OBJECTIVE To evaluate the data quality of ventilator settings recorded by respiratory therapists using a computer charting application and assess the impact of incorrect data on computerized ventilator management protocols. DESIGN An analysis of 29,054 charting events gathered over 12 months from 678 ventilated patients (1,736 ventilator days) in four intensive care units at a tertiary care hos...

how can patient learn to control their diabetes? the author believes that this important work happen by right training of reporting. since accurate reporting in the nursing profession is a skill, have you ever though that you teach this skill to their patients?   reporting about people with chronic disease especially diabetes is beneficial for the following reasons: determination dose of insuli...

Financial charting software is widely used in share, commodity and foreign currency exchange markets to visualize and analyze price movements. Its quality is critical because incorrect outputs may lead to wrong analysis and trading decisions, and consequently substantial financial losses. Human visual judgment is often required to test financial charting software because of the graphical comple...

1. Statistical principles, quality system standards, six sigma, service 2. Charts, graphs, sampled data as foundational statistical tools 3. Attribute charting systems 4. The P chart steps for constructing attribute data 5. Attributes, checklists and charting 6. SPC, X-bar and R, variable charting 7. Cp and Cpk definitions and capability 8. Quality characteristic foundations, changing relations...

OBJECTIVE Charting systems with decision support have been developed to assist with medication charting, but many of the features of these programs are not properly used in their clinical application. An analysis of medication error reports at LDS Hospital revealed the occurrence of errors that should have been detected and prevented by decision support features if real-time entry at the bedsid...

Charting point-of-care results is generally not performed by the laboratory point-of-care team; however, the oversight of this activity remains the responsibility of the point-of-care program. Although point-of-care management and interfacing are not new, there remain a significant number of hospitals not yet utilizing automated electronic interfaces for charting of results to tests performed o...

Following Verde-Star, Linear Algebra Appl. 627 (2021), we label families of orthogonal polynomials in the $q$-Askey scheme together with their $q$-hypergeometric representations by three sequences $x_k, h_k, g_k$ Laurent $q^k$, two degree 1 and one 2, satisfying certain constraints. This gives rise to a precise classification parametrization these limit transitions. is displayed graphical schem...