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Feminine hospitality? An analysis of selected hospitality practices

Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2020 | No 1 | 83-106

Keywords hospitality hospitality practices gender hostess host guest home privacy

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This text contains an analysis of the ways in which men and women engage in selected hospitality practices, including such questions as the feminine transmis sion of hospitality patterns, the division of responsibilities in preparing for guests, and places for meeting socially (at home and outside the home). On the basis of material gathered by the team of the Archive of Research on Everyday Life, the author finds numerous paradoxes and inconsistencies between women’s beliefs and their behaviors. In attempting a theoretical explanation, reference is made to the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Claude Kaufmann, Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, and Monica Rudberg. Analysis leads to the conclusion that the multiple and time-con suming responsibilities associated with receiving guests mostly fall to women and thus contribute to their ability to sustain symbolic power over the home space. Consequently, hospitality perpetuates the traditional division into what is public and considered “masculine” and what is private or “feminine.”

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Bogumiła Mateja-Jaworska

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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza

Sacrum in hospital complexes – the case of stummer’s hospital in Topoľčany

Katarína Kristiánová

Teka Komisji Urbanistyki i Architektury Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie | 2018 | 639–647

Keywords hospital chapels hospital gardens symbolism of trees sacred landscapes

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Sacred spaces in hospitals – chapels or sacred gardens, as places of peace and tranquility, address spiritual needs of the patients and their families. The paper examines the elements creating the phenomenon of sacrum in the composition of the historical Stummer`s hospital in Topoľčany. Today the historical hospital complex is not used for its former functions and the question is how to preserve the sacred phenomena in the context of its future new uses.

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Katarína Kristiánová

Living zones of the imagination: receiving guests as a practice of resistance

Adam Pisarek

Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2020 | No 1 | 4-23

Keywords hospitality resistance practices social imagination interpretive labor

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This article concerns “living zones of the imagination”—areas of social life in which intensive “interpretive labor” is underway. Thanks to these zones, it is possible to engage in universally accepted exercises that enable a person to “see the world through the eyes of another person” and that yet do not disturb the current socio-cultural order. They provide an important basis for understanding among people, for harmonizing meanings in the sphere of social realities, and for integration that goes beyond certain permanent boundaries and hierarchies. The basic aim of the article is to prove that hospitality, understood as a value in Polish culture, could contribute to a considerable degree to the creation of such zones. The author analyzes the zones’ character, function, and meaning, paying attention to how they resist the expansion of bureaucratic ways of organizing social life. He also draws attention to the influence that an axio-normative pattern could have within specific models of behavior and cultural practices. Key words: hospitality, resistance practices, social imagination, interpretive labor

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Adam Pisarek

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Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

The class dimension of hospitality: the diversity of dispositions organizing hospitality practices

Marta Skowrońska

Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2020 | No 1 | 25-59

Keywords hospitality social practices habitus social classes

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This article looks at hospitality practices in the process of recreating and modifying social structure. The author seeks the general regularities and behavioral patterns that appear when people visit others and are visited, as well as how they speak of these visits, or, in Pierre Bourdieu’s language, the principles that organize practices that are part of the class habitus. For the purposes of the analysis, two comparative groups were selected: people with the highest and lowest levels of economic, social, and cultural capital. The analysis allowed several conclusions to be drawn. First, in addition to the class factor, the age or generational factor should be taken into account as it has proven to be relevant in terms of the diversity of practices. Second, the research showed that several of the practices studied were not differentiated between the groups; they turned out to be intense in the case of people with high and low levels of capital. Such patterns involved informality and freedom, the striving for agreement and group solidarity, and an aversion to aesthetics and decoration. Third, there were sometimes differentiating nuances—the general principle could be the same, but the justification or motivation behind it was different. For people with a high level of both types of capital, naturalness/honesty was an important justification and was contrasted to falsehood, artificiality, and pretentiousness. This justification seemed to be a meta-principle that permeated many other patterns of behavior.

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Marta Skowrońska

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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza

The class dimension of hospitality: the diversity of dispositions organizing hospitality practices

Marta Skowrońska

Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2020 | No 1 | 25-59

Keywords hospitality social practices habitus social class

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This article looks at hospitality practices in the process of recreating and modifying social structure. The author seeks the general regularities and behavioral patterns that appear when people visit others and are visited, as well as how they speak of these visits, or, in Pierre Bourdieu’s language, the principles that organize practices that are part of the class habitus. For the purposes of the analysis, two comparative groups were selected: people with the highest and lowest levels of economic, social, and cultural capital. The analysis allowed several conclusions to be drawn. First, in addition to the class factor, the age or generational factor should be taken into account as it has proven to be relevant in terms of the diversity of practices. Second, the research showed that several of the practices studied were not differentiated between the groups; they turned out to be intense in the case of people with high and low levels of capital. Such patterns involved informality and freedom, the striving for agreement and group solidarity, and an aversion to aesthetics and decoration. Third, there were sometimes differentiating nuances—the general principle could be the same, but the justification or motivation behind it was different. For people with a high level of both types of capital, naturalness/honesty was an important justification and was contrasted to falsehood, artificiality, and pretentiousness. This justification seemed to be a meta-principle that permeated many other patterns of behavior.

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Marta Skowrońska

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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza

Self-limiting sociablity: food, alcohol, coffee, and the three principles of hospitality economics

Ariel Modrzyk

Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2020 | No 1 | 108-127

Keywords hospitality sociology of everyday life alcohol coffee food

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The author of the text focuses on the economics of everyday life as defined by a contextual and qualitative measuring of various aspects of hospitality through the use of terms such as “more,” “less,” and “just right.” He analyzes the presence of food, alcohol, and coffee during the visit of guests. Each of these three material components of hospitality is regulated according to specific principles: “too much is better than too little” in regard to food, “too little is better than too much” for alcohol, and there has to be “at least” coffee. A detailed analysis of these principles leads to the conclusion that Polish hospitality is today oriented toward moderation. The popular belief in the abundance of Polish hospitality as a national feature is thus called into question.

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Ariel Modrzyk

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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza

Assessment of feline hospitalization environment using a one-way mirror

T. Miyata R. Higuchi K. Yokobori S. Seki K. Ishioka

Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences | 2023 | vol. 26 | No 2 | 307-309 | DOI: 10.24425/pjvs.2023.145026

Keywords Cat Stress Score hospitalization one-way mirror

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A separate, cat-specific hospitalization room away from dogs is recommended to reduce stress in cats; however, this can be difficult for some hospitals to provide. In such cases, measures are undertaken to reduce the cat’s stress by providing a place to hide. However, inability to observe the cat’s condition may be an obstacle to providing veterinary care. The use of a one-way mirror to create a sheltered environment while allowing observation of the cats was assessed. Five healthy cats were assessed using the Cat Stress Score (CSS) while in a cage with either a transparent panel or a one-way mirror. No significant differences in the CSS between the transparent panel and one-way mirror were observed. Variations in the CSS scores depended on the cat’s personality, with friendlier and more sociable cats showing a lower CSS with the one-way mirror. A one-way mirror may be useful to reduce stress in hospitalized cats.

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T. Miyata

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R. Higuchi

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K. Yokobori

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S. Seki

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K. Ishioka

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School of Veterinary Nursing and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, 1-7-1 Kyonan-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan

Polish hospitality in the light of autobiographical memories

Dorota Rancew-Sikora

Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2020 | No 1 | 61-82

Keywords biographical perspective episodic memories social mechanisms of hospitality social mobility crisis

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In order to describe the features of Polish hospitality, autobiographical records containing memories of hospitality from various historical periods were compiled. The research material included about 300 episodes from 30 published sources. A targeted selection was made according to a combination of three criteria: a di versity of social positions among the authors, the biographies of the authors, and the detail of description. An analysis of the material was conducted in order to contribute to a better understanding of the social significance of hospitality. The oretical assumptions about hospitality in conditions of stability and social crisis were advanced. The analysis showed that in times of relative stability, hospital ity was biographically important when it allowed a person to transition between positions in the social structure (usually between close levels) and involved some form of promotion. On the other hand, in conditions of intensified change and crises, the order was disturbed: on the one hand, visits to the homes of persons occupying more distant positions in the hierarchy (both up and down the social ladder) became more common, but on the other hand, there could be a challenge to or rejection of traditional requirements of hospitality. The first situation occurs especially at the beginning of a crisis, and with the depletion of resources, the increase in the number of negative experiences, and socialization to a long-term threat, a survival strategy begins to take shape in which only the closest circles prevail. Such findings suggest that a more cautious look should be taken at both the theoretical concepts in which hospitality is considered a useful social invention especially in times of increased need and at the Polish self-stereotype as a nation with a culture based on hospitality, invariable generosity, and an inclination to selflessness.

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Dorota Rancew-Sikora

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Uniwersytet Gdański

Ambiguous hospitality: an analysis of selected instances in the novel the Doll and the film Green Book

Paweł Ćwikła

Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2020 | No 1 | 130-148

Keywords hospitality Sociology of literature sociology of art one’s own and oyhers racial segregation

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The subject of this article falls within the sociology of art. By analyzing selected aspects of a novel (Bolesław Prus’s The Doll) and a film (the Oscar-winning Green Book directed by Peter Farrelly), the author raises the problem of what he calls “ambiguous hospitality.” His point of departure and theoretical basis are George Ritzer’s concept of “inhospitality” and Jacques Derrida’s idea of “hostipitality.” The author treats each artistic depiction of reality as a source of situations to be read in light of elements of Erving Goffman’s reflections. He uses the ideas of symbolic interactionism, the interactive ritual, and the metaphor of the performance as tools for interpreting a film or literary situation that illustrates cultural attitudes and practices. In conclusion, he states that hosting someone could result from something other than a sincere desire to react to another human being in a friendly manner. However, this does necessarily undermine the sincerity of openness toward strangers. Realization of the maxim to “have dignity and respect others,” even if enforced by social sanction, can be a way to maintain or build relationships between those who are “one’s own” and “other,” “one’s own” and “strangers,” and finally, between a guest and host.

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Paweł Ćwikła

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Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Exploring the Structure of Volunteer Activities in Hospital Settings Using Multidimensional Scaling: A Preliminary Study

Jirapattara Raveepatarakul Sakkaphat T. Ngamake Chichaya Srichaisawat Witsinee Bovornusvakool Panrapee Suttiwan Nattanan Monkong Poonsub Areekit

Polish Psychological Bulletin | 2020 | vol. 51 | No 4 | 280-287 | DOI: 10.24425/ppb.2020.135460

Keywords volunteers multidimensional scaling placement job analysis hospital settings

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As the Thai people have been more aware of the importance of volunteering, the structure of volunteer activities in the country’s hospitals has become more complicated. As a result, medical personnel and volunteer organizations have faced challenges in connecting people with the activities most relevant to concerns and needs. In order to assist the host parties as well as individual volunteers, a system that can match the personal characteristics of volunteers to the demands of the activities needs to be developed. As a starting point, multidimensional scaling was used in this study to reveal a working structure for volunteer activities by exploring major dimensions underlying the similarity and dissimilarity between these activities. Twenty-three volunteer activities proposed by a panel of experts and stakeholders were subject to an ordinal (non-metric) multidimensional scaling. All but one volunteer activity can be grouped along three dimensions: hospital-related, lecturing versus group leading, and empathic communication. These three dimensions can serve as a blueprint for identifying personal characteristics that may be essential to each activity and for designing a system for volunteer recruitment and placement.

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Jirapattara Raveepatarakul

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Sakkaphat T. Ngamake

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Chichaya Srichaisawat

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Witsinee Bovornusvakool

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Panrapee Suttiwan

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Nattanan Monkong

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Poonsub Areekit

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Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University

The „terrifying” and „strange” mundanity of man: Understanding the protagonist in F. Dostoevsky’s work ( The Eternal Husband in focus)

Michał Kruszelnicki

Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria | 2021 | No 2 | 245-263 | DOI: 10.24425/pfns.2021.137382

Keywords F. Dostoevsky „The Eternal Husband” hospitality interpretation language mystery understanding

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What major reflection does Dostoevsky’s work impel, when it refrains from pondering great metaphysical ideas? It invites us to consider the mystery of the human being and the impossibility of providing an ultimate explanation of this enigma. It also shows us that delving into the human psyche and judging it is an ambivalent and risky act against which human self defends itself. In this consistent evasion of cognitive and interpretive closure, it finds a mighty ally in the artistic language of the Russian novelist. Dostoevsky’s psychological and philosophical idea of the individual finds its distinct reflection in the poetics of his works. This paper explores and explains this relation by way of an analysis of Dostoevsky’s lesser known story – The Eternal Husband.

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Michał Kruszelnicki

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Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa, Wydział Studiów Stosowanych, ul. Strzegomska 55, 53‑611 Wrocław

Functional and spatial considerations in hospital ergonomic design

Jacek Orłowski Andrzej Walkowski Maciej Złowodzki

Teka Komisji Urbanistyki i Architektury Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie | 2013 | vol. XLI | 107-127

Keywords ergonomy health service hospital design building structure function and form

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There is estrimated more than 750 (public and privat) hospitals active In Poland. In spite that there is legal regulation concerning hospital projects, realization and equipment – permanent financial problems concerning a public health service, results in standards of hospitals, much worse then represented in hospitals in highly developed countries. A long – term practice of authors, concerning both, design and implementation of hospitals, let them to formulate a set of remarks about disfunction, influalcing growth of a danger, risks and mistakes in medical practice, also unexpected accidents.

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Jacek Orłowski

Andrzej Walkowski

Maciej Złowodzki

Aktion T4 memorials: one type of contemporary interventions in historical 19th/20th century psychiatric hospital parks

Anna Staniewska

Teka Komisji Urbanistyki i Architektury Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie | 2017 | vol. XLV | 217–232

Keywords historical gardens memorials psychiatric hospital gardens therapeutic gardens

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Parks and gardens of psychiatric hospitals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are a particular example of garden design art and testify to the role of designed landscape in therapy. Along with the evolution of psychiatry within the last 100 years, institutions for neurotic and mental patients have evolved too. Besides being adapted for contemporary purposes, hospital gardens have also become sites of commemoration of the victims of Nazi euthanasia of psychiatric patients, perpetrated during the Second World War. This article describes selected Aktion T4 memorials in their park and garden landscape context.

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Anna Staniewska

CRACoV-HHS: an interdisciplinary project for multi-specialist hospital and non-hospital care for patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection as well hospital staff assessment for infection exposure

Wojciech Sydor Barbara Wizner Magdalena Strach Monika Bociąga-Jasik Krzysztof Mydel Agnieszka Olszanecka Marek Sanak Maciej Małecki Jadwiga Wójkowska-Mach Robert Chrzan Aleksander Garlicki Tomasz Gosiewski Marcin Krzanowski Jarosław Surowiec Stefan Bednarz Marcin Jędrychowski Tomasz Grodzicki The CraCoV-HHS Investigators

Folia Medica Cracoviensia | 2021 | Vol. 61 | No 4 | 5-44 | DOI: 10.24425/fmc.2021.140002

Keywords SARS-CoV-2 infection patients with COVID-19 hospital care non-hospital care remote care multi-specialists care observational study medical staff

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The complex course of the COVID-19 and the distant complications of the SARS-CoV-2 infection still remain an unfaded challenge for modern medicine. The care of patients with the sympto-matic course of COVID-19 exceeds the competence of a single specialty, often requiring a multispecialist approach. The CRACoV-HHS (CRAcow in CoVid pandemic — Home, Hospital and Staff) project has been developed by a team of scientists and clinicians with the aim of optimizing medical care at hospital and ambulatory settings and treatment of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The CRACoV project integrates 26 basic and clinical research from multiple medical disciplines, involving different populations infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus and exposed to infection.
Between January 2021 and April 2022 we plan to recruit subjects among patients diagnosed and treated in the University Hospital in Cracow, the largest public hospital in Poland, i.e. 1) patients admitted to the hospital due to COVID-19 [main module: ‘Hospital’]; 2) patients with signs of infection who have been confirmed as having SARS-CoV-2 infection and have been referred to home isolation due to their mild course (module: ‘Home isolation’); 3) patients with symptoms of infection and high exposure to SARS- CoV-2 who have a negative RT-PCR test result. In addition, survey in various professional groups of hospital employees, both medical and non-medical, and final-fifth year medical students (module: ‘Staff’) is planned.
The project carries both scientific and practical dimension and is expected to develop a multidisciplinary model of care of COVID-19 patients as well as recommendations for the management of particular groups of patients including: asymptomatic patient or with mild symptoms of COVID-19; symptomatic patients requiring hospitalization due to more severe clinical course of disease and organ complications; patient requiring surgery; patient with diabetes; patient requiring psychological support; patient with undesirable consequences of pharmacological treatment.

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Wojciech Sydor

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Barbara Wizner

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Magdalena Strach

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Monika Bociąga-Jasik

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Krzysztof Mydel

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Agnieszka Olszanecka

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Marek Sanak

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Maciej Małecki

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Jadwiga Wójkowska-Mach

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Robert Chrzan

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Aleksander Garlicki

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Tomasz Gosiewski

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Marcin Krzanowski

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Jarosław Surowiec

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Stefan Bednarz

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Marcin Jędrychowski

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Tomasz Grodzicki

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The CraCoV-HHS Investigators

Center for Innovative Therapies, Clinical Research Coordination Center, University Hospital in Cracow, Poland
Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
Department of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
Steering Committee of the CRACoV-HHS
Deputy Director for Coordination and Development, University Hospital in Cracow, Poland
Department of Cardiology, Interventional Electrocardiology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
Department of Metabolic Diseases and Diabetology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
Chair of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
Department of Molecular Medical Microbiology, Chair of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
Department of Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Jagiellonian University Medical College; Deputy Medical Director, University Hospital in Cracow, Poland
Head of Quality, Hygiene and Infection Control Section at University Hospital in Cracow, Poland
Head of Primary Care Unit at University Hospital in Cracow, Poland
Director of University Hospital in Cracow, Poland

Value engineering and lifecycle cost analysis to improve cost performance in green hospital project

Ali Imron Albert Eddy Husin

Archives of Civil Engineering | 2021 | vol. 67 | No 4 | 497-510 | DOI: 10.24425/ace.2021.138514

Keywords green hospital SPSS FAST value engineering lifecycle cost analysis cost performance

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In green concept hospital work, several provisions must be obeyed so that all processes, including material selection, project implementation, and building operations, must refer to green principles. Green building planning and construction costs higher than conventional by 10–20%. By using theValue Engineering (VE) method and combined with the Lifecycle Cost Analysis (LCCA), the researcher applies the green hospital concept to a project which is a case study but is still cost-effective even lower than the original Bill of Quantity. To see the strong influence of effectiveness on the hospital project, the researcher distributed a questionnaire to stakeholders. The results of the questionnaire were processed and analyzed using the Statistics Products and Solution Services (SPSS) tool. VE is implemented after first creating a Function Analysis System Technique (FAST) diagram, before and after adding functions for certain work items. It turns out that the use of the VE and LCCA methods is very influential in improving cost performance. From the calculation of the VE method, the resulting costs are up to 2.62% of the initial cost and LCCA shows the payback period of the Solar Power Plant with time = 9:64 years 9 years 7 months. The novelty of this research is the selection materials and the green concept of working methods is still cost efficient and the installation of Photovoltaics (PV) on the roof of Hospital reaches a payback period which is feasible for new investment.

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Ali Imron

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Albert Eddy Husin

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Universitas Mercu Buana, Department of Civil Engineering, Jakarta Barat 11650, Indonesia

Lean Staff Management in the Light of the Covid-19: Exploratory Factors’ Analysis – Case Studies for Service Companies

Patrycja Żegleń Aldona Kluczek Daniela Matusikova

Management and Production Engineering Review | 2022 | vol. 13 | No 3 | 3-19 | DOI: 10.24425/mper.2022.142378

Keywords motivation Lean staff management Lean practice Hospitality sector COVID-19 Service company

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The main purpose of the paper is to identify and analyse a state of exploratory motivating factors in terms of lean management as the instrument of a policy of human resource management in the face of COVID-19 pandemic implemented in service companies. The main question is: if the motivation system used in the companies works out up against the unpredictable situation such as COVID-19 pandemic? The secondary purpose of the paper is to recognise relations and dependencies between these factors, and the question is: what factors have the strongest or the weakest relations with Lean Staff Management (LSM) tools? This research designed based on interview was conducted due to the lack of existing studies on the current status of motivating factors in terms of lean management tools in two service companies (case studies) in the light of COVID-19. The results show that factors influencing work efficiency in a dominating manner were, primarily, financial incentives (almost 21%), communications (around 21%), and workplace atmosphere (almost 18%). The paper investigates also the benefits and concerns of implementing LSM in service companies during the pandemic. This research might help the service organization’s management to identify the employees‘ problems to implement more effective lean services.

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Patrycja Żegleń

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Aldona Kluczek

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Daniela Matusikova

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University of Rzeszów, Poland
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
University of Presov, Slovakia

In-hospital mortality among patients with proximal femur fractures infected with COVID-19

Artur Fałek Szymon Skwarcz Marek Paździor

Folia Medica Cracoviensia | 2022 | Vol. 62 | No 4 | 63-76 | DOI: 10.24425/fmc.2022.144084

Keywords COVID-19 proximal femur fracture Polish experience with COVID-19 epidemiology in-hospital mortality

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The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reduced the number of orthopedic surgeries world-wide. The main reason for this was an introduction of numerous restrictions in the field of mobility, which resulted in reduction of circumstances predisposing to injuries. This had a positive impact on the overall readiness of the health system to fight the pandemic, thanks to saving human and material resources that could be successfully allocated in order to fight a new, previously unknown threat. On the other hand, such aimed administration of the system was not indifferent in terms of care quality directed towards traumatized patients, often requiring immediate measures (risk of infection transmission). This study aims to evaluate in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19 operated on proximal femur fractures. An attempt was also made to determine predictors influencing mortality rate among patients operated over the analyzed period.

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Artur Fałek

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Szymon Skwarcz

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Marek Paździor

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Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery and Spine Surgery, Independent Public Healthcare, Puławy, Poland

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