College of Software and Digital Healthcare Convergence, Yonsei University, Wonju, Heungup‐meon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Background: As populations age, fostering the social participation of older adults is crucial to addressing issues like isolation. This study introduced a subject‐led social participation program to encourage independent engagement among older adults, utilizing a custom‐designed menu of activities. The program’s impact on social well‐being was assessed to explore its practical application and identify potential improvements.
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January 2025
Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
Background: During the recent years, emergency services in several countries have integrated video streaming into medical emergency calls, and research on the topic has gained increased focus. Video streaming during medical emergency calls may change dispatcher's perspective of the call and can be a helpful tool for supervising bystanders' first aid. Little research exists, however, about the caller's perspective of video streaming during a medical emergency call.
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January 2025
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
As marine heatwaves and mass coral bleaching events rise in frequency and severity, there is an increasing need for high-resolution satellite products that accurately predict reef thermal environments over large spatio-temporal scales. Deciding which global sea surface temperature (SST) dataset to use for research or management depends in part on the desired spatial resolution. Here, we evaluate two SST datasets - the lower-resolution CoralTemp v3.
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January 2025
Perioperative Outcomes and Informatics Collaborative, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Outcomes Research Consortium, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Most postoperative deaths occur on general wards, often linked to complications associated with untreated changes in vital signs. Monitoring in these units is typically intermittent checks each shift or maximally every 4-6 h, which misses prolonged periods of subtle changes in physiology that can herald a critical downstream event. Continuous monitoring of vital signs is therefore intuitively necessary for patient safety.
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