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Embedding a primary care provider in sickle cell teams improves sickle cell care. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Della-Moretta S   +6 more
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Warranty and discrete preventive maintenance

open access: yesReliability Engineering and System Safety, 2004
Preventive maintenance actions over the warranty period have an impact on the warranty servicing cost to the manufacturer and the cost to the buyer of fixing failures over the life of the product after the warranty expires.
D N P Murthy
exaly   +2 more sources

Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies

Operations Research, 1960
Two types of preventive maintenance policies are considered. A policy is defined to be optimum if it maximizes “limiting efficiency,” i.e., fractional amount of up-time over long intervals. Elementary renewal theory is used to obtain optimum policies. The optimum policies are determined, in each case, as unique solutions of certain integral equations ...
Barlow, Richard, Hunter, Larry
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Tools for preventive software maintenance

Proceedings. Conference on Software Maintenance - 1989, 2003
Tools for preventive maintenance of software which is written following the object-oriented paradigm are discussed. A set of guidelines, called the Law of Demeter is described, and its implications for software maintenance are discussed (K.J. Lieberherr, I. Holland, 1989).
Karl J. Lieberherr, Ian M. Holland
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Two Criteria for Preventive Maintenance

IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 1978
The purposes of this paper are to model the effects of imperfect maintenance, and from the model to derive conditions under which preventive maintenance is beneficial. The criteria are derived via: 1) maximization of the steady state availability and 2) minimization of the s-expected cost per unit time over an infinite time span when the maintenance ...
Chan, P. K W, Downs, T.
openaire   +4 more sources

Preventive Maintenance

Hospital progress, 1998
Izzet Sahin, Hakan Polatoglu
openaire   +3 more sources

HEALTH MAINTENANCE AND PREVENTION IN THE ELDERLY

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1995
This article summarizes recommendations and current controversies to help guide primary care providers when caring for the elderly. Health maintenance and preventive care regimens are discussed within the context of a comprehensive evaluation of the particular patient.
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