Value-Driven Spine Care

Defining value-driven care in head and neck oncology.

In the USA, increasing attention is being paid to adopting a value-based framework for measuring and ultimately improving health care delivery. Value is defined as the benefit achieved relative to costs. The numerator of the value equation includes quality of care and outcomes achieved. The denominator includes costs, both financial costs and harms of treatment. Herein, we describe these elemen...

Spine as an engine: effect of spine morphology on spine-driven quadruped locomotion

In quadruped animals, spinal movements contribute to locomotion in terms of controlling body posture and integrating limb and trunk actions. In this paper, we develop quadruped models with different numbers of spinal joints to demonstrate the spine-driven locomotion. Actuated spinal joint(s) are exclusively employed to these models with a minimalistic control strategy. We choose some typical in...

Value-Driven Information Gathering

We describe a decision-theoretic approach to information gathering from a distributed network of information sources. Our approach uses an explicit representation of the user’s decision model in order to plan and execute information gathering actions. The information gathering planner issues requests based on the value of information taking into account the computational resources and monetary ...

Value-driven Software Maintenance

This paper extends the concept of value-based software engineering as proposed by Boehm to the field of software maintenance. The various approaches to assessing the value of software products and to calculating the return of investment (ROI) on software projects are reviewed. The authors propose a methodology of value-driven software maintenance for assessing the value of software maintenance ...

Value-Driven Information Gathering