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Carolinas Medical Center: Demonstrating High Quality in the Public Sector
Outlines safety and quality improvement strategies including electronic medical records, multidisciplinary teams accountable to leadership, reporting of performance indicators; and redesigned care processes. Discusses physician buy-in and nurses' roles
A bibliography on parallel and vector numerical algorithms
This is a bibliography of numerical methods. It also includes a number of other references on machine architecture, programming language, and other topics of interest to scientific computing. Certain conference proceedings and anthologies which have been published in book form are listed also
Memorial Healthcare System: A Public System Focusing on Patient- and Family-Centered Care
Outlines a successful multifaceted strategy that includes personalizing healthcare quality, monitoring and reporting of performance data, careful design of care processes, and the system's vertical and horizontal integration. Lists lessons learned
Bayesian variable selection using cost-adjusted BIC, with application to cost-effective measurement of quality of health care
In the field of quality of health care measurement, one approach to assessing
patient sickness at admission involves a logistic regression of mortality
within 30 days of admission on a fairly large number of sickness indicators (on
the order of 100) to construct a sickness scale, employing classical variable
selection methods to find an ``optimal'' subset of 10--20 indicators. Such
``benefit-only'' methods ignore the considerable differences among the sickness
indicators in cost of data collection, an issue that is crucial when admission
sickness is used to drive programs (now implemented or under consideration in
several countries, including the U.S. and U.K.) that attempt to identify
substandard hospitals by comparing observed and expected mortality rates (given
admission sickness). When both data-collection cost and accuracy of prediction
of 30-day mortality are considered, a large variable-selection problem arises
in which costly variables that do not predict well enough should be omitted
from the final scale. In this paper (a) we develop a method for solving this
problem based on posterior model odds, arising from a prior distribution that
(1) accounts for the cost of each variable and (2) results in a set of
posterior model probabilities that corresponds to a generalized cost-adjusted
version of the Bayesian information criterion (BIC), and (b) we compare this
method with a decision-theoretic cost-benefit approach based on maximizing
expected utility. We use reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC)
methods to search the model space, and we check the stability of our findings
with two variants of the MCMC model composition () algorithm.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOAS207 the Annals of
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Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Solution of partial differential equations on vector and parallel computers
The present status of numerical methods for partial differential equations on vector and parallel computers was reviewed. The relevant aspects of these computers are discussed and a brief review of their development is included, with particular attention paid to those characteristics that influence algorithm selection. Both direct and iterative methods are given for elliptic equations as well as explicit and implicit methods for initial boundary value problems. The intent is to point out attractive methods as well as areas where this class of computer architecture cannot be fully utilized because of either hardware restrictions or the lack of adequate algorithms. Application areas utilizing these computers are briefly discussed
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Advancing Pharmacist Collaborative Care within Academic Health Systems.
INTRODUCTION:The scope of pharmacy practice has evolved over the last few decades to focus on the optimization of medication therapy. Despite this positive impact, the lack of reimbursement remains a significant barrier to the implementation of innovative pharmacist practice models. SUMMARY:We describe the successful development, implementation and outcomes of three types of pharmacist collaborative care models: (1) a pharmacist with physician oversight, (2) pharmacist-interprofessional teams and (3) physician-pharmacist teams. The outcome measurement of these pharmacist care models varied from the design phase to patient volume measurement and to comprehensive quality dashboards. All of these practice models have been successfully funded by affiliated health systems or grants. CONCLUSIONS:The expansion of pharmacist services delivered by clinical faculty has several benefits to affiliated health systems: (1) significant improvements in patient care quality, (2) access to experts in specialty areas, and (3) the dissemination of outcomes with national and international recognition, increasing the visibility of the health system
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