Search results for "Prioritization"

Adult congenital heart disease: Special considerations for COVID-19 and vaccine allocation/prioritization

2021

Abstract Individuals with the highest risk for adverse outcomes of COVID-19 should be prioritized by the vaccine allocation policies. We have conducted a literature review of published studies, which comprehend congenital heart disease (CHD) and COVID-19, in order to present the overall evidences of both exposure and clinical risk of patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) and to propose a risk profile schema for those patients to be incorporated into vaccine distribution decisions.

Reappraisal of prognostic value of MELD-Na score: A new tool for liver transplant prioritization in HCV-infected patients

2014

Administration of care to older patients in transition from hospital to home care services: home nursing leaders' experiences

2013

Bjørg Dale,1 Sigrun Hvalvik21Centre for Caring Research – Southern Norway, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, 2Centre for Caring Research – Southern Norway, Faculty of Health and Social Studies, Telemark University College, Porsgrunn, NorwayBackground: Older persons in transition between hospital and home care services are in a particularly vulnerable situation and risk unfortunate consequences caused by organizational inefficiency. The purpose of the study reported here was to elucidate how home nursing leaders experience the administration of care to older people in transition from hospital to their own homes.Methods: A qual…

Clinical prioritizations and contextual constraints in nursing homes - a qualitative study

2010

Scand J Caring Sci; 2010; 24; 533–540 Clinical prioritizations and contextual constraints in nursing homes - a qualitative study Aim:  The aim of the study was to describe nurses’ and physicians’ experiences of prioritization factors in nursing homes. Background:  What are the experiences of health care personnel when prioritizing treatment and care for elderly residents in nursing homes? Little research has been done in this area, yet with the growing elderly population and limited health care budgets there can be little doubt about its relevance. Method:  The study was conducted through semi-structured interviews with 13 physicians and nurses in six nursing homes. The interviews were anal…

An information systems design product theory for the class of integrated requirements and release management systems

2010

High-tech companies conducting product development need to collect and analyze requirements effectively, plan and implement releases, and allocate requirements to appropriate releases. Requirements and release management are complicated because development activities typically are scattered across multiple sites, involve multiple partners in different countries, leverage various development methods and tools, and are realized through various organizational arrangements such as release projects in organizations structured around products and permanent release teams in organizations responsible for the long-term development and maintenance of strategic software and hardware assets. Flexible, …

Sustainability of national health services and justice: the case of new DAAs for HCV in Italy

2017

Background - Direct acting antivirals (DAAs) for hepatitis C virus (HCV) have quite changed the therapeutic routine in the last few years. Reported rates of sustained virological response (SVR), exceed 90% in all patients subgroups. Other, even more effective, DAAs combinations are being developed for use in the most difficult to treat and advanced patients, aiming for 100% of SVR in 100% of cases. The perspective is the eradication of HCV and reduction of main complications: liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Aim and Methodology - Dealing with justice issues related to DAAs for HCV in Italy through the anlysis of available literature and documentation. Results - The ethical prin…

Old or new occupants of energy rehabilitated buildings. Two different approaches for hierarchizing group of buildings

2017

Abstract Public Administrations are frequently entitled to intervene in building stocks with energy rehabilitation actions. Unfortunately, the monetary budget at their disposal is generally limited and, consequently, a prioritization criterion is needed to optimize its allocation. The classification of the building energy performance is increasingly used by Public Administrations for this purpose. Here we argue that a proper prioritization criterion should depend upon the potential subjects to which the rehabilitated buildings are given back. If the energy rehabilitation is conducted on buildings that will be assigned to new dwellers, it would be preferable to use the energy class – which i…

An Information Systems Design Theory for Integrated Requirements and Release Management Systems

2009

High-tech companies need to collect and analy- ze requirements and allocate them to appropriate product releases in market-driven product development. Develop- ment activities are typically scattered across multiple sites and involve multiple partners in different countries, complicating requirements and release management. Fle- xible, scalable, and secure groupware-based support for the activities provides substantial payoffs. Yet, the extant literature provides little theoretical guidance for designing and using requirements and release management systems in multi-site, multi-partner environments. This article de- velops the meta-requirements and a meta-design of an Information Systems De…

Combined HACCP and TOPSIS-based approach to prioritize risks in the salmon manufacturing process: A case study

2017

The food safety risk assessment is defined by the Codex Alimentarius Commission as the scientific evaluation of known or potential adverse health effects resulting from human exposure to food-borne hazards. Nowadays, the implementation of a systematic and disciplined risk assessment approach in the food safety field is recognized to be a powerful tool for carrying out science-based analyses and for reaching sound consistent solutions to food safety problems. With this recognition, a combined Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS)-based approach is proposed in the present paper to prioritize risks of t…

La toma inteligente de decisiones en los procesos de planificación de destinos turísticos de litoral: el plan de infraestructuras turísticas de canar…

2017

El Plan de Infraestructuras Turísticas de Canarias [PITCAN2017-2013] es un encargo de la Dirección General de Infraestructuras Turísticas de la Consejería de Turismo, Cultura y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias a un grupo de investigadores de la Cátedra de Turismo CajaCanarias‐Ashotel‐Universidad de La Laguna y del grupo de investigación de la ULL ReinvenTUR: renovación e innovación turística, a través de la Fundación General de la Universidad de La Laguna. El objetivo del plan es enumerar y priorizar las infraestructuras turísticas públicas a implementar en el período 2017-2023. Para el desarrollo de este objetivo se ha aplicado un proceso metodológico basado en la participación de agentes…