Returning unwanted medicines to pharmacies: prescribing to reduce waste

antibiotic and interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing

Nurses interventions to reduce unwanted noise.

The study evaluated the nurses' interventions to reduce unwanted noise. This hospital-based, descriptive study was conducted at a Training Hospital in the Eastern part of Turkey, Trabzon, between 15-30 January 2016. It was participated by 248 volunteer nurses. Nurses express the noise of visitors (96.3%) on the first rank among the kinds of noise. The results of the study showed that most of th...

Leveraging Good Intentions to Reduce Unwanted Network Traffic

We present a solution to reduce unwanted network traffic by enabling either side of a conversation to summarily terminate the conversation without the other endpoint’s cooperation. Our work is motivated by the observation that many compromised endhosts on the network are well-intentioned but easily compromised; these machines are often compromised and their resources used to attack others. We a...

Clustering Obsolete Computers to Reduce E-Waste

Personal computers contribute significantly to the growing problem of electronic waste. Every computer, when finished with, must be stored, dumped, recycled, or somehow re-used. Most are dumped, at a huge cost to health and the environment, as their owners succumb to the desire to keep up with the ever-increasing power of new computers. Supercomputers and computer clusters provide more power th...

Transparency to Reduce Surgical Implant Waste

BACKGROUND Rising health care costs and emphasis on value have placed the onus of reducing healthcare costs on the surgeon. METHODS Financial data from 3,973 hip, knee, and shoulder arthroplasties performed at a physician owned orthopedic hospital was retrospectively reviewed over a two-year period. A wasted implant financial report was posted starting the second year of the study. Each surge...