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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IN A LABORATORY MEDICINE UNIT
No full textThe Healthcare Sector represents a particular system in which the rules of purchasing and resale do not
follow the functional paradigms characterizing commercial systems. Therefore, the rules used to deal with
the classic business management systems cannot be applied for managing purpose in the Healthcare sector
without apposite modifications. For this reason, new management techniques have been and are currently
investigated, such as the Discrete Event Simulation (DES) [1]. In this study, we applied the DES
technique through the software Simul8 [2] to quantitatively analyze the workflow of the Division of Laboratory
Medicine of the Hospital "San Paolo" in Naples, to define, in a clear and understandable way,
the information about the costs that this structure supports to carry out its activities
Exergame per lo sviluppo e l'affinamento delle abilità propriocettive e motorie nel soggetto disabile della vista .
No full textAutomated matching systems and correctional method for improved inspection data quality
Full text linkAdvances in computing technology, and data gathering tools provides a great opportunity in engineering area such as civil structure analysis domain to better understand its phenomenon. Our case study utilize these advances in pipeline structure in order to study the corrosion behavior that been one of the problem that leads to its failure. The availability of ILI data from MFL tools provides a better insight of corrosion process by using an efficient systems and data analysis method in order to extract important information regarding the condition of the pipeline. Our paper will discuss an implementation of automated matching systems and data correctional method that shown a promising result to improve the quality of data for future reliability assessment. The automated matching systems was evaluated using linear regression method for its sensitivity analysis whereby a modified corrosion rate method was used along with linear prediction method to verify the accuracy of the corrected data. Issues and advantage gain from this research is threefold; timeliness, accuracy, and consistencies in data sampling. This is a preliminary work towards a reliable pipeline assessment method
Declarative Process Mining in Healthcare
Full text linkClinical guidelines aim at improving the quality of care processes based on evidence-based insights. However, there may be good reasons to deviate from such guidelines or the guidelines may provide insufficient support as they are not tailored towards a particular setting (e.g., hospital policy or patient group characteristics). Therefore, we propose an approach to mediate between event data reflecting the clinical reality and clinical guidelines describing best-practices in medicine. Concretely, we repair and enrich declarative process models based on event logs. Initial models based on clinical guidelines are improved by observing the real process. Declarative models are used as they allow for more flexibility. Process mining techniques are used to check conformance, analyze deviations, and enrich models with conformance-related diagnostics. The approach has been applied in the urology department of the Isala hospital in the Netherlands. The results demonstrate that the approach is feasible and that our toolset based on ProM and Declare is indeed able to provide valuable insights related to process conformance. Keywords: Healthcare Processes, Process Mining, Declarative Modeling Language
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Strumenti per la modellazione e l'analisi dei processi sanitari
No full textLa crescente attenzione verso la qualità delle cure, congiuntamente all'aumento della spesa sanitaria a cui si assiste al giorno d'oggi nello scenario nazionale ed internazionale, induce ogni giorno di più le organizzazioni sanitarie a gestire i processi clinico/terapeutici in modo efficace ed efficiente. Lo studio quantitativo dei flussi di lavoro emerge pertanto come strumento utile per razionalizzare le attività svolte nei diversi settori sanitari. Il presente lavoro di Tesi descrive le tecniche principali di workflow management e le relative applicazioni nel contesto sanitario
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