Objectives Self-management is a concept frequently used within healthcare but lacks consensus.It is the aim of this study to clarify the concept.Design Concept analysis according to Walker and Avant, comprises eight steps: select concept, determine purpose, identify uses, determine defining attributes, identify model case, identify additional cases

Abstract Recently, many countries including Korea are experiencing serious climatic events, such as heat waves, torrential rain, cold waves, heavy snowfall, and typhoons.In addition, due to the extreme climate events, the construction period of concrete structures tends to be extended, whereby increasing related economic losses.Pushing through cons

Abstract Background A number of working time arrangements have been linked to negative consequences for both health personnel and their patients.A common hypothesis put forth to explain these findings suggests that certain working time arrangements lead to negative patient consequences due to the adverse impact they have on employee health.The purp

Well-designed artificial scaffolds are urgently needed due to the limited self-repair capacity of bone, which hampers effective regeneration in critical defects.Optimal scaffolds must provide physical guidance to recruit cells and immune regulation to improve the regenerative microenvironment.This study presents a novel peoria orange barrels scaffo