"A good presidential campaign would have mobilized town committees and ward structures to get out the vote and would have been used to the idea of mobilizing street money, where you held out financial rewards for getting people to the polls".
These included a reorganisation of the Hospital A ward structure during the baseline phase.
It has been shown that disease-oriented and efficiency-driven ward structures work against the provision of PCC [ 13].
11 The facilities offer a mix of assisted living and nursing care, combining different forms, ranging from apartments to nursing ward structures.
Sociological research on interprofessional interactions and relations informs us that ward structure and team design can certainly influence the culture of communication and health care providers' experiences with the quality and effectiveness of interprofessional work [ 35- 39].
The initial intervention was part of a comprehensive health promotion project in three units of Austria's largest provider of residential aged care in Vienna, which offers a mix of assisted living (in apartment structures) and nursing care in different types of ward structure.
Among the respondents, the most experienced staff worked at the most highly structured ward, ward A (table 1).
Nursing services in hospital wards are structured and organized in different ways, with corresponding variations in the organization of the workforce and care processes.
Thus, attending the jogging sessions made higher demands on patients' self-regulation in the autonomy-focused wards relative to the highly structured wards.
The lack of such information has so far limited the guidelines on preventive strategies for the epidemiology of hospital acquired infections mostly to general and qualitative recommendations, that cannot take into account the characteristics of patients, procedures, hospital wards, structures and logistics, and the related heterogeneities across diverse hospital settings [18].
Ward A is structured with 4 single rooms and 12 multi-bed rooms whereas ward C has 9 single rooms with 1 multi-bed room.
