scholarly journals Using a Web-Based App to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance Rates (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Rome ◽  
Haipeng Zhang ◽  
Adam Landman
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Qr Code ◽  
Qr Codes ◽  
Improve Hand Hygiene ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Hand Sanitizer

BACKGROUND Our institution has prioritized improving hand hygiene rates. Empty or broken alcohol-based hand sanitizer dispensers are a barrier to efficient hand hygiene practices. One barrier is the lack of modalities for employees to alert when a dispenser is empty or broken. OBJECTIVE We hypothesize that adding predefined QR code functionality to an existing web-based service repair application for staff will facilitate increased alerts about empty hand sanitizer dispensers. METHODS The FixIt app is a Web-based application that enables staff at our academic hospital to report issues to environmental services including when supplies are broken, if rooms are dirty, or if an item in a room needs to be restocked. However, users must type a free text description of the problem to report it. We propose adding functionality to allow users to scan a QR code with their SmartPhone or enter a unique text code that will be labeled on each hand sanitizer dispenser. This unique code will be directly associated to a specific dispenser and alert the environmental services department to the exact dispenser to fix or replace, thereby reducing the number of empty or broken dispensers. To measure the scope of the problem, we evaluated the functionality of all hand sanitizer dispensers in public spaces on patient wards and hallways in our institution at a single point in time and then sequentially over a course of 48 hours. We also evaluated the usage of the existing FixIt application and categorized the types of requests that FixIt has processed to date. RESULTS Out of 535 hand sanitizer dispensers, forty-nine dispensers (9.2%) were not functional on our baseline evaluation. After 12 hours, 23 of these non-functional dispensers (46.9%) had not yet been fixed or refilled. After 48 hours, 17 dispensers (34.7%) were still not functioning. The existing FixIt application without QR codes was deployed in September 2017. Since then, the application has generated over 400 FixIt requests via manual text-entry form. Of those requests, 17% were categorized as “repair/restock” requests. CONCLUSIONS We propose adding a QR-based feature to an existing Web-based application to streamline and facilitate repetitive tasks such as reporting empty or broken hand sanitizer dispensers. Our preliminary results suggest that users are already willing to utilize a manual form via a Web application to request restocking or repair of items within the hospital. We think that lowering the barrier for reporting by utilizing QR codes may improve usage rates of this feature. Our next steps are to implement a small pilot of the FixIt QR code evaluate uptake and utilization.

scholarly journals Using the QR code as a means of automating the process of accounting for attendance at educational classes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2131 (2) ◽  
pp. 022077
Author(s):  
M V Stupina ◽  
K V Anistratenko ◽  
L O Pazina
Keyword(s):  
Data Model ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Qr Code ◽  
Electronic Journal ◽  
Qr Codes ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Conceptual Data

Abstract Nowadays, the technology of QR codes is one of the promising areas of development of the IT industry, which has found application in various industries, business areas, medicine, etc. In the field of education, QR codes are used to increase the interactivity of classes, provide additional multimedia content, conduct surveys and other control activities. This work presents the key features of QR codes, their architecture and main components. The use of QR codes in automating the process of accounting for students’ attendance is considered. A web application has been developed for teachers, the interface of which allows them to generate QR codes for academic disciplines. A mobile application with an integrated QR-code scanner was developed for students. All attendance data is recorded in the teacher’s electronic attendance register. A conceptual data model of the system is presented, as well as the main algorithms of its operation related to the generation and scanning of QR codes. The practice of using the developed system demonstrates the effectiveness of monitoring attendance data by promptly entering it into an electronic journal.

scholarly journals Using a Web-Based App to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance Rates

Iproceedings ◽  
10.2196/11812 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. e11812
Author(s):  
Benjamin Rome ◽  
Haipeng Zhang ◽  
Adam Landman
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Hand Hygiene Compliance ◽  
Improve Hand Hygiene ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Hygiene Compliance

scholarly journals Barriers and Opportunities for Sustainable Hand Hygiene Interventions in Rural Liberian Hospitals

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8588
Author(s):  
Lucy K. Tantum ◽  
John R. Gilstad ◽  
Fatorma K. Bolay ◽  
Lily M. Horng ◽  
Alpha D. Simpson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Improve Hand Hygiene ◽  
Hand Hygiene Improvement ◽  
Running Water ◽  
Hand Sanitizer ◽  
Hospital Infection Control

Hand hygiene is central to hospital infection control. During the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic in Liberia, gaps in hand hygiene infrastructure and health worker training contributed to hospital-based Ebola transmission. Hand hygiene interventions were undertaken post-Ebola, but many improvements were not sustainable. This study characterizes barriers to, and facilitators of, hand hygiene in rural Liberian hospitals and evaluates readiness for sustainable, locally derived interventions to improve hand hygiene. Research enumerators collected data at all hospitals in Bong and Lofa counties, Liberia, in the period March–May 2020. Enumerators performed standardized spot checks of hand hygiene infrastructure and supplies, structured observations of hand hygiene behavior, and semi-structured key informant interviews for thematic analysis. During spot checks, hospital staff reported that handwashing container water was always available in 89% (n = 42) of hospital wards, piped running water in 23% (n = 11), and soap in 62% (n = 29). Enumerators observed 5% of wall-mounted hand sanitizer dispensers (n = 8) and 95% of pocket-size dispensers (n = 53) to be working. In interviews, hospital staff described willingness to purchase personal hand sanitizer dispensers when hospital-provided supplies were unavailable. Low-cost, sustainable interventions should address supply and infrastructure-related obstacles to hospital hand hygiene improvement.

scholarly journals QR based management system for plants shopping center

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 931
Author(s):  
Saja Nasir ◽  
Salih Al-Qaraawi ◽  
Muayad Sadik Croock
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Shopping Center ◽  
Qr Code ◽  
Full Information ◽  
Quick Response ◽  
Qr Codes ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Server Side

<span>It is well known that the development in the life style requires a robust enhancement in the provided services based on technologies. This paper suggests a mobile application under android environment that manages the information and sale systems regarding plants shop. The proposed application uses the Quick Response (QR) codes as identification of an object (plant). The proposed system includes two parts: server and client. The server side contains the most software application, such as database, while the client (mobile) side runs the website based interface between the application and users. QR tag is attached to each plant on the farm to be read by visitor’s mobile camera and sent to the server side using the designed web application. The received QR code is processed by the server and preparing the response with full information of a plant to be sent back to the mobile for user viewing. In addition, the proposed system offers a sale service to the user after performing registration. The proposed system is tested over different case studies and the obtained results show the efficiency of its performance.</span>

ANALYZING AND IMPROVING WEB APPLICATION QUALITY USING DESIGN PATTERNS

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Shikha Bhatia ◽  
Mr. Harshpreet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Design Pattern ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Interactive Software ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Execution Speed

With the mounting demand of web applications, a number of issues allied to its quality have came in existence. In the meadow of web applications, it is very thorny to develop high quality web applications. A design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a generally stirring problem in software design. It should be noted that design pattern is not a finished product that can be directly transformed into source code. Rather design pattern is a depiction or template that describes how to find solution of a problem that can be used in many different situations. Past research has shown that design patterns greatly improved the execution speed of a software application. Design pattern are classified as creational design patterns, structural design pattern, behavioral design pattern, etc. MVC design pattern is very productive for architecting interactive software systems and web applications. This design pattern is partition-independent, because it is expressed in terms of an interactive application running in a single address space. We will design and analyze an algorithm by using MVC approach to improve the performance of web based application. The objective of our study will be to reduce one of the major object oriented features i.e. coupling between model and view segments of web based application. The implementation for the same will be done in by using .NET framework.

eMap: A Web Application for Identifying and Visualizing Electron or Hole Hopping Pathways in Proteins

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslan N. Tazhigulov ◽  
James R. Gayvert ◽  
Melissa Wei ◽  
Ksenia B. Bravaya
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Shortest Paths ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Decay Parameter ◽  
Electron Hole ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Aromatic Amino Acid Residue ◽  
Pathways Model ◽  
Visualization Tools ◽  
Effective Decay

<p>eMap is a web-based platform for identifying and visualizing electron or hole transfer pathways in proteins based on their crystal structures. The underlying model can be viewed as a coarse-grained version of the Pathways model, where each tunneling step between hopping sites represented by electron transfer active (ETA) moieties is described with one effective decay parameter that describes protein-mediated tunneling. ETA moieties include aromatic amino acid residue side chains and aromatic fragments of cofactors that are automatically detected, and, in addition, electron/hole residing sites that can be specified by the users. The software searches for the shortest paths connecting the user-specified electron/hole source to either all surface-exposed ETA residues or to the user-specified target. The identified pathways are ranked based on their length. The pathways are visualized in 2D as a graph, in which each node represents an ETA site, and in 3D using available protein visualization tools. Here, we present the capability and user interface of eMap 1.0, which is available at https://emap.bu.edu.</p>

scholarly journals QR Code-based Learning Development: Accessing Math Game for Children Learning Enhancement

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Widyasari Widyasari ◽  
Hadi Sutopo ◽  
Murniati Agustian
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Field Test ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Qr Code ◽  
Qr Codes ◽  
School Students ◽  
Learning Enhancement ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Math Game

Mathematics in elementary school is difficult to understand, boring, formal, theoretical, and book-based learning, which makes students tired of listening and paying attention. The purpose of this study is to create a learning prototype based on QR codes, especially mathematics learning in elementary schools. Using the QR code, students can access math games related to the course. This learning model could encourage students to learn mathematics. The research included seven steps in research and development named after Borg &amp; Gall, such as need assessment, plan, early product development, first test, revise early product, field test and revise product. The object of the research is QR code-based learning, and the respondents are elementary school students and teachers. After analyzing data in the first and field test, researchers found the result. QR code-based learning could support children for learning mathematics.

scholarly journals ART-UP: A Novel Method for Generating Scanning-Robust Aesthetic QR Codes

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Mingliang Xu ◽  
Qingfeng Li ◽  
Jianwei Niu ◽  
Hao Su ◽  
Xiting Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Qr Code ◽  
Quick Response ◽  
Estimation Model ◽  
Qr Codes ◽  
Excellent Performance ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Coarse To Fine

Quick response (QR) codes are usually scanned in different environments, so they must be robust to variations in illumination, scale, coverage, and camera angles. Aesthetic QR codes improve the visual quality, but subtle changes in their appearance may cause scanning failure. In this article, a new method to generate scanning-robust aesthetic QR codes is proposed, which is based on a module-based scanning probability estimation model that can effectively balance the tradeoff between visual quality and scanning robustness. Our method locally adjusts the luminance of each module by estimating the probability of successful sampling. The approach adopts the hierarchical, coarse-to-fine strategy to enhance the visual quality of aesthetic QR codes, which sequentially generate the following three codes: a binary aesthetic QR code, a grayscale aesthetic QR code, and the final color aesthetic QR code. Our approach also can be used to create QR codes with different visual styles by adjusting some initialization parameters. User surveys and decoding experiments were adopted for evaluating our method compared with state-of-the-art algorithms, which indicates that the proposed approach has excellent performance in terms of both visual quality and scanning robustness.

scholarly journals An Interactive Web Application for the Statistical Analysis of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data in Epidemiological Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 193229682098557
Author(s):  
Alysha M. De Livera ◽  
Jonathan E. Shaw ◽  
Neale Cohen ◽  
Anne Reutens ◽  
Agus Salim
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Glucose Monitoring ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Diabetes Management ◽  
Glucose Monitoring ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Interactive Software ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Visualization Of Data ◽  
User Friendly

Motivation: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems are an essential part of novel technology in diabetes management and care. CGM studies have become increasingly popular among researchers, healthcare professionals, and people with diabetes due to the large amount of useful information that can be collected using CGM systems. The analysis of the data from these studies for research purposes, however, remains a challenge due to the characteristics and large volume of the data. Results: Currently, there are no publicly available interactive software applications that can perform statistical analyses and visualization of data from CGM studies. With the rapidly increasing popularity of CGM studies, such an application is becoming necessary for anyone who works with these large CGM datasets, in particular for those with little background in programming or statistics. CGMStatsAnalyser is a publicly available, user-friendly, web-based application, which can be used to interactively visualize, summarize, and statistically analyze voluminous and complex CGM datasets together with the subject characteristics with ease.

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