Abstract Background Quality indicators (QIs) provide a mechanism for measuring opportunities to improve cardiovascular care and outcomes. To help improving quality of in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the European Society Cardiology (ESC) set 20 QIs evaluate several dimensions care. These are organized 3 areas 7 domain defined structural, performance measures including patient...

in our previous work, the effect of use of a water soluble cdi/nhs system as nontoxic cross-linking agent on fabrication of gelatin nanoparticles was investigated. in this research, the effect of variation in some synthetic parameters of gelatin nanoparticles cross-linked by cdi/nhs system such as type of gelatin and formulation of cross- linking agent on their size and distribution was examine...

Purpose Qualified immigrants (QIs) and their work experiences have been studied using a wide variety of theoretical approaches with divergent characteristics. This paper reviews progress proposes directions for future research practice. Design/methodology/approach Using relevant keywords, articles indexed by Web Science in management, business, industrial relations applied psychology were syste...

Abstract Quantum information scrambling (QIS), from the perspective of quantum theory, is generally understood as local non-retrievability evolved through some dynamical process, and often quantified via entropic quantities such tripartite information. We argue that this approach comes with a number issues, in large part due to its reliance on mutual informations, which do not faithfully quanti...

Patient safety is the foundation of good care. In the last decades, a body of evidence has been accumulated to demonstrate that pre- and post-analytical phase are more vulnerable to errors in laboratory medicine than the analytical phase. Aims of the project of the IFCC Working Group on "Laboratory Errors and Patient Safety" (WG-LEPS) are: a) to develop a series of Quality Indicators (QIs), spe...

Providing personalized treatments designed to maximize benefits and minimizing harms is of tremendous current medical interest. One problem in this area is the evaluation of the interaction between the treatment and other predictor variables. Treatment effects in subgroups having the same direction but different magnitudes are called quantitative interactions, whereas those having opposite dire...

THE issues of stability and sensitivity of indicators to actually detect differences in quality of care in nursing facilities are not only of concern to researchers, but also to public policy makers, who are reporting indicators to providers and now to consumers. Our research team at the University of Missouri-Columbia recently completed a study of 92 randomly selected nursing homes with a rang...

The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) may be slow in coming but that does not mean that it is not the Conservative-led UK government’s desired end state. The government is displaying tactical cunning in achieving its long-term purpose to remould the British state. Powell seeks greater clarity amidst the confusion but the lack of clarity is a principal weapon in the government’s...

Summary A survey of the forms and distribution hieroglyphic logogram for town Qis ( qjs ). typology sign-forms is proposed on basis sign lists selected examples from Fifth to Nineteenth Dynasties. Patterns in sign-form usage during Old Middle Kingdoms are discussed, reasons variation through New suggested.

this commentary explores some of the issues raised by gilbert et al.short communication, morality and markets in the nhs. the increasing role of market mechanisms and the changing types of healthcare providers together with the use of choice and competition to drive improvements in quality in the national health service (nhs), all have important ethical implications. in order for the nhs to con...