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Demander aux personnes atteintes de maladies chroniques d’évaluer l’impact de leurs soins sur leur santé et leur expérience de soins primaires est l’étape la plus importante pour en rehausser la qualité. Le système de santé québécois collecte massivement des données médico-administratives qui peuvent fournir de l’information pertinente à l’orientation des politiques et à la mise en place de soins primaires pour répondre à leurs besoins. Cependant, peu d’information est disponible en ce qui a...
Background An estimated 11 million burn injuries with medical attention occur every year worldwide. Although potentially deadly, burn injuries are now considered a chronic disease with multiple lifetime physical and psychological sequelae. However, it remains unclear how these events affect patients’ utility scores. We aimed to conduct a systematic review to summarize the utility scores of burn injury survivors. Methods We conducted on March 18th, 2020 a systematic review of the publishe...
Under current economic conditions, several companies have decided to implement collaborations with their suppliers, distributors, and retailers, in order to share products and information efficiently as well as reduce their operational costs. Even traditional industries such as the forest industry are now seeking for new business relationships to outperform the competition. In this article, we propose a case study of collaboration between a pulp and paper producer and a wholesaler. In p...
Energy consumption and thermal comfort in residential buildings are highly influenced by occupant behavior, which exhibits a high level of day-to-day and dwelling-to-dwelling variance. Although occupant behavior stochastic models have been developed in the past, the analysis or selection of a building design parameter is typically based on simulations that use a single “average” occupant behavior schedule which does not account for all possible profiles. The objective of this study is to enha...