Quality Measures that Matter

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Hospital-Based Palliative Care: Quality Metrics That Matter

R ecent data indicate that practitioners incorporate the latest medical evidence into their treatment decisions only 50% of the time, preferring to practice what they are comfortable with (Trusko, Pexton, Harrington, & Gupta, 2007). The result has been an increased spotlight on standardizing care and measuring outcomes to improve health-care quality. Quality-improvement metrics are essential fo...

Health Financing: Does Governance Quality Matter?

Abstract T his paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilisng panel data analysis, namely system...

Health Financing: Does Governance Quality Matter?

This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of health financing in 177 developed and developing countries. The study introduces the variables of government effectiveness and control of corruption to capture the impact of governance quality on different mechanisms of health financing. Utilizing panel data analysis, namely system-GMM estimators, to obtain unbia...

Patterns that matter

Pattern mining is one of the best-known concepts in Data Mining. A bigproblem in pattern mining is that humongous amounts of patterns can be minedeven from small datasets. This makes it hard for domain experts to discoverknowledge using pattern mining, for example in the field of Bioinformatics. Inthis thesis we address the pattern explosion using compression.We argue that t...