Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support (CDS) are advocated health care information technologies for improving patient safety through reduction and prevention of medication errors. CPOE and DCS target specific errors in medication processes, particularly in prescribing and ordering. These are of particular importance in pediatrics, because children may be more vul...

In this paper, errors involved in extracting stress intensity factors from photoelastic fringe pattern, which were simulated for crack estimated. The estimated errors do not contain the errors associated with the optical apparatus, but only consist of the errors associated with discretization and extraction of data for SIF’s calculation to accomplish that. A series of fringe pattern were simula...

Many accounts of working memory posit specialized storage mechanisms for the maintenance of serial order. We explore an alternative, that maintenance is achieved through temporary activation in the language production architecture. Four experiments examined the extent to which the phonological similarity effect can be explained as a sublexical speech error. Phonologically similar nonword stimul...

The problem of medication errors in health care has been well documented [1], and reducing medication errors has become an important goal in health care organizations. High-technology approaches, such as computerized physician order entry, have achieved impressive results in improving the medication process [2]. However, improvements to medication safety may also be achieved through the impleme...

Application layer error resilience techniques in video communication are a relatively lightweight way of countering both isolated and burst error patterns. This paper systematically investigates their role. Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO) is shown to be an effective form of protection when errors are isolated but when burst errors are likely increasing the level of slicing is preferable. The...

BACKGROUND Medication errors have been reported to be a leading cause of death in hospitalized patients. In this study we focused on identifying and quantifying errors in the handwritten drug ordering and dispensing documentation processes which could possibly lead to adverse drug events. METHODS We studied 1,934 ordered agents (165 consecutive patients) retrospectively for medication documen...

In this paper, a discount model is proposed to coordinate pricing and ordering decisions in a two-echelon supply chain (SC). Demand is stochastic and price sensitive while lead times are fixed. Decentralized decision making where downstream decides on selling price and order size is investigated. Then, joint pricing and ordering decisions are extracted where both members act as a single entity ...

In this paper I investigate the problem of de…ning a multivariate dependence ordering. First, I provide a characterization of the concordance dependence ordering between multivariate random vectors with …xed margins. Central to the characterization is a multivariate generalization of a well-known bivariate elementary dependence increasing rearrangement. Second, to order multivariate random vect...

Ordering queries within a workload and ordering joins in a query are important problems in databases [1]. We give algorithms for the query sequencing problem that scale (small space) and are efficient (low runtime) as compared to earlier work [4]. The errors are small in practice and we are able to further reduce them using geometric repair. We provide a computational comparison of TSP solvers ...