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Improving the US health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving
the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of …

Objective —To conduct serologic surveillance for Leishmania spp in English Foxhounds
from a kennel, as well as recipients of blood from these dogs, and determine whether L …

Article-at-a-Glance Background A “bundle” of ventilator care processes (peptic ulcer disease
prophylaxis, deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis, elevation of the head of the bed, and a …

Purpose: To develop and implement a set of valid and reliable yet practical measures of
intensive care units (ICU) quality of care in a cohort of ICUs and to estimate, based on current …

The automated teller machine that dispenses cash and other banking transactions has
become ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Most machines follow one of two sequences to …

The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) investigation of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
addresses the chemical and isotopic composition of the atmosphere and volatiles extracted …

The financial implications of implementing quality improvements are often poorly understood.
Simply put, does improving quality yield a return on investment? We examine four cases—…

Often, several individual performance measures are used to assess care of the same
condition. For example, a recent summary of data on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of …

The oft-cited statistic that “80% of data is unstructured” reminds industry leaders and analytics
professionals about the vast volume of untapped text data resources. Predictably, there …