Air Quality Index

This cross-sectional study was performed to compare quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus and diabetic foot ulcers. Health related quality of life is used to measure how chronic illnesses interfere with a person’s life because their quality of life is how they perceive it. Medication control and usage, dietary restrictions, and symptoms of diabetes all affect the patient’s quality of life. This study was performed between May and June 2011 in a hospital in Southeastern Anatolia…

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines quality of life as a multidimensional construct that encompasses physical well-being, mental well-being, and social well-being. Quality of life does not only reflect upon a person's health, but also how well they can contribute to society. Being able to have a career, volunteer to help others in the community, and being able to enjoy time with one's friends and family are fundamental to the human experience. Physical Therapist's have a…

basic understanding of the potential risks of indoor air quality and its impact on asthma, a closer inspection of the individual sources that diminish this air quality is necessary to adequately understand the extent of the problem. First, one source of poor indoor air quality is pests. Dust mites and fragments of cockroaches are part of common household dust. Dust is easily disturbed by even the smallest movement, causing it to float in the air until it is inhaled or lands on another surface.…

Good quality of life (QoL) is something that everyone, including those with an Intellectual Disability (ID), deserves to be able measure and recognize. Many things have been accomplished along the journey that the concept of quality of life has taken. Many challenges have been overcome and the entire process has been quite productive; however, there are still challenges that need to be overcome. The primary focus of this article is on the summary of the current understanding of the construct…

Quality is the customer’s understanding of how goods and services fit for their reason and how it fulfills stated and unexpressed description. Excellence is a talent or skill that surpasses ordinary standards. Quality and excellence goes hand in hand, as one cannot function without the other. Quality and excellence are defined as delivering a high standard of care to patients, providing for their needs using a clinical approach, which abides by safety standards and is supported by scientific…

• The common data quality problem in healthcare performance measurement is: First, the lack of knowledge about the purpose of healthcare performance measurement. The purpose is to: - Assessment of current performance: need to find out the strength and weakness of current process - Demonstration and verification of performance improvement: evaluate and compare whether the improvement had made any difference. - Control of performance (Joshi, Ransom, Nash, & Ransom, 2014, p.135) Second, the…

Status - uncontrolled Drug therapy problem - indication: needs additional drug therapy - CD has difficult urination and increased urination frequency, he needs medications to treat BPH symptoms. Rationale: The short-term goal is to eliminate his difficulty urination and increased urination frequency symptoms in 2 to 4 weeks, the long-term goal is to eliminate his difficulty urination and increased urination frequency symptoms indefinitely. CD is experiencing difficult urination and…

How is your quality of life? This is a question that many clinicians strive to answer with all patients across the continuum from acute to chronically ill. Clinicians have an insatiable drive for the answers about the clinical judgments they make each day. Moreover, clinicians hold very deep convictions based on the training and experience that can only be improved using convincing data or information. Clinical outcome is a health state of particular patients. Furthermore, clinical outcome is…

Introduction Since the management team decided to assess the effective factors on the quality of the welding in the manufacturing process by utilizing simulation, we have to briefly describe the used simulation process called Design of Experiment (DOE) and understand the characteristic of such analytical process. Basically, the process of accumulating the data based on the observations is time-consuming and costly and miscalculation in the return of investment on the improvisation can be…

My project closely resembles quality improvement as I am attempting to improve the surgical patient’s oxygenation status by performing deep breathing exercises while simultaneously weaning them off supplemental oxygen. Quality improvement “is aimed at improvement – measuring where you are, and figuring out ways to make things better” (“Contrasting QI and QA,” n.d.). Some principles of quality management and quality improvement is that it must operative in an organized structure, requires…