Th e search for interventions to reduce avoidable readmissions aft er an exacerbation of COPD has attracted substantial attention aft er the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services included COPD exacerbations in its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. 1 We read with great interest the study by Jennings et al 2 in a recent issue of CHEST (May 2015) and applaud the authors for conducting a ...

National surveys have revealed significant differences in patient outcomes following admission to hospital with acute exacerbation of COPD which are likely to be due to variations in care. We developed a care bundle, comprising a short list of evidence-based practices to be implemented prior to discharge for all patients admitted with this condition, based on a review of national guidelines and...

We are interested in those bundles on P that admits a resolution of the form 0 → C ⊗ E φ −→ C t ⊗ F → C → 0. In this paper we prove that, under suitable conditions on E, F , a generic bundle with this form is either simple, or canonically decomposable. As applications we provide an easy criterion for the stability of such bundles on P and we prove the stability of all Steiner exceptional bundle...

The development of reading skill and bases of developmental dyslexia were explored using connectionist models. Four issues were examined: the acquisition of phonological knowledge prior to reading, how this knowledge facilitates learning to read, phonological and nonphonological bases of dyslexia, and effects of literacy on phonological representation. Compared with simple feedforward networks,...