Development and testing of a work measurement tool to assess caregivers' activities in residential aged care facilities

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 1226-1230

  Munyisia, Esther ^a   Yu, Ping ^a   Hailey, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caregiver; Computerized information system; Residential aged care; Work activity; Work measurement; Work sampling

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HOUSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SAMPLING;

AGED CARE; CAREGIVER; COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WORK ACTIVITIES; WORK MEASUREMENT; WORK SAMPLING;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 78649509023     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-1226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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