Measuring Resource Utilization

Measuring Resource Utilization

A variety of methods may be used to obtain costing data. Although administrative data are most commonly used, the data available in these datasets are often limited. An alternative method of obtaining costing is through self-reported questionnaires. Currently, there are no systematic reviews that summarize self-reported resource utilization instruments from the published literature.The aim of t...

Measuring Web Portal Utilization

Content-aggregating Web portals such as yahoo.com are becoming increasingly popular. Until recently, many of these Web sites positioned themselves as ‘search engines’ or ‘navigational directories’. However, over time, these sites made the transition to Web portals by incorporating additional features such as news, maps, driving directions, chat rooms, email services, and many others. By doing s...

Reconciling resource utilization and resource selection functions.

1. Analyses based on utilization distributions (UDs) have been ubiquitous in animal space use studies, largely because they are computationally straightforward and relatively easy to employ. Conventional applications of resource utilization functions (RUFs) suggest that estimates of UDs can be used as response variables in a regression involving spatial covariates of interest. 2. It has been cl...

P2P Streaming and Resource Utilization

Hospital-resource utilization and tuberculosis.

As I sat down to write this editorial, I was paged by a colleague who had just learned that she may have pulmonary tuberculosis. She had a very strong exposure history in a highly endemic area of the world within the past year, a positive tuberculin skin test, and a “soft” but compatible history of recent symptoms. Her only available diagnostic test, a chest radiograph, obtained because of a no...