BACKGROUND The "To Err is Human" report published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1999 called for a national effort to make health care safer. Although the report has been widely credited with spawning efforts to study and improve safety in health care, there has been limited objective assessment of its impact. We evaluated the effects of the IOM report on patient safety publications and ...

BACKGROUND The Institute of Medicine (IOM) guidelines are the most widely used guidelines on gestational weight gain; however, accumulation of evidence that body composition in Asians differs from other races has brought concern regarding whether their direct application is appropriate. We aimed to study to what extent optimal gestational weight gain among women in Japan differs by pre-pregnanc...

Developing accurate models for photovoltaic (PV) systems has a significant impact on the evaluation of accuracy and testing PV systems. Artificial intelligence (AI) is science developing machine jobs to be more intelligent, similar human brain. Involving AI techniques in modeling modification developed models. In this paper, novel dynamic model based proposed. The proposed was designed an adapt...

The accuracy of state charge estimation results will directly affect the performance battery management system. Due to such, we focus in this article on SOC Lithium-Ion batteries based a fractional second-order RC model with free noninteger differentiation orders. For such an estimation, three Kalman filters are employed: adaptive extended filter (AEKF), (EKF), and Unscented Filter (UKF). Fract...

PURPOSE The Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified patient-centeredness as crucial to quality health care. The IOM endorsed six patient-centeredness dimensions that stipulated that care must be: respectful to patients' values, preferences, and expressed needs; coordinated and integrated; provide information, communication, and education; ensure physical comfort; provide emotional support; and i...

On June 29, 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its seminal report, Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research. This report was not only the culmination of the IOM committee’s hard work but was also the fruit born of many people working behind the scenes to get the committee formed as part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affor...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) developed and implemented a three-month project entitled Priority Medical Screening of Kosovar Refugees in Macedonia, within the Humanitarian Evacuation Program (HEP) for Kosovar refugees from FR Yugoslavia, which was adopted in May 1999. The project was based on an agreement with the office of United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR...

While the large majority of parents in the U.S. vaccinate their children according to the recommended immunization schedule, some parents have refused or delayed vaccinating, often citing safety concerns. In response to public concern, the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) evaluated existing research regarding the safety of the recommended immunization schedule. The IOM concluded that although a...

OBJECTIVES Despite improvements in treatment modalities, large-for-gestational age (LGA) prevalence has remained between 30% and 40% among infants of mothers with type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (TIDM). Our objective was to estimate LGA prevalence and examine the association between gestational weight gain (GWG) and prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) with LGA among mothers with TIDM....