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January 1, 2023
Childhood infections are one of the most common reasons children seek medical care, and antibiotics are the most frequently prescribed medication to children (Chai et al., 2012). Pediatric and family medicine primary care providers must be familiar with an ...
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January 1, 2020
Antimicrobial stewardship refers to the appropriate selection, dosing, route, and duration of antimicrobial therapy to optimize patient outcomes and minimize toxicity and the development of resistant pathogens. The optimal stewardship strategies in the ped ...
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January 17, 2018
One of the main methodological difficulties in carrying out research in the field of occupational stress is the use of pre-designed health and behavioural questionnaires. This has the serious disadvantage of either not including important stressors at work ...
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January 1, 2018
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January 1, 2018
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January 1, 2016
Ergonomics is the science that matches the capabilities of people and the work they perform. The primary interest is an understanding of how the design of work affects people’s safety, health, performance, and productivity. The purpose is to match the capa ...
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January 1, 2014
In theory at least, the sine qua non of adult learning in industry is the contribution it can make towards increasing the efficiency of the workforce. In practice, the situation is not so clear. One of the complicating factors is that training is only one ...
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November 1, 2013
Vaccines are one of the most successful public health interventions of all time. Sixteen diseases that afflicted generations of American children are now vaccine preventable. However, as the number of vaccines in the routine childhood immunization schedule ...
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January 1, 2012
In this chapter, the authors propose some ideas and considerations for dealing with ergonomic concerns for portable mobile technologies in addition to updating information on fixed computer workstation applications. The relative importance of the screen, i ...
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January 1, 2011
The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of how the physical demands of interacting with Web devices must be considered by designers and users to reduce biomechanical and physiological strain on users. Problem areas will be identi£ed using a w ...
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March 2, 2009
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