The intersection of deteriorating patients, Early Warning Scores, Rapid Response Teams and new monitoring technology These days, hospitals are treating increasingly complex patients with multiple co-morbidities. At any given time some of these patients may be rapidly deteriorating, for a variety of reasons. Every hospital must have a strategy to identify such patients, and be capable of providi...

Seasonal sedimentation, measured with the aid of artificial marker horizons, was markedly different in deteriorating as compared with stable marshes in the Mississippi River deltaic plain. Deteriorating marshes receive most sediment during storm events, whereas stable marshes receive substantial amounts of sediments during the spring river flood. The deteriorating marshes are accreting at a fas...

This paper studies the economic-order-quantity model (EOQ) for deteriorating items in two cases (with and without shortages) to evaluate how vendor managed inventory (VMI) affects supply chain. We consider two-level supply chain (single supplier and a single retailer) with one instantaneous deteriorating item. A numerical example and sensitivity analysis are provided to illustrate the effect of...