‘How to help your unwell child’: a sequential simulation project

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How to Boost Your Immune System Against Corona-virus Infection?

New emerging viruses like coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) infections are always frightening. We know little about theirtransmission, behaviors, clinical manifestations, and outcomes. There is no vaccine or therapeutic strategies to dealwith these infections yet. In this situation, preventive measures may be promising. Hand hygiene is a very importantissue in preventing viral infec...

How to help your low-income patients get prescription drugs.

www.aafp.org / fpm ■ F A M I L Y P R A C T I C E M A N A G E M E N T ■ 51 IL LU ST R A TI O N B Y J O H N P A TR IC K Anyone who has flipped through a newspaper recently knows that the escalating cost of prescription drugs is an issue of national concern, especially as such drugs become an increasingly significant element of medical care. The problem that higher medication prices pose for the u...

How inclusive leadership can help your practice adapt to change.

Krista W. Bowers, MD, Michaela Robertson, MS, and Michael L. Parchman, MD, MPH W are in the third year of a study to improve diabetes care in 40 small primary care clinics. Practice facilitators are working closely with the physicians and staff in these clinics to implement the chronic care model (CCM), a forerunner of the patient-centered medical home. One dominant theme that has emerged fr...

How to Avoid Hard Coding Variables in Your Simulation Model

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the ability of AutoMOD as a flexible modeling tool. Simulation models of material handling systems like those found in automotive paint shops & assembly systems often require many variables, conveyor speeds, and complex logic. These systems have many different variables associated with them. The most important ones are: conveyor speeds, carrier counts...