The primary objective of this article is to explore the feasibility of the application of cost minimization analysis in a teaching hospital environment. The investigation is concerned with the development of cost per admission and cost per patient day models. These models are further used for determining the value of the length of stay that would minimize cost per patient day (projected length ...

This paper analyzes the probabilities of data packet loss for both an encrypted channel in self-synchronous cipher feedback mode and a nonencrypted channel, in the space data systems. Simulation results show reasonable agreement with analytical results. When channel bit error probability is lo-' and the total number of packets per frame is 3, the analytical model gives 0.39% packet loss while t...

Therapeutic drug monitoring is an important aspect of clinical chemistry for which no objective analytical goals yet exist. Based on fundamental pharmacokinetic theory, and the current consensus strategy for analytical goal-setting for precision based upon biological variation, a theoretical model allows derivation of the goal that: analytical CV less than or equal to 1/4 [(2T/t - 1)/(2T/t + 1)...

BACKGROUND Point-of-care (POC) glucose devices are widely used for insulin-dosage decision-making although such an application is not always permitted. In this study, we have evaluated a new generation of POC glucose device, the HemoCue(®) Glucose 201DMRT (201DMRT), for its suitability for (tight) glycemic control. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was performed according to the CLSI/STARD cri...

Total neutron cross-sections are usually measured by a transmission experiment. In this experiment the transmission through a sample is measured by taking the ratio of the background corrected counts measured with and without the sample in the beam. This procedure can be optimized to reduce the statistical error in the measured cross-section. The objective is to find the optimal sample thicknes...