Front-Line Physicians' Satisfaction with Information Systems in Hospitals

Day-to-day operations management in hospital units is difficult due to continuously varying situations, several actors involved and a vast number of information systems in use. The aim of this study was to describe front-line physicians' satisfaction with existing information systems needed to support the day-to-day operations management in hospitals. A cross-sectional survey was used and data chosen with stratified random sampling were collected in nine hospitals. Data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The response rate was 65 % (n = 111). The physicians reported that information systems support their decision making to some extent, but they do not improve access to information nor are they tailored for physicians. The respondents also reported that they need to use several information systems to support decision making and that they would prefer one information system to access important information. Improved information access would better support physicians' decision making and has the potential to improve the quality of decisions and speed up the decision making process.Peer reviewe

Factors Influencing Customer Satisfaction towards E-shopping in Malaysia

Online shopping or e-shopping has changed the world of business and quite a few people have decided to work with these features. What their primary concerns precisely and the responses from the globalisation are the competency of incorporation while doing their businesses. E-shopping has also increased substantially in Malaysia in recent years. The rapid increase in the e-commerce industry in Malaysia has created the demand to emphasize on how to increase customer satisfaction while operating in the e-retailing environment. It is very important that customers are satisfied with the website, or else, they would not return. Therefore, a crucial fact to look into is that companies must ensure that their customers are satisfied with their purchases that are really essential from the ecommerce’s point of view. With is in mind, this study aimed at investigating customer satisfaction towards e-shopping in Malaysia. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed among students randomly selected from various public and private universities located within Klang valley area. Total 369 questionnaires were returned, out of which 341 questionnaires were found usable for further analysis. Finally, SEM was employed to test the hypotheses. This study found that customer satisfaction towards e-shopping in Malaysia is to a great extent influenced by ease of use, trust, design of the website, online security and e-service quality. Finally, recommendations and future study direction is provided. Keywords: E-shopping, Customer satisfaction, Trust, Online security, E-service quality, Malaysia

Étude des effets de l’activité physique en oncologie pédiatrique : des paramètres physiologiques aux paramètres psychologiques

Thèse présentée à l’Université de Montréal, Faculté de médecine, École de kinésiologie et des sciences de l’activité physique et à l’Université Paris Nanterre, Département de Psychologie dans le cadre de la cotutelle internationale de thèse entre les deux établissementsLa promotion de l’activité physique en oncologie pédiatrique est un aspect essentiel des soins pour le patient. En effet, l'activité physique améliore significativement la capacité fonctionnelle, le système musculosquelettique, le système immunitaire, le système cardiovasculaire, ainsi que la santé psychologique des patients atteints. La place de l’activité physique en oncologie pédiatrique est au coeur de cette thèse qui s’est inscrite dans une démarche de cotutelle internationale de thèse répondant à plusieurs questions que se posent les patients atteints de cancer pédiatrique et les survivants de cancer pédiatrique, notamment ceux de la leucémie lymphoblastique aiguë (LLA). Entre autres, « comment le cancer et ses traitements affectent ma santé à court, moyen et long terme ? » Et « comment l’activité physique peut-elle me venir en aide ? » L’objectif principal est de mieux comprendre le déconditionnement physique et les mécanismes potentiels qui en découle chez les survivants de la LLA, tandis que le second objectif est d’explorer l’impact du diagnostic du cancer et d’un programme d’activité physique sur le comportement en activité physique d’enfants atteints de cancer. Pour répondre à ces questions, cette thèse s’intéresse aux paramètres tant physiologiques que psychologiques. Ainsi, les travaux réalisés au sein de cette thèse sont au nombre de cinq. Ils viennent préciser les effets des traitements contre le cancer sur la santé physique et psychologique des patients atteints ou ayant été atteints de cancer pédiatrique. La première étude de cette thèse vise à explorer les différences physiologiques entre les survivants de la LLA et la population canadienne en santé. Pour ces deux populations, les données en activité physique, ainsi que les données de condition cardiorespiratoire ont été comparées afin de fournir une meilleure compréhension des défis auxquels font face les survivants de la LLA au quotidien. La seconde étude vient apporter des réponses au déconditionnement physique des survivants de la LLA. Elle constitue la première étude au monde d’association génétique entre la condition cardiorespiratoire des survivants de la LLA et les gènes de l’aptitude à l’entraînement physique (trainability genes). Son impact auprès des cliniciens, des survivants, des patients et de leur famille est significatif puisqu’elle pourrait permettre, dans un futur proche, d’offrir un meilleur suivi aux patients atteints de la LLA en adéquation avec leur profil génétique et leur condition cardiorespiratoire. La troisième étude de cette thèse explore les effets néfastes à long terme des traitements contre le cancer sur les paramètres électrophysiologiques. Cette étude vise à mieux comprendre le déconditionnement physique des survivants de la LLA, notamment en ce qui a trait à leur système nerveux autonome qui subit d’importants changements. Ces paramètres, étroitement liés au système nerveux sympathique et parasympathique, sont d’une importance capitale dans la pratique sécuritaire d’une activité physique. Finalement, les deux dernières études sont étroitement liées et font suite au constat alarmant observé chez les survivants de la LLA. En ce sens, ces études découlent aussi de l’intérêt de proposer un programme d’activité physique en oncologie pédiatrique. Ces travaux viennent s’intéresser aux mesures de la théorie du comportement planifié, de l’estime de soi et de la condition physique perçue d’enfants atteints de cancer qui sont en cours de traitements. Le quatrième article de cette thèse documente les effets du diagnostic de cancer sur les paramètres psychologiques cités précédemment et montre l’importance de fournir aux enfants atteints de cancer un support en activité physique dès leur diagnostic. Le cinquième article peut être considéré comme une suite au quatrième article puisqu’il vient proposer un programme d’activité physique supervisé. Cette dernière étude montre les effets positifs de six semaines d’activité physique sur les paramètres physiologiques et psychologiques. Elle montre l’importance du support familial pour améliorer le comportement lié à l’activité physique des enfants et alerte les cliniciens sur le besoin réel et pressant de fournir aux enfants atteints de cancer un support en activité physique dès leur diagnostic.Physical activity promotion in pediatric oncology is an essential aspect of patient care. Indeed, physical activity significantly improves the functional capacity, musculoskeletal system, inflammatory system, immune system, cardiovascular system, as well as the psychological health of patients. Physical activity in pediatric oncology is central to this thesis, which was part of an international joint supervision approach, answering several questions posed by children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors, in particular those with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Among other things, "How does cancer and its treatments affect my health in the short, medium and long term?" And "How can physical activity help me?". The first aim is to better understand the physical deconditioning of childhood ALL survivors and the potential mechanisms that result from it. The second aim is to explore the impact of cancer diagnosis, as well as a supervised physical activity program on children's physical activity behavior during treatments. To answer these questions, this thesis focuses on physiological, epidemiological, genetic, electrophysiological and psychological parameters. There are five works carried out within this thesis. They specify the effects of cancer treatments on the physical and psychological health of children with cancer and childhood ALL survivors. The first study in this thesis aims to explore the physiological differences between childhood cancer survivors (i.e., ALL survivors) and the healthy Canadian population. For these two populations, physical activity data, as well as cardiorespiratory fitness data, were compared in order to provide a better understanding of the daily challenges faced by childhood ALL survivors. The second study in this thesis provides answers to childhood ALL survivors’ physical deconditioning. This study is the first in the exercise and oncology field to explore the genetic association between childhood ALL survivors’ cardiorespiratory fitness and their trainability genes. These findings have an important impact on clinicians, patients, survivors and their families since they could allow, in the near future, to offer better follow-up to ALL patients, in line with their genetic profile and their cardiorespiratory fitness. The third study in this thesis explores the harmful long-term effects of cancer treatments on the electrophysiological parameters of ALL survivors. This study aims to better understand the physical deconditioning of these survivors, especially in regard to their autonomic nervous system which undergoes significant changes. These parameters, closely linked to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, are of paramount importance in the safe practice of physical activity. Finally, the last two studies are closely linked and follow up on the alarming observation made in ALL survivors. In this sense, these studies also stem from the interest of proposing a physical activity program in pediatric oncology. This work focuses on measures of the theory of planned behavior, self-esteem and perceived physical condition of children with cancer who are undergoing treatment. The fourth article of this thesis documents the effects of cancer diagnosis on the psychological parameters mentioned above and shows the importance of providing children with cancer with physical activity support as soon as they are diagnosed. The fifth article can be considered as a follow-up to the fourth article since it proposes a supervised physical activity program in pediatric oncology. This latest study shows the positive effects of six weeks of physical activity on the physiological and psychological parameters. It shows the importance of family support to improve behavior linked to physical activity in children and alerts clinicians to the real and pressing need to provide children with cancer with support in physical activity as soon as they are diagnosed

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen

A MapReduce-based Adjoint method for preventing brain disease

Abstract In this paper, we present a statistical model performed on the basis of a patient dataset. This model predicts efficiently the brain disease risk. Multiple regression was used to build the statistical model. The least squares estimation problem usually used to estimate the parameters of regression model is solved via parallelized algebraic Adjoint method. As the parallelized algebraic Adjoint method is not the only Mapreduce-based method used to solve the least square problem, experimentations were carried out to classify the Adjoint method amongst the other methods. The calculated job completion time shows the competitive trait of the Mapreduce-based Adjoint method