Rethinking Critical Care: Decreasing Sedation, Increasing Delirium Monitoring, and Increasing Patient Mobility

Increasing anticholinergic burden and delirium in palliative care inpatients.

BACKGROUND Delirium may complicate the hospital course and adversely impact remaining quality of life for palliative care inpatients. Medications with anticholinergic properties have been linked to delirium within elderly populations via serum anticholinergic assays. AIM The aim of this study is to determine whether increasing anticholinergic burden, as measured using a clinical assessment to...

Increasing and Decreasing Subsequences and Their Variants

We survey the theory of increasing and decreasing subsequences of permutations. Enumeration problems in this area are closely related to the RSK algorithm. The asymptotic behavior of the expected value of the length is(w) of the longest increasing subsequence of a permutation w of 1, 2, . . . , n was obtained by Vershik-Kerov and (almost) by Logan-Shepp. The entire limiting distribution of is(w...

Partitioning Permutations into Increasing and Decreasing Subsequences

Increasing and Decreasing with Fuzzy Time Series

There is a significant problem associated with the fuzzy time series. That is a strict increasing and decreasing case. Under the discussion case, fuzzy time series model arise a continuous increasing/decreasing forecasting value. From the illustrative example, we can see that our definition not only define the trend of the fuzzy numbers that represent the linguistic values of the linguistic var...

Increasing Fundraising Success by Decreasing Donor Choice∗

Suggested contributions, membership categories, and discrete, incremental thank-you gifts are devices often used by benevolent associations that provide public goods. Such devices focus donations into discrete levels, thereby effectively limiting the donors’ freedom to give. We study the effects on overall donations of the tradeoff between rigid schemes that severely restrict the choices of con...