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Assessing the Early Aberration Reporting System's Ability to Locally Detect the 2009 Influenza Pandemic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Statistics, Politics, and Policy, 2, issue 1, article 1.The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/2151-7509.1018The Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) is used by some local health departments (LHDs) to monitor ...
Barnes, Susan   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Measuring variations in healthcare data using run charts and statistical process control charts: a survey of general physicians attending the quality improvement workshop

open access: yesInternal Medicine Journal, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 308-312, February 2025.
ABSTRACT General physicians as system leaders play a significant role in quality improvement (QI) initiatives within respective health services. However, there are very few formal QI training programmes available for general physicians in Australia. This survey described the experiences of attendees at the 2024 Internal Medicine Society of Australia ...
Ar Kar Aung   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Airborne bacterial dispersal during and after dressing and bed changes on burns patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It is acknowledged that activities such as dressing changes and bed sheet changes are high-risk events; creating surges in levels of airborne bacteria. Burns patients are particularly high dispersers of pathogens; due to their large, often contaminated ...
Anderson, John G.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

General adapted‐threshold monitoring in discrete environments and rules for imbalanced classes

open access: yesStatistica Neerlandica, Volume 79, Issue 1, February 2025.
Having in mind applications in statistics and machine learning such as individualized care monitoring, or watermark detection in large language models, we consider the following general setting: When monitoring a sequence of observations, Xt, there may be additional information, Zt, on the environment which should be used to design the monitoring ...
Ansgar Steland   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Simulation Study Of The Impact Of Forecast Recovery For Control Charts Applied To ARMA Processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Forecast-based schemes are often used to monitor autocorrelated processes, but the resulting forecast recovery has a significant effect on the performance of control charts.
Adams, B. Michael   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

A control chart for monitoring image processes based on convolutional neural networks

open access: yesStatistica Neerlandica, Volume 79, Issue 1, February 2025.
In this paper, the problem of monitoring image processes with spatially correlated pixels over time is considered. An exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart for monitoring such processes based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed.
Yarema Okhrin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Service improvement in social work and health. An e-guide for practitioners and managers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This book aims to provide practitioners and managers working within social care and health environments with the knowledge to be able to ask precise questions of a potential service improvement ...
Keen, Steven, Rutter, Lynne
core  

Two-Stage Short-Run (X, MR) Control Charts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article is the first in a series of two articles that applies two-stage short-run control charting to (X, MR) charts. Theory is developed and then used to derive the control chart factor equations.
Case, Kenneth E., Elam, Matthew E.
core   +2 more sources

Implementing Patient Health Questionnaire Depression Screening in Inflammatory Arthritis Clinic: Insights From a Quality Improvement Project at a Tertiary Rheumatology Center

open access: yesACR Open Rheumatology, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2025.
Objective This quality improvement project evaluates the feasibility and sustainability of adopting the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) depression screening tool into routine clinical care at a rheumatology fellows’ inflammatory arthritis (IA) clinic at a large tertiary center. The aim was to achieve 50% compliance in documentation of PHQ after five
Jeong Min Yu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modern Approaches to Risk Management and Their Use in Customs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the article the analysis of experience and best practices of Europe and the world regarding the methods and tools of risk management in customs affairs.
Afanasieva, Vita   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

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