Intermountain Healthcare's McKay-Dee Hospital Center: Driving Down Readmissions by Caring for Patients the "Right Way"

Outlines the hospital's strategies for low readmission rates for heart failure and pneumonia, including standardization of care, interdisciplinary care coordination and discharge planning, and integration with community providers, and lessons learned

Assessing the Non-Financial Predictors of the Success and Failure of Young Firms in the Netherlands

In this study, the Lussier (1995) success and failure prediction model is improved and tested on a sample of Dutch firms. Besides clearly defining a specific business plan, work experience is added as a variable, and contrary to previous researches, the discrete variables are dealt with appropriate this time. The results of this improved model show that product/service timing, planning, management experience, knowledge of marketing, economic timing, professional advice, and having a business partner are predictors of success and failure for young firms in the Netherlands.Business Planning, Small Business, and Success in Business

Primitive hepatic venous plexus in a child with scimitar syndrome and pulmonary sequestration

This article reports a case of scimitar syndrome with pulmonary sequestration, persistent primitive hepatic venous plexus and stenosis of the inferior vena cava in a child presenting with failure to thrive. Such associations are rare but may have implications when planning interventions for patients with complex congenital heart diseasepeer-reviewe

An innovation for the goal structure of entrepreneurship education? Comments on the article of Fritz Oser and Thierry Volery "\u27Sense of failure\u27 and \u27sense of success\u27 among entrepreneurs: the identification and promotion of neglected twin entrepreneurial competencies"

[The author] judges the presented prospect of bringing together “sense of success” and “sense of failure” for planning, conducting and evaluating programs of entrepreneurship education together with the implementation of corresponding empirical research a fruitful proposal for promoting and supporting founders\u27 effective and efficient behavior. (DIPF/Orig.

ERP customization failure: Institutionalized accounting practices, power relations and market forces

Purpose: This paper examines a detailed case study of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) customization failure in an Egyptian state-owned company (AML) by drawing on new institutional sociology and its extensions. It explains how ERP customization failure is shaped by the interplay between institutionalised accounting practices, conflicting institutions, power relations and market forces. Methodology/Approach: The research methodology is based on using an intensive case study informed by new institutional sociology, especially the interplay between conflicting institutions, power relations and market forces. Data were collected from multiple sources, including interviews, observations, discussions and documentary analysis. Findings: The findings revealed that the inability of the ERP system to meet the core accounting requirements of the control authorities (the Central Agency for Accountability) was the explicit reason cited for the ERP failure. The externally imposed requirements of the Uniform Accounting System and planning budgets were used to resist both other institutional pressures (from the Holding Company for Engineering Industries) and market and competitive pressures. Research limitations: There are some limitations associated with the use of the case study method, including the inability to generalize from the findings of a single case study, some selectivity in the individuals interviewed, and the subjective interpretation by the researchers of the empirical data. Practical implications: The paper identifies that the interplay between institutional pressures, institutionalised accounting practices, intra-organizational power relations, and market forces contributed to the failure to embed ERP in a major company. Understanding such relationships can help other organisations to become more aware of the factors affecting successful implementation of new ERP systems and provide a better basis for planning the introduction of new technologies. Originality/value of paper: This paper draws on recent research and thinking in sociology, especially the development and application of new institutional sociology. In addition, the paper is concerned with ERP implementation and use and management accounting in a transitional economy, Egypt, and hence contributes to debate about exporting Western accounting practices and other technologies to countries with different cultures and different stages of economic and political development. Classification: Research paper/ case stud

Providing a Basic Level of Water and Sanitation Services that Last: Cost Benchmarks

Data collected by WASHCost using the life-cycle costs approach suggest benchmarks for the capital and recurrent costs of providing basic levels of sustainable water supply and sanitation service. The benchmarks should be interpreted with the understanding that local contexts can greatly influence cost. Nevertheless, the ranges presented will be useful for planning, assessing sustainability, and monitoring, and expenditure that significantly deviates is more likely to result in reduced service levels or long-term failure

A simple state-based prognostic model for filter clogging

In today's maintenance planning, fuel filters are replaced or cleaned on a regular basis. Monitoring and implementation of prognostics on filtration system have the potential to avoid costs and increase safety. Prognostics is a fundamental technology within Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM). Prognostic models can be categorised into three major categories: 1) Physics-based models 2) Data-driven models 3) Experience-based models. One of the challenges in the progression of the clogging filter failure is the inability to observe the natural clogging filter failure due to time constraint. This paper presents a simple solution to collect data for a clogging filter failure. Also, it represents a simple state-based prognostic with duration information (SSPD) method that aims to detect and forecast clogging of filter in a laboratory based fuel rig system. The progression of the clogging filter failure is created unnaturally. The degradation level is divided into several groups. Each group is defined as a state in the failure progression of clogging filter. Then, the data is collected to create the clogging filter progression states unnaturally. The SSPD method consists of three steps: clustering, clustering evaluation, and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation. Prognosis results show that the SSPD method is able to predicate the RUL of the clogging filter accurately