The Diffident Doctor

A Non-Diffident Combinatorial Optimization Algorithm

Branch and bound is a well known, all-purpose optimization strategy. It relies on the availability of a search tree evaluation function and maintains an upper bound cost as a reference for the pruning. This upper bound is updated each time a better solution is encountered. In this paper, we propose a non-diident optimization strategy that imposes this value. The computation of the bound is base...

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Follow-Up Visits in Doctor-Patient Communication: The Vietnamese Case

In a “follow-up visit”, a patient seeks medical attention for an existing health problem. Using data from the Vietnamese public hospital system, we present a more nuanced analysis of follow-ups in health communication than the one currently available. To be specific, we discriminate between “same follow-ups”, in which the doctor is the same one as in the last visit, and “different follow-ups”, ...

The Position of E-Health in Reshaping Doctor/Patient Communications

Accessibility to all levels of information technology has experienced rapid progress in recent years, particularly in the health sector. Rapid penetration into this technology has led to changes in lifestyles and changes in the working procedures of institutions. In 2014, the number of Internet users reached 3 billion, and this number is predicted to exceed 8 billion in 2018. Statistics estimat...

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