Better Decisions through management accounting

Better decisions through science: exercise testing scores.

Statistical tools can be used to create scores for assisting in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease and assessing prognosis. General practitioners and internists frequently function as gatekeepers, deciding which patients must be referred to the cardiologist. Therefore, they need to use the basic tools they have available (ie, history, physical examination and the exercise test) in an opti...

Better Government through Information Management

This document was prepared by the Federal Information Resources Management Policy Council (FIRMPoC), which includes representation from all Federal agencies. The FIRMPoC is chaired jointly by the Office Management and Budget, the General Services Administration, and an official from one of the member agencies. The document is a compendium of selected Federal information management initiatives t...

saving lives in the process Better DECISIONS through SCIENCE

agonizing over whether an ambiguous spot is a tumor. A parole board weighs the release of a potentially violent criminal. A technician at an airport worries over a set of ultrasound readings: do they suggest a deadly crack in an airplane’s wing? All these people are grappling with diagnostic decisions. In spite of incomplete or ambiguous evidence, they must determine whether or not a certain co...

[Better informed decisions in the management of osteoporosis].

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