38 results match your criteria: "Católica Porto Business School[Affiliation]"

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  • The Portuguese clinical guidelines recommend 24 hours of hospital monitoring for patients with traumatic brain injuries, even when initial CT scans are normal, despite evidence suggesting this may be unnecessary and potentially harmful.
  • A study analyzed the costs and outcomes of this practice, comparing data from 440 patients admitted in 2022, where only 0.5% developed new intracranial lesions during a 24-hour observation period and one patient (0.2%) died from unrelated causes.
  • The current monitoring protocol cost €163,157, significantly more than the hypothetical scenario of discharging patients after an initial normal CT scan, which would have cost €29,480, highlighting a difference of €133,677.
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Creativity gain or drain: The dual association between boundary-spanning and creativity.

Acta Psychol (Amst)

February 2025

School of Business, Maynooth University, Ireland; Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School, Research Centre in Management and Economics, Portugal. Electronic address:

Boundary-spanning behavior, which involves building relationships with external entities to achieve organizational goals, has been highlighted as a key mechanism for enhancing the inflow of external knowledge. While boundary-spanning can fuel creativity by providing employees with new resources, ideas, and inspiration, it also poses challenges, potentially depleting resources and inducing stress that hinders creativity. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, this paper explores the dual impact of boundary-spanning on employee creativity-serving both as a facilitator and inhibitor.

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Recent research has shown a particularly positive association between Machiavellianism and academic major choices, namely Economics, Law, and Politics. Interestingly, previous findings indicated that the academic major Business - usually portrayed as power-hungry and greedy in mainstream media and movies - was not positively associated with Machiavellianism. In this paper, we posit that these prior results are incomplete since Business is a college major encompassing several sub-fields (e.

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Balancing is an essential challenge in healthcare systems that requires effective strategies. This study aims to address this crucial issue by suggesting a practical approach. We show the potential of balancing a regional healthcare system to improve its utility.

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In this study, we examine the association between Big Five personality traits and cigar or cigarette smoking in a sample of 9,918 older adults across 11 European countries derived from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset. We find significant associations between several traits and smoking groups. Smoking was associated with lower scores on Conscientiousness and Agreeableness and higher Extraversion scores.

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Future policy and research for advance care planning in dementia: consensus recommendations from an international Delphi panel of the European Association for Palliative Care.

Lancet Healthy Longev

May 2024

Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; Radboudumc Alzheimer Center and Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; Cicely Saunders Institute, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College London, London, UK.

Advance care planning (ACP) is increasingly recognised in the global agenda for dementia care. The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Taskforce on ACP in Dementia aimed to provide recommendations for policy initiatives and future research. We conducted a four-round Delphi study with a 33-country panel of 107 experts between September, 2021, and June, 2022, that was approved by the EAPC Board.

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A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review.

BMC Med Ethics

February 2024

CEGE: Research Center in Management and Economics - Ethics and Sustainability Research Area, Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal.

Background: The expressions of a "wish to hasten death" or "wish to die" raise ethical concerns and challenges. These expressions are related to ethical principles intertwined within the field of medical ethics, particularly in end-of-life care. Although some reviews were conducted about this topic, none of them provides an in-depth analysis of the meanings behind the "wish to hasten death/die" based specifically on the ethical principles of autonomy, dignity, and vulnerability.

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Background: Burns are a global public health problem, accounting for around 300,000 deaths annually. Burns have significant consequences for patients, families, healthcare teams and systems. Evidence suggests that the integration of palliative care in burn intensive care units improves patients' comfort, decision-making processes and family care.

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Background: People with Parkinson's disease has significant and increasing physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs, as well as problems with coordination and continuity of care. Despite the benefits that palliative care could offer, there is no consensus on how it should be delivered.

Aim: The aim of this study is to provide a pragmatic overview of the evidence to make clinical recommendations to improve palliative care for people with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers.

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Introduction: Existing advance care planning (ACP) definitional frameworks apply to individuals with decision-making capacity. We aimed to conceptualize ACP for dementia in terms of its definition and issues that deserve particular attention.

Methods: Delphi study with phases: (A) adaptation of a generic ACP framework by a task force of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC); (B) four online surveys by 107 experts from 33 countries, September 2021 to June 2022; (C) approval by the EAPC board.

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A comparison among optimization software to solve bi-objective sectorization problem.

Heliyon

August 2023

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School, Centro de Estudos em Gestão e Economia Porto, Portugal.

In this study, we compare the performance of optimization software to solve the bi-objective sectorization problem. The used solution method is based on an approach that has not been used before in the literature on sectorization, in which, the bi-objective model is transformed into single-objective ones, whose results are regarded as ideal points for the objective functions in the bi-objective model. Anti-ideal points are also searched similarly.

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Objective: To explore the experiences, needs and preferences of a group of parents regarding the parenting support received during prenatal and well-child care in the Portuguese National Health Service.

Design And Setting: We undertook descriptive-interpretive qualitative research running multiple focus groups in Porto, Northern Portugal.

Participants, Data Collection And Analysis: Purposive sampling was used between April and November 2018.

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This article assesses the relationship between consumer vulnerability (CV) and well-being (WB) by comparing the effects of ordinary (non-pandemic) and pandemic consumption contexts among Portuguese and Brazilian consumers. Data on pre-and post-pandemic perceived vulnerability and well-being from a cross-cultural sample of 397 consumers were analyzed through structural equations modelling using the PLS-Path. The results revealed an inverse relationship between CV and well-being, which worsened with the emergence of the pandemic.

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This article presents the Positive Leadership Action Framework (PLAF) to structure Positive Leadership (PL). The novelty of the PLAF is that it incorporates the connections of PL to positive outcomes (financial and economic performance and social well-being) and organizational virtuousness. Also, it acknowledges its conditional nature on the virtues to achieve flourishing within the organization and society at large.

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Climate Change Prevention through Community Actions and Empowerment: A Scoping Review.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

November 2022

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal.

As society tries to tackle climate change around the globe, communities need to reduce its impact on human health. The purpose of this review is to identify key stakeholders involved in mitigating and adapting to climate change, as well as the type and characteristics of community empowerment actions implemented so far to address the problem. Published and unpublished studies from January 2005 to March 2022 in English and Portuguese were included in this review.

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We uncover fundamental dimensions of the process through which organizations embed the practice of fraternity through embarking on an organizational journey in the direction of the common good. Building on the latest encyclical of Pope Francis, , about fraternal and social friendship, we offer insight into the understanding of what it means to become a fraternal organization and reflect on the key ethical and paradoxical challenges for organizations aiming at collectively contributing to the common good. We add to previous work by characterizing this journey as a process involving unique ethical challenges that emerge from the paradoxes associated with this process and how this might change the nature of the relationships between organizations and others within the organizational landscape.

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We examine the impact of health and economic conditions at birth on the adult outcomes of child immigrants using the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Our sample consists of children from 39 countries who were brought to the United States before the age of 13. We estimate immigrant outcomes as a function of the infant mortality rate (IMR) and GDP per capita of their home country in the year of birth, controlling for birth-year, year-of-arrival and country-of-birth fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics.

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Background: Serious video games have now been used and assessed in clinical protocols, with several studies reporting patient improvement and engagement with this type of therapy. Even though some literature reviews have approached this topic from a game perspective and presented a broad overview of the types of video games that have been used in this context, there is still a need to better understand how different game characteristics and development strategies might impact and relate to clinical outcomes.

Objective: This review assessed the relationship between the characteristics of serious games (SGs) and their relationship with the clinical outcomes of studies that use this type of therapy in motor impairment rehabilitation of patients with stroke, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy.

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Ramping up a heuristic procedure for storage location assignment problem with precedence constraints.

Flex Serv Manuf J

June 2021

Faculty of Economics, Universidade Do Porto, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-464 Porto, Portugal.

The retail industry is becoming increasingly competitive; as a result, companies are seeking to reduce inefficiencies in their supply chains. One way of increasing the efficiency of operations inside a warehouse is by better allocating products in the available spaces. In this paper, we propose a new heuristic approach to solving the storage location assignment problem (SLAP) considering precedence constraints, in multi-aisle, multi-product picking warehouses.

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Long-term stewardship is usually represented as a stable condition and portrayed as a source of competitive advantage to firms (including family businesses) that use it as a mode of governance. Less is known about how organizations engage with stewardship as a . We embrace a process approach to report a case study about the unfolding of stewardship in a multi-business family group.

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The study aims to test whether simple priming of deepfake (DF) information significantly increases users' ability to recognize DF media. Although undoubtedly fascinating from a technological point of view, these highly realistic artificial intelligent (AI)-generated fake videos hold high deceptive potential. Both practitioners and institutions are thus joining forces to develop debunking strategies to counter the spread of such difficult-to-recognize and potentially misleading video content.

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Background: Nurses are the largest regulated group of healthcare professionals involved in palliative care. In 2004, a taskforce of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) launched the 'Guide for development of palliative nurse education in Europe' (hereinafter, the EAPC 2004 Guide). No systematic evaluation of its impact in the development of palliative care education was undertaken.

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Ventral Caudate and Anterior Insula Recruitment During Value Estimation of Passionate Rewarding Cues.

Front Neurosci

July 2020

Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research, Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

"Wanting", a component of reward processing, is a motivational property that guides decision making in goal-oriented behavior. This includes behavior aiming at supporting relational bonds, even at the group level. Accordingly, group belongingness works as this motivational property, which is fundamentally different from romantic or maternal love.

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Background: Palliative care exists in diverse healthcare settings. Nurses play a crucial role in its provision. Different levels of palliative care provision and education have been recognized in the literature.

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Systems, economics, and neoliberal politics: Theories to understand missed nursing care.

Nurs Health Sci

September 2020

College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

The phenomenon of missed nursing care is endemic across all sectors. Nurse leaders have drawn attention to the implications of missed care for patient outcomes, with calls to develop clear political, methodological, and theoretical approaches. As part of this call, we describe three structural theories that inform frameworks of missed care: systems theory, economic theory, and neoliberal politics.

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