Objective: To analyze whether an increase in patient severity and nursing workload are correlated to a greater incidence of adverse events (AEs) in critical patients. Method: A prospective single cohort study was performed ...

Knowledge of the mental workload induced by a Web page is essential for improving users' browsing experience. However, continuously assessing the mental workload during a browsing task is challenging. To address this issue, ...

As health IT has become overloaded with patient information, provider burnout and stress has accelerated. Studies have shown that EHR usage leads to heightened cognitive workload for nurses, and increases in cognitive ...

Aims and objective. To verify association between PU development with nursing workload and illness severity and to verify whether nursing workload and illness severity are related with Braden Scale scores. Background. ...

Assigning tasks to employees is a difficult task. Errors committed in such assignments can have far-reaching consequences, such as reduced efficiency due to absenteeism, lack of job satisfaction, formal grievances, and ...

This article discusses a workload allocation model in which tasks are matched to employees on the basis of a multi-dimensional skill measure. The main idea is to match positions and tasks to available and potential positions ...

Process scheduling is one of the most important issues in distributed computing. However, this problem still requires further formalisation to understand the consequences of scheduler decisions. To overcome this drawback, ...