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This implementer's guide provides a step-by-step roadmap on planning, implementing and monitoring a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) program for driving performance improvement. Chapters and appendixes cover the following topics: Identifying Stakeholders and Goals Cataloging Available Information Systems Selecting and Specifying CDS Interventions Specifying and Validating the Details, and Building the Interventions Putting Interventions into Action Measuring Results and Refining the Program Standards Pertinent to CDS Medico-legal Considerations with CDS Pilot Site Selection Additional Statistics and Reports for Evaluating Alerts Packed full of practical guidance, Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer's Guide contains real world examples, worksheets, rich links to supportive materials, plus a robust glossary of terms and acronyms. 2005. Sponsored in part by a grant from Thomson Micromedex.
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Presents a unified mathematical framework for a wide range of problems in estimation and control.
Disaster management is a process or strategy that is implemented when any type of catastrophic event takes place. The process may be initiated when anything threatens to disrupt normal operations or puts the lives of human beings at risk. Governments on all levels as well as many businesses create some sort of disaster plan that make it possible to overcome the catastrophe and return to normal function as quickly as possible. Response to natural disasters (e.g., floods, earthquakes) or technological disaster (e.g., nuclear, chemical) is an extreme complex process that involves severe time pressure, various uncertainties, high non-linearity and many stakeholders. Disaster management often req...
Schools, colleges, and universities are homogenizing systems that are almost exclusively focused on imposing a pre-ordered curricula through exams and grades or tight research lines. In the process, they are killing passion, creativity, and individuals' potential and skills. Ultimately, schools and academia make up a system of oppression that serves a collective machinery but suffocates individual growth. In contrast, a free-progress-education (FPE) paradigm asserts that the best way of learning, acquiring knowledge, and doing research comes through a process of free self-directed learning, and a progress of self-unfoldment and self-discovery, that must be guided from within. In schools, col...
This volume offers a series of papers and essays as a guide to higher education advisors and administrators in the field of education abroad. Papers are organized into three sections which address education abroad in general, advising, and program development and evaluation. The following papers are included: "Being a Professional in the Field of Education Abroad" (Archer Brown and David Larsen); "The Education-Abroad Office in Its Campus Context" (Paul DeYoung and Paul Primak); "Academic Credit" (Eleanor Krawutschke and Kathleen Sideli); "Financial Aid" (Nancy Stubbs); "The Office Library and Resource Materials" (Catherine Gamon and Heidi Soneson); "Computerizing Operations" (James Gehlhar ...
Health Informatics (HI) focuses on the application of Information Technology (IT) to the field of medicine to improve individual and population healthcare delivery, education and research. This extensively updated fifth edition reflects the current knowledge in Health Informatics and provides learning objectives, key points, case studies and references.