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Open AccessHow individuals’ opinions influence society’s resistance to epidemics: an agent-based model approach
Protecting public health from infectious diseases often relies on the cooperation of citizens, especially when self-care interventions are the only viable tools for disease mitigation. Accordingly, social aspe...
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Smart Technologies in Healthcare: Overview of Human Factors and Infusion Pumps
Using advanced medical technologies is critical for and improving patient safety in clinical settings. Designing these automated technologies requires the rigorous application of human factors principles as ...
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Open AccessDemand sensing and digital tracking for maternal child health (MCH) in Uganda: a pilot study for ‘E+TRA health’
Thirteen essential maternal child health (MCH) commodities, identified by the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, could save the lives of more than 6 million women and children in ...
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Physical and information workflow map** of vancomycin therapeutic drug management: A single site case study revealing potential gaps in the process
Vancomycin is one of the most prescribed antibiotics in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) in US hospitals. However, a detailed understanding of workflow and information flow among various stakeholders rega...
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Open AccessAssessing the impact of Indiana legislation on opioid-based doctor shop** among Medicaid-enrolled pregnant women: a regression analysis
States have passed various legislative acts in an attempt to reduce opioid prescribing and corresponding doctor shop**, including prescription drug monitoring programs. This study seeks to determine the asso...
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Crowd-Ranking: a Markov-based method for ranking alternatives
Many ranking algorithms rank a set of alternatives based on their performance in a set of pairwise comparisons. In this study, a special scenario is observed in which the objective is to rate and rank a set of...
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Improving Patient Care Transitions at Rural and Urban Hospitals Through Risk Stratification
Rural and urban hospitals may face different challenges in care transition and care coordination. This chapter explored important care transition issues pertaining to rural and urban hospitals and demonstrated...
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Tracking the Progress of Wireless Infusion Pump Drug Library Updates– A Data-Driven Analysis of Pump Update Delays
Modern smart infusion pumps are wirelessly connected to a network server for easy data communications. The two-way communication allows uploading of infusion data and downloading of drug library updates. We ha...
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Robust Platelet Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations Under Uncertainty: a Coordinated Approach
Resource sharing, as a coordination mechanism, can mitigate disruptions in supply and changes in demand. It is particularly crucial for platelets because they have a short lifespan and need to be transferred a...
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Properties of sports ranking methods
Ideally, the ranking of sports teams should incorporate information (comprehensiveness) obtained from the outcome of a match, such as the strength of the opponent and schedule. In addition, the ranking method ...
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A column generation-based heuristic algorithm for an inventory routing problem with perishable goods
An inventory routing problem is a variation of the vehicle routing problem in which inventory and routing decisions are determined simultaneously over a given time horizon. The objective is to minimize the sum...
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Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach to Detecting a Passive RFID Tag in an Outpatient Clinic
This study is motivated by the observations on the data collected by radio frequency identification (RFID) readers in a pilot study, which was used to investigate the feasibility of implementing an RFID-based ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Improving Provider Decision Making with Enhanced Computerized Clinical Reminders
A computerized clinical reminder (CCR) system is a type of decision support tool to remind healthcare providers of recommended actions. In our prior study, we found a linear correlation between resolution time...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Candidate Rule Selection to Develop Intelligent Scheduling Aids for Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS)
In this paper we propose an intelligent, real-time, computer-based decision aid to effectively schedule jobs through a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). One way to develop such an aid is to use a simulation...
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Trace-driven knowledge acquisition (TDKA) for rule-based real time scheduling systems
Expert scheduling systems, which develop the schedule automatically on a real time basis, are able to respond to the changes of product demand in Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). While develo** an exper...
