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Implementation of Youth Empowerment Services (YES) juvenile justice diversion program: A first‐person account

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Santa Barbara County, the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program brought together several government and community‐based organizations, as well as a university‐based evaluation team, to provide pre‐adjudication diversion to youth ages 12 to 17.
Angela Pollard, Jill D. Sharkey, Erin Cross, Karyn Milligan, Michelle Kerwood, Ruby Celio, Andrea Fernandez‐Contreras, Esteban Medina‐Galvan   +7 more
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Association between patient safety culture, adverse events, and essential practices during childbirth in six Brazilian maternity hospitals

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This study examines whether hospitals with stronger patient safety culture more consistently follow essential birth practices and have fewer adverse outcomes for mothers and newborns and whether this evidence can guide maternity care priorities in patient safety policy.
Zenewton A. S. Gama, Cecília Olívia Paraguai de Oliveira Saraiva, Tatyana Maria Silva de Souza Rosendo, Rose L. Molina, Katherine E. A. Semrau, Danielle E. Tuller, Megan Marx Delaney, Christopher Westgard, Lauren Bobanski, Cláudia Maria Messias, Liana Carlan Padilha, Marise Reis de Freitas   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continuous infectious diseases coverage by merging with a hospitalist practice in a small community hospital system

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Access to infectious diseases physicians has been increasingly difficult, as many infectious diseases fellowship programs have unfilled positions. This has coincided with increasing numbers of internal medicine residents pursuing hospitalist medicine.
Michael S. Wang, Kristina Aleksoniene, Jason C. Tompkins, Richard W. Douce, John W. Froggatt 3rd, Mark S. Harrison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Throughput and Robustness Guaranteed Beam Tracking for mmWave Wireless Networks

, 2017
With the increasing demand of ultra-high-speed wireless communications and the existing low frequency band (e.g., sub-6GHz) becomes more and more crowded, millimeter-wave (mmWave) with large spectra available is considered as the most promising frequency
Fang, Xuming, Long, Yan, Zhou, Pei
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Things We Do for No Reason™: Withholding opioids among patients with acute pain and opioid use disorder

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Hospitalists care for patients with acute pain who have an opioid use disorder and require pain management. Hospitalists may withhold opioids for acute pain due to a variety of reasons. However, adequate pain management in patients with opioid use disorder, including with opioids, is the standard of care. This piece explains how to best manage
Anna‐Maria South, Susan L. Calcaterra, Marlene Martin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality improvement regarding handoff [PDF]

SAGE Open Medicine, 2017
Background and Objectives: Previous studies have emphasized the importance of effectual communication during patient handoffs. The objectives of this study were to (1) implement a resident-driven quality improvement project to improve handoffs by including key elements that are necessary for a safe and effective handoff.
Scott Studeny, Lauren Burley, Kelsey Cowen, Melanie Akers, Kelly O’Neill, Susan L Flesher   +5 more
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Soft Handoff and Uplink Capacity in a Two-Tier CDMA System

, 2005
This paper examines the effect of soft handoff on the uplink user capacity of a CDMA system consisting of a single macrocell in which a single hotspot microcell is embedded. The users of these two base stations operate over the same frequency band.
Greenstein, Larry J., Kishore, Shalinee, Poor, H. Vincent, Schwartz, Stuart C.   +3 more
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Applying the model for improvement to enhance recruitment and retention in a discharge intervention randomized controlled trial

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background High recruitment, intervention fidelity, and retention rates in clinical trials are necessary to ensure generalizable conclusions; quality improvement (QI) methods can be used to track and improve these rates. The Garnering Effective Telehealth to Help Optimize Multidisciplinary Team Engagement (GET2HOME) study is a randomized ...
Calise Curry, Skyler Patterson, Allison M. Wiedeman, Jasmine Parker, Elisabeth Peskin, Kerry Tepe, Dianna Bosse, Ramya Sri Lakshmi Adapa, Patrick W. Brady, Katherine Auger, Hadley Sauers‐Ford, the Garnering Effective Telehealth 2 Help Optimize Multidisciplinary Team Engagement (GET2HOME) Study Team   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lost to follow‐up

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Many physician civic engagement efforts have effectively and appropriately focused on improving physician voter registration and turnout. As we see improvement in these areas for physicians, it is critical not to lose sight of the importance of continued civic engagement, even between elections. Just as we would not discharge a patient without
Nicole Damari
wiley   +1 more source

A connection-level call admission control using genetic algorithm for MultiClass multimedia services in wireless networks [PDF]

, 2006
Call admission control in a wireless cell in a personal communication system (PCS) can be modeled as an M/M/C/C queuing system with m classes of users. Semi-Markov Decision Process (SMDP) can be used to optimize channel utilization with upper bounds on ...
Hong, X, Ni, Q, Xiao, Y
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