This article describes the development of Potentially Preventable Complications (PPCs), a new method that uses a present on admission (POA) indicator to identify in-hospital complications among secondary diagnoses that arise after admission. Analyses that used PPCs to obtain risk-adjusted complication rates for California hospitals showed that (1) the POA indicator is essential for identifying ...

Based on rural informatization connotation and five essential elements that affect rural informatization assessment, which are development environment, information infrastructure, information resource, information service system and application of information technology in rural areas, This paper designs an indicator system for rural informatization level assessment. Through AHP method, it sets...

Introduction. The basic science exam is conducted, two times each year and, success in this exams is an essential condition for medical students to continue their education in medicine. This Descriptive research was designed to study the relationship between some variables, including age, sex, place of stay, conditional history and results of basic science exams. Methods. This study was imple...

soil detachment is known as an important process in soil erosion and its quantification is necessary to establish a basic understanding of erosion. this study was carried out to find the best flow erosivity indicator(s) for predicting detachment rate at low slopes. for this purpose, 12 experiments including 6 flow discharges (75, 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 ml/s) and 2 slope gradients (1.5 and 2...

OBJECTIVES Price is a key obstacle for consumer access to essential drugs, especially in developing countries. This study sought to compare the retail prices of essential drugs on the private market in Brazil with that of two international pricing standards. METHODS The retail price of all drugs on Brazil's Essential Drugs List, July 2000 edition, were compared to the retail price of the same...

Artificial life attempts to understand the essential general properties of living systems by synthesizing life-like behavior in software, hardware and biochemicals. As many of the essential abstract properties of living systems (e.g. autonomous adaptive and intelligent behavior) are also studied by cognitive science, artificial life and cognitive science have an essential overlap. This review h...

Many public health solutions to chronic diseases involve individual lifestyle choices: eating more healthfully, increasing physical activity, and quitting smoking. This approach neglects barriers in the community environment that make modifying unhealthy behaviors challenging. Addressing environmental barriers is an essential strategy to supporting behavioral changes. Changing community environ...

Software engineering is forecast to be among the fastest growing employment field in the next decades. The purpose of this investigation is two-fold: Firstly, empirical studies on the personality types of software professionals are reviewed. Secondly, this work provides an upto-date personality profile of software engineers according to the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. r 2002 Elsevier Science L...

This document list the publications authored by Serge Demeyer during the last five years (1997-2002). The list itself is divided into categories and within each category items are listed in reverse chronological order. Whenever possible a quality indicator is included: for journal papers the SCI impact factor as published in the 2000 JCR Science Edition, for conference papers the acceptance ratio.