www.aafp.org / fpm ■ F A M I L Y P R A C T I C E M A N A G E M E N T ■ 39 IL LU ST R A TI O N B Y T IM L EE Our current health care system is plagued by long waiting times and delays in care. These waits and delays dissatisfy patients, medical staff and physicians, while increasing health care costs, reducing potential income and adversely affecting clinical outcomes. Patients experience long w...

It is known that during maintenance activities the system quality tends to degrade. This work presents an investigation on field carried out on two industrial projects with the aim of comparing the efficacy of the “full reuse” compared to the “iterative enhancement” maintenance process. The results of the work confirm the greater efficacy of the first process in slowing down the degradation of ...

The primary objective of this note is to reduce the false alarms in multivariate statistical process control (MSPC). The issue of false alarms is inherent within MSPC as a result of the definition of control limits. It has been observed that under normal operating conditions, the occurrence of “outof-control” data, i.e. false alarms, conforms to a Bernoulli distribution. Therefore this issue ca...

one of the most stressful tasks nursing staffs undertake is administering patient medications. no matter the type of system used—whether highly automated, with sophisticated computer software and bar-code scanners; largely paper based; or some hybrid of the two—administrating medications is a complicated process. nursing staff are under constant pressure to fulfill their medicine administration...