quality improvementObjective: Data and metrics play important roles in quality and process improvement efforts. For one specific process improvement method, Lean or Lean health care, data and metrics are central components, allowing users to identify areas that need improvement and to assess the ...
7926 Accesses 16 Altmetric Explore all metrics Abstract Purpose A high daily census may hinder the ability of physicians to deliver quality care in the intensive care unit (ICU). We sought to determine the relationship between intensivist-to-patient ratios and mortality among ICU patients. Methods...
Electronic health data is leveraged for many secondary purposes in healthcare, namely clinical decision making [1] and quality improvement [2,3]. Less research has explored how such data can support lifelong learning in healthcare, and more specifically, how it can support a medical practitioner’...
For more than a decade, there has been an intense debate about the ethics and legality of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in the United
2 First, although physicians are required to report on 6 quality measures, they may select any 6 measures from the list of 271 available MIPS measures.1 Unlike Hospital Compare, in which hospital performance is rated using a standard set of uniform metrics, such as mortality and readmissions, ...
Variation in stroke treatment metrics highlight a need for approaches to improve clinical processes. Training interventions can improve outcomes, but Australian physician trainees do not currently receive formal process-directed stroke training. Virtual reality (VR) stroke workflow training has proven accept...
2342 Accesses 1 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Background There is a dire need to expand the capacity of institutions in Africa to educate health care professionals. Family physicians, as skilled all-rounders at district level, are potentially well placed to contribute to an extended training ...
To evaluate OB-CIE system, a standard evaluation metrics of Recall, Precision and F-measure were used. Precision and recall are defined in terms of true positive (TP), false positive (FP) and false negative (FN) as shown in the following equations:Precision(P)=TPTP+FPRecall(R)=TPTP+FNF...
704 Accesses Explore all metrics Abstract For this commentary we explore the how and why of a looming responsibility shift to autonomous AI in medicine and the potential unintended consequence of reducing doctors’ sense of obligation to preserve ethics. In exploring this proposition, we address the...
1747 Accesses 2 Citations 1 Altmetric Explore all metrics Abstract Background Traditional methods for assessing prescriber knowledge can take several years to deliver results. This study was undertaken to obtain insights into the potential for using existing online communities to educate prescribers on ...