37 research outputs found
Designing and implementing a COPD discharge care bundle
National surveys have revealed significant differences in patient outcomes following admission to hospital with acute exacerbation of COPD which are likely to be due to variations in care. We developed a care bundle, comprising a short list of evidence-based practices to be implemented prior to discharge for all patients admitted with this condition, based on a review of national guidelines and other relevant literature, expert opinion and patient consultation. Implementation was then piloted using action research methodologies with patient input. Actively involving staff was vital to ensure that the changes introduced were understood and the process followed. Implementation of a care bundle has the potential to produce a dramatic improvement in compliance with optimum health care practice
Assessing the Safety of Stem Cell Therapeutics
Unprecedented developments in stem cell research herald a new era of hope and expectation for novel therapies. However, they also present a major challenge for regulators since safety assessment criteria, designed for conventional agents, are largely inappropriate for cell-based therapies. This article aims to set out the safety issues pertaining to novel stem cell-derived treatments, to identify knowledge gaps that require further research, and to suggest a roadmap for developing safety assessment criteria. It is essential that regulators, pharmaceutical providers, and safety scientists work together to frame new safety guidelines, based on âacceptable risk,â so that patients are adequately protected but the safety âbarâ is not set so high that exciting new treatments are lost
Lilliput
Catalog for the exhibition Lilliput held at the Seton Hall University Walsh Gallery, June 8 - July 24, 2009. Curated by Jeanne Brasile and Asha Ganpat. Includes an essay by Jeanne Brasile and Asha Ganpat. Includes color illustrations
2016 Research & Innovation Day Program
A one day showcase of applied research, social innovation, scholarship projects and activities.https://first.fanshawec.ca/cri_cripublications/1003/thumbnail.jp
Contrasting perspectives of strategy making: applications in 'Hyper' environments
We revisit the original meaning of turbulence in the socioecological tradition of organization studies and outline a perspective on strategy making grounded in that tradition. This entails a contrast of the socioecological perspective with the more well-known neoclassical perspective on strategy, based on their core decision premises and their different understandings of environmental turbulence. We argue that while some mainstream strategy approaches have taken important strides toward addressing advanced turbulence, many others remain tethered to the neoclassical origins of the strategy discipline and are insufficiently responsive to the new landscape of strategy that now characterizes many industries. This new landscape is construed as the âhyper environmentâ, in which positive feedback processes and emergent field effects produce high volatility. We use two case illustrations from the US healthcare sector to examine how neoclassical and socioecological perspectives contribute to strategizing in hyper environments. Implications for strategic management theory and practice flow from this analysis
Ultrafast laser stress figuring for accurate deformation of thin mirrors
Fabricating freeform mirrors relies on accurate optical figuring processes
capable of arbitrarily modifying low-spatial frequency height without creating
higher-spatial frequency errors. We present a scalable process to accurately
figure thin mirrors using stress generated by a focused ultrafast laser. We
applied ultrafast laser stress figuring (ULSF) to four thin fused silica
mirrors to correct them to 10-20 nm RMS over 28 Zernike terms, in 2-3
iterations, without significantly affecting higher-frequency errors. We
measured the mirrors over a month and found that dielectric-coated mirrors were
stable but stability of aluminum-coated mirrors was inconclusive. The accuracy
and throughput for ULSF is on par with existing deterministic figuring
processes, yet ULSF doesn't significantly affect mid-spatial frequency errors,
can be applied after mirror coating, and can scale to higher throughput using
mature laser processing technologies. ULSF offers new potential to rapidly and
accurately shape freeform mirrors