Therefore, the evaluation criterion is: workload decrease of selected loop, minus workload increase of the second loop.
As Aasman and Li pointed out that HRV indices were regarded as the representative of operator effort or mental workload [ 50– 52], the increase of HRV indices in this study represented the decrease of the operator workload.
Decreasing this type of workload will allow health care workers to spend more time on other aspects of patient care, which would probably improve outcome and overall care of ICU patients and their families.
Interestingly, despite the decrease of the weekly workload of physicians (as PCP) and a decrease of the daily number of face-to face contacts with patients, on a working day, the total contact-time with the patients didn't change much in twenty years.
Re-use of the database as a source of information is expected to decrease the workload of repeated questions, but patient-specific characteristics of relevance to the answer process still has to be taken into account.
The main aim of the AGnES concept is to decrease the workload of GPs, especially in sparsely populated regions with an imminent or already existing undersupply of GPs.
7 In Ethiopia, there is a unique opportunity to shift demand generation activities and decrease the workload of HEWs in the Health Development Army initiative a new cadre of volunteer community health aide consisting of one woman from every five rural households trained in demonstrating "model health behaviors" to their communities.
The proposed approach could decrease the workload of the air traffic controllers, thus improving the Air Traffic Management (ATM) capacity while meeting the maximum possible expectations of the Airspace Users' requirements in terms of horizontal flight efficiency.
