The Covid-19 pandemic and related massive spread of home based work led to substantial changes in the conditions for combining work and childbearing. On the one hand, working from home helped parents to accommodate increased childcare needs during the pandemic. On the other hand, it led to acu...
Human resource management (HRM) of healthcare organisations plays an important role in improving the continuity of care, managing staff, and ensuring patient safety. During COVID-19, there were several HR-related issues, creating a significant challengin
Most seniors want to stay at home for as long as possible, and their families want to support them to do so, but the cost and limited availability of home care forces many to “give up” and place their loved ones in long-term care, said Sue VanderBent, CEO of Home Care Ontario. ...
including information about workload, the availability of support and information, the quality of interprofessional collaboration, fear of contracting COVID-19, and anxiety and depression. The survey was conducted during
Context: Providing palliative care (PC) at home for patients with advanced cancer has become essential during the COVID-19 emergency. Nevertheless, the home PC professionals (PCPs) faced a challenging situation because of increased number of discharged patients, reduced availability of health-care ...
The present survey results agree with recent studies showing that lockdowns during a pandemic can adversely influence lifestyle activities worldwide, as well as participation in sports and physical activity27,28. Precautions during COVID-19 have decreased physical activity overall and availability of ...
This cross-sectional study examines the magnitude of unreported COVID-19 cases and deaths in the National Healthcare Safety Network and provides estimates
and disruption in the availability of food and other essentials. Health-care systems globally could be operating at more than maximum capacity for many months. But health-care workers, unlike ventilators or wards, cannot be urgently manufactured or run at 100% occupancy for long periods. It is ...
Self-reported changes (percentage of respondents) in workload, work tasks, expectations on availability during leisure, wellbeing, work performance, boundaries between work and private life, support from managers, and influence at work during the COVID-19 pandemic. N = 27 Full size image Tim...
Limitations and Strengths Limited availability of technology prevented some participants from being randomized in the study. However, the mail-only cohort, who received copies of the printed chart, had similar performance on the at-home test compared with in-office acuity with a mean difference of...