Health care isn’t a lost cause: We can effect change, one story and one experience at a time

“Reflection and Choice”: A One-Time Experience?

Nudging medical practice change one regulation at a time.

mission. “We don’t know how big a problem it is,” said Susan P. Montgomery, DVM, MPH, epidemiology team lead in the CDC’s parasitic diseases branch. Of the 17 Texas blood donors with confirmed Chagas disease in her study, Garcia noted 6 were suspected to have acquired the infection close to home. However, blood donor screening likely detects only a small percentage of local or imported US cases...

Leading quality change, one beat at a time.

This project used the Triad model integrating nurse’s clinical expertise with the best external research evidence, and took into account clinician and patient preferences in order to deliver quality nursing care. Results of Observation Data Collection (2008) • Alarms are silenced without intervention (troubleshoot alarm settings) the majority of the time. • Nurses were observed focusing on task...

One Loop at a Time

Classic techniques for proving termination require the identification of a measure mapping program states to the elements of a well founded domain and to show that this measure decreases with each iteration of a loop in the program. This is a global termination condition — there is a single measure which must be shown to decrease over all of the loops in the program. In this abstract we look at...

One step at a time

for these devices. But the macro layer of a network can be expanded to go a long way. In the near-term, the smartphone challenge is not about providing the capacity to cope with subscriber datausage, but is related to how the signaling system is configured. To build the networks that will cope with long-term predictions requires a new approach to network construction, heterogeneous networks – m...