... translated in a full knowledge of the building graph and a calculation of the shortest paths by using Dijkstra’s algorithm An evacuee becomes aware of a hazardous area when it reaches a location ... hazard A low value indicates that the system has succeeded in directing the evacuees along safe paths, avoiding the hazardous locations • Percentage of fatally injured evacuees This is a straightforward ... will take into account This research was undertaken as part of the ALADDIN (Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks) project and is jointly funded by a BAE Systems...
... Multiobjective Decision Analysis with Spreadsheets Duxbury Press, Belmont, CA Kleinmuntz, C.E., Kleinmuntz, D.N., 1999 A strategic approach to allocating capital in healthcare organizations Healthcare Financial ... multicriteria value analysis and decision conferencing: A case study International Transactions in Operational Research, 13(4), 279-297 Bana e Costa, C .A. , Lourenço, J.C., Soares, J.O., 2007 An interval ... supportsystemfor portfolio robustness evaluation that integrates two main architectural components: a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) component and a portfolio decision analysis (PDA) component...
... from direct observation of participants Quantitative data Quantitative data were analysed using frequency analysis of demographic questions, task accuracy, and frequency and classes of problems ... Computerized ClinicalDecisionSupport Systems on Practitioner Performance and Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review JAMA 2005, 293:1223-38 21 Kawamoto K, Houlihan CA, Balas EA, Lobach DF: Improving clinical ... clinical decision- supportsystem in practice: A qualitative analysis of influencing attitudes and characteristics among general practitioners Informatics for Health & Social Care 2008, 33(1):39-54...
... physicians and patients This benefit may include an increased awareness for patients about osteoporosis and its associated risks, the availability of relevant information about what they can about ... clinic days Two researchers will document the patient registration process (particularly how patients are moved from the waiting area to the examination room) and estimate the average time that patients ... diseases [40] and increase the awareness and the need for patient self -care to support chronic disease management [40,41] As a result, there is a shift toward a new patient-physician relationship...
... medical domain FEATURES EXTRACTION AND CASE FORMULATION Extracting appropriate features is of great importance in performing accurate classification in a computer-aided system whereas in manual ... features are extracted automatically from the fifteen minutes (1800 samples) FT measurements signal data Then a new case is formulated with 19 features as a total keeping in a vector above 12 features ... the maximum feature value fora feature f between the whole case base and a query case C and Min retrieves the minimum feature value fora feature f between the whole case base and a query case...
... and plan fora strategy in educational management of organizations in Vietnam and Asia [3] However, there are no DSS applications to apply a real case in the domain of an evaluation and a strategic ... hierarchy Level – Alternatives: Choosing the best choice decision among alternatives for an evaluation model / a strategic university planning DSS model application for an evaluation and a strategy ... applied Web-based DSS application for an evaluation and a strategic planning of educational management in Vietnam This study has contributed in effective evaluation for educational management using...
... treatment Results Seventeen patients with either locally advanced primary (n = 3) or metastatic (n = 14) breastcancer had “withdrawal” treatment as 2nd to 10th line of treatment Patient and ... 3d&tabid=2341] doi:10.1186/1477-7819-9-101 Cite this article as: Agrawal et al.: Clinical relevance of “withdrawal therapy” as a form of hormonal manipulation forbreastcancer World Journal of ... post-menopausal advanced breastcancer patients heavily pre-treated with endocrine agents World J Surg Oncol 2006, 4:44 Masamura S, Santner SJ, Heitjan DF, Santen RJ: Estrogen deprivation causes estradiol...
... appropriate to apply ATHENA-OT issued a warning when the patient had cancer and indicated that system recommendations may not be appropriate if the patient's pain was caused by the cancer Determination ... differentiating between accurate information and information that was of high clinical priority There was disagreement among the expert team and CPG authors about whether all accurate information ... involved examination of ATHENA-OT recommendations for real patient cases with recent primarycare visits selected from the VA Palo Alto's EMR ATHENA-OT generated definitions and recommendations that...
... publication bias was not assessed We confirmed our abstractions with primary authors We collaborated with clinical decision- makers in extracting and analyzing data, and formulating and disseminating ... technical or material support JP acquired data; drafted the manuscript; and provided administrative, technical, or material support LWK and TN acquired data and drafted the manuscript NLW acquired, ... influenza vaccination for children and adolescents with asthma in primarycare Online reminders for tetanus, hepatitis, pneumococcal, measles, and influenza vaccinations for adults in primary care...
... in ambulatory care Adherence to recommendations for international normalised ratio monitoring in warfarin users, anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation, b-blocker following myocardial infarction ... evaluated on five dimensions of quality–including concealment of allocation, appropriate unit of allocation, appropriate adjustment for baseline differences, adequate follow- up, and appropriate ... Presented information for treatment decisions about warfarin or aspirin therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation in primarycare 2/2/109* Difference in decision conflict scale score immediately...
... manuscript; and provided statistical analysis as well as administrative, technical, or material support LWK and TN acquired data and drafted the manuscript NLW acquired, analyzed, and interpreted data; ... meta-analysis to assess the average effect size Where studies did not report data in a suitable form for pooling, authors were contacted for additional information, and appropriate data were estimated [40] ... with advice from a statistician Data were combined as risk ratios for dichotomous data (Mantel-Haenszel method) or mean differences for continuous data (inverse variance method) using a random-effects...
... performance and action Kaplan and Norton (1992) introduced The balanced scorecard concept as a strategic performance management system Kaplan and Norton (1996) define balanced scorecard concept as ... long-term capabilities and customer relationships were not critical for success These financial measures are inadequate, however, for guiding and evaluating the journey that information age companies ... vision to action Kaplan and Norton (1996) state that ‘‘the balanced scorecard translates an organization’s mission, vision and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures and provides...
... research theme [7,8] Patient-centred care is defined as a 'collaboration between informed, respected patients and their families and a coordinated healthcare team to achieve quality healthcare' ... consultation Conceptual framework for shared decision making during the surgical consultation clinical database that prospectively follow all colorectal cancer patients by which patients can be identified ... Khangura S, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Rovner DR: Do patient decision aids meet effectiveness criteria of the international patient decision aid standards collaboration? A systematic review and meta-analysis...
... research theme [7,8] Patient-centred care is defined as a 'collaboration between informed, respected patients and their families and a coordinated healthcare team to achieve quality healthcare' ... consultation Conceptual framework for shared decision making during the surgical consultation clinical database that prospectively follow all colorectal cancer patients by which patients can be identified ... Khangura S, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Rovner DR: Do patient decision aids meet effectiveness criteria of the international patient decision aid standards collaboration? A systematic review and meta-analysis...
... 6) a standard that demonstrates progress towards corporate and organizational environmental objectives The family of BREEAM includes BREEAM Courts, BREEAM Data Centres, BREEAM Education, BREEAM ... Sustainable building rating systems come in a variety of shapes and sizes They are local, regional, national and international Three of the most popular and widely accepted international systems ... change has become the inevitable result of our past actions As a result of global warming, the global average sea level has risen at an average rate of 1.8 mm/year since 1960 and at 3.1 mm/year since...
... including: (1) gathering information; (2) generating, contemplating; and (3) evaluating alternative courses of action, as well as processes of implementation and evaluation that should followadecision ... system, although it has strengths in some functions, may have limitations in others Therefore, asystem that integrates knowledge with database management systems, graphics, qualitative and quantitative ... Salient feature of information No Information No Information Major class of methods Dominance Maxi-min Maxi-max Conjunctive Method Standard Level MADM Information on the Attributes Ordinal Cardinal...
... decision- making The PROforma system can maintain and manage clinical procedures and make clinical decisions at the point of care PROforma models guidelines as a set of tasks and data items Task ... that can be easily reused and integrated as a component in another system Unfortunately medical informatics is far behind when it comes to knowledge integration, as it is relatively immature At ... obsolete Therefore a bigger challenge forclinicaldecisionsupportsystem would be to find a way through which clinical knowledge can automatically be evaluated and updated in the background based on...
... Determination of Decision Matrix Determination of weightage value using Satty's scale Normalization of decision matrix by appropriate formula Calculation of the weighted normalized matrix by ... Lakshmi Narayanan, and Naagarazan (1999) worked on mathematical modeling for EDM of aluminum–silicon carbide metal matrix composite The earlier researchers have also employed various tools and ... selection: an application of MOORA and MOOSRA Asis Sarkara,b, S.C Panjab, Dibyendu Dasb* and Bijon Sarkarc a Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Agartala, P.O: T.E.C.,...
... rotation (45 years) and thinnings that are designed so as to maintain a constant and relatively low basal area after each cycle (15 m3 ha−1 ) The rotation of scenario is fixed to 60 years As for ... Silvicultural decisionsupportsystemfor larch Table I Parameters of the Duplat and Tran-Ha model IV used to describe the dominant height of larch Japanese larch European larch Hybrid larch a = 7.500786 ... scenario si is at least as good as scenario sk for the indicator Based on the concordance indices and the weight W j associated to each indicator, a global concordance index, Cik , is calculated:...