Our descriptive account identified staff views on the key factors that facilitated or undermined the recruitment and retention of patients into research.
In their descriptive study of "infrastructure" staff who work in child care agencies across California but do not deliver direct services to children, Whitebook et al. (2012) found that staff on average had high levels of education (BA or higher) but fewer held degrees in early childhood education.
This cross-sectional, descriptive study recruited academic staff and students at a large Australian university across a number of health sciences disciplines and stages of training, to complete a self-report questionnaire.
Forty four percent of EDs are more than 300 km away from a level 1 trauma center and 48%% are more than 300 km from a level 2 trauma center, and only 30%% of these EDs had air transport access.> -wrap-foot> aStandeviationaTableTable 2 presents descriptive statistics of ED staff.
This study used a descriptive design to: (1) assess staff's perceived barriers and attitudes toward safe patient handling, (2) identify staff needs for equipment and education concerning safe patient handling, and (3) involve staff in the equipment selection process before implementing a safe patient handling program.
Descriptive statistics about total nursing staff and population were collected by SMAs.
Table 1 presents descriptive statistics for facility-based staff receiving selected non-pecuniary benefits.
This cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among staff nurses working at one public hospital (Kenyatta National Hospital, (KNH) and one private hospital (Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH).
To explore whether these hypothesized benefits can be realized in practice, we conducted a descriptive analysis of HR integration, staff time utilization and workload in all 40 Integra project sites in Kenya and Swaziland, using a three stage approach.
For now, rather than using this as an outcome variable, perhaps it is best used as a descriptive measure to assess changes in staff event reporting over time until event reporting becomes more of a norm for staff in hospitals.
