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Open AccessImproving hand hygiene of young children with a digital intervention: a cluster-randomised controlled field trial
Contagious diseases that affect young children place a great burden on them and their families. Proper hand hygiene is an important measure to reduce the disease burden, however, its implementation in day care...
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Open AccessAccessible mental well-being intervention for adolescents in school settings: a single-group intervention study using a pretest–post-test design
A growing number of adolescents seek treatment for mental health problems, a circumstance that stresses the importance of implementing accessible treatment options. This study evaluates the impacts of brief, m...
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Using Design Thinking in Nursing Management and Leadership
This chapter focuses on the use of design thinking in the day-to-day management and leadership in nursing. Nurse managers and leaders work under constant pressure in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguo...
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Open AccessUsing machine learning to predict subsequent events after EMS non-conveyance decisions
Predictors of subsequent events after Emergency Medical Services (EMS) non-conveyance decisions are still unclear, though patient safety is the priority in prehospital emergency care. The aim of this study was...
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Open AccessAssisting nurses in care documentation: from automated sentence classification to coherent document structures with subject headings
Up to 35% of nurses’ working time is spent on care documentation. We describe the evaluation of a system aimed at assisting nurses in documenting patient care and potentially reducing the documentation workloa...
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Open AccessThe effect of a new perioperative practice model on length of hospital stay and on the surgical care process in patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty under spinal anesthesia: a randomized clinical trial
The shortened length of hospital stays (LOS) requires efficient and patient-participatory perioperative nursing approaches to enable early and safe discharge from hospitals for patients undergoing total hip ar...
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Open AccessChanging role of EMS –analyses of non-conveyed and conveyed patients in Finland
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Emergency Departments (ED) have seen increasing attendance rates in the last decades. Currently, EMS are increasingly assessing and treating patients without the need to co...
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Using Internet of Things in Healthcare
The demographic changes in the society have led to an urge for new sustainable ways to provide high-quality care for a large group of people with complex health needs. In the Internet of Thing (IoT) technology...
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The Use of Gaming in Healthcare
Because of their attractive and engaging nature, games offer a potential method to be used for different purposes in healthcare. Health games are accessible and enable reaching the patients and clients without...
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Open AccessThe effect of an active video game intervention on physical activity, motor performance, and fatigue in children with cancer: a randomized controlled trial
To evaluate the effect of active video games in promoting physical activity and motor performance, and reducing fatigue in children with cancer. A randomized controlled trial was conducted. The intervention in...
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Open AccessAcute pain intensity monitoring with the classification of multiple physiological parameters
Current acute pain intensity assessment tools are mainly based on self-reporting by patients, which is impractical for non-communicative, sedated or critically ill patients. In previous studies, various physio...
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Open AccessAdaptation of pain scales for parent observation: are pain scales and symptoms useful in detecting pain of young children with the suspicion of acute otitis media?
The assessment of ear pain is challenging in young, mostly preverbal children. Our aim was to investigate whether pain scales are useful tools for parents to detect pain in their young children with the suspic...
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Open AccessPhysical activity among children: objective measurements using Fitbit One® and ActiGraph
Self-quantification of health parameters is becoming more popular; thus, the validity of the devices requires assessments. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of Fitbit One step counts (Fitbit I...
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Open AccessValidation of Finnish Neecham Confusion Scale and Nursing Delirium Screening Scale using Confusion Assessment Method algorithm as a comparison scale
Delirium is a common clinical problem with acute and fluctuating onset. Early notification of its symptoms can lead to earlier detection and management of this state. Valid and reliable instruments are require...
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Open AccessNormalizing acronyms and abbreviations to aid patient understanding of clinical texts: ShARe/CLEF eHealth Challenge 2013, Task 2
The ShARe/CLEF eHealth challenge lab aims to stimulate development of natural language processing and information retrieval technologies to aid patients in understanding their clinical reports. In clinical tex...
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Factors Affecting the Availability of Electronic Patient Records for Secondary Purposes – A Case Study
The purpose of this paper is to explore secondary use of Finnish electronic patient record (EPR) data in the context of clinical research and product development. Further, EPR availability enhancing procedures...
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Information Management in the Daily Care Coordination in the Intensive Care Unit
This study aimed to explore intensive care shift leaders’ daily care coordination related information needs and sources of important information. Information needs were explored with a survey and sources of im...
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Open AccessCare episode retrieval: distributional semantic models for information retrieval in the clinical domain
Patients' health related information is stored in electronic health records (EHRs) by health service providers. These records include sequential documentation of care episodes in the form of clinical notes. EHRs ...
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Open AccessActive video games to promote physical activity in children with cancer: a randomized clinical trial with follow-up
Low levels of physical activity, musculoskeletal morbidity and weight gain are commonly reported problems in children with cancer. Intensive medical treatment and a decline in physical activity may also result...
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A Proxy-Based Security Solution for Web-Based Online eHealth Services
This paper presents an idea of using a proxy-based security solution to protect web-based eHealth applications from client-side attacks. In today’s Internet, eHealth services face many challenges related to in...
