practical examples of the application of decision analysis in healthcare

... rotation of the foot (external/internal rotation) in respect to the walking direction and is defined as the angle formed with the line of progression and the segment connecting the marker on the V ... sole of the foot [24] in young obese patients during standing and walking, revealed a relevant increase in the foot surface in contact with the ground This would predispose to the development of ... standing up, bending, walking and running [1,2] The analysis of gait pattern of obese children shows a more flat-footed weight acceptance period in stance phase and greater out-toeing of the foot...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... [25,26] The Optimising Analysis of Stroke Trials (OAST) Collaboration has shown the benefit of ordinal analysis in the field of stroke [27] Other examples of ordinal outcome scales can be found in ... common is the practice of dichotomising ordinal outcome measures In the field of stroke research, the modified Rankin Scale and the Barthel Index are often used as primary efficacy endpoints - and ... analysis , instead of emphasizing the formal assumptions of this model Both approaches to ordinal outcome analysis that were investigated in the present study resulted in substantial power increase Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... find out if there really exists a superior rule in the entire universe of trading rules In this thesis, I will first find out the best performing rule of each technical indicator class in an insample ... another decline sets in This is the right shoulder Finally, a decrease of the stock price in this third recession down through a line, called the neckline, drawn across the bottoms of the declines ... implemented The blue line is the price series of the Straits Times Index The area shaded in green indicates a long position; the area shaded in red indicates a short 22 position and the area in white...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... Tra Linh Hydro PDD – Case for CDM • • • • • • Increases IRR of project Increases access to international funding Reduces risks of project Incentivises investors to come into sector Results in local ... reduction during the crediting period of 10 years 169,846 Total number of crediting years © ESD 2006 Annual estimation of emission reductions, tCO2 eq 10 Current Vietnam CDM: Tra Linh Hydro PDD ... Dong Oil Field – Baseline • Baseline is simple: – Base case is ‘business as usual’, i.e gas flaring – Project is alternative, i.e gas recovery instead of flaring (reduction in CO2) – Key lesson...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2016, 23:54

... self-organizing map contains  units, like in the previous case The rest of the training parameters are the same as before The same parameters are used with the map as with the cylinder The trained ... useful for the insertion of other shapes Since the size of the SOMs is the same, the state representation is not modified at all The evolution of the mean insertion time during 8000 learning trials ... Evolution of the probability of successful insertion during the training process of 4000 consecutive trials is shown The timeout is set to 20 s in each trial The smoothed curve was obtained by filtering...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... brought into the colony to boost breeding production Most of the albino laboratory rats used in the U.S are linked to the colony of the Wistar Institute In previous discussion, the role of Donaldson ... population of about 6000 rats The commercial rights to the sale of the Wistar Rat were sold in 1960 From the beginning, the Wistar Institute maintained a random bred, heterogeneous colony Therefore, there ... variability in the commercial colony maintained by the Institute It is unknown whether albino lines other than those provided by Donaldson were introduced into the Wistar Colony According to Lindsey,2...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:37

... self-organizing map contains  units, like in the previous case The rest of the training parameters are the same as before The same parameters are used with the map as with the cylinder The trained ... useful for the insertion of other shapes Since the size of the SOMs is the same, the state representation is not modified at all The evolution of the mean insertion time during 8000 learning trials ... Evolution of the probability of successful insertion during the training process of 4000 consecutive trials is shown The timeout is set to 20 s in each trial The smoothed curve was obtained by filtering...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

... fx the new number of trees per plot Using the same procedure as for model 2°, we obtained the following values for the new variance components in terms of those of the original full model: The ... locations in Poland, in Kornik and in Goldap, in 1976 using 2+2 seedlings raised in a nursery in Kornik The experiment includes half-sib progenies from 12 provenances from the North Eastern range of the ... the ) FB (σ The The number of trees per plot (x) is the unit of measurement and does not enter into the degrees of freedom Since the analysis is performed on the basis of plot means (sums...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... revenue increased, and both initial and return visits increased They compared similar measures collected during the same study period from an internal medicine outpatient clinic The inclusion of the ... question the nature of its inferences, by presenting the intended organizational level deployment of Lean, the article stands as an interesting contrast to narrower applications in the reviewed ... improvements in care and ever increasing capacity for continuing improvement Improving evaluation and understanding of the implementation and outcomes of such changes are essential to sustaining ongoing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... revenue increased, and both initial and return visits increased They compared similar measures collected during the same study period from an internal medicine outpatient clinic The inclusion of the ... question the nature of its inferences, by presenting the intended organizational level deployment of Lean, the article stands as an interesting contrast to narrower applications in the reviewed ... improvements in care and ever increasing capacity for continuing improvement Improving evaluation and understanding of the implementation and outcomes of such changes are essential to sustaining ongoing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... effectiveness in the first VRA is followed by 3-4 VRAs over the lifetime of a project Scores should “be a reflection of the previous discussions”, with the same informants Analysis of practice in Viet ... data Ranking can be applied to compare the properties of different indicators (variables) at a certain time, and the property of single indicators (variables) at different moments • Ranking data ... driver in itself Owners of land or housing less inclined to migrate, more likely to return Early Warning systems are in place in rural areas, and aid after disasters Living conditions in resettlement...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:23

... how decision- makers influenced project decisions The third level of analysis is in terms of decision factors Here the criteria of decisions are examined, i.e concerns and preferences of decision- makers, ... However, there is always the danger of the more powerful decision- makers gaining precedence, as Etzioni argued.35 The study accepts Lindblom’s model only in terms of decisions being an ongoing, step-by-step ... understanding the processes involved in AWARE’s decisions within an individual project According to his model, decision- makers select a course of action by bargaining among themselves and their stakeholders...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... have been cutting costs in the business since the onset of the crisis A majority of the opportunistic Þrms say that they will be receptive to the idea of renewed investing over the coming year, however—more ... understanding between the two as strong CFOs offer a rosier picture of the relationship than CIOs, but few in either group report a decline in the strength of their relationships Other key Þndings of the ... surveyed say that they will be “on the business offensive” in the coming year, looking for © The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2009 Staying the course? Technology decision- making in turbulent...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:13

... based on analysis of risk The thoroughness of the analysis determines the “quality” of the decisions High quality decisions are not the best decisions in hindsight They are the best decisions in foresight ... occur in each of the four steps The paper concludes with an example of how methodical decision analysis leads to an understanding of the degree of risk in a decision Defining Quality Every decision ... understanding of what inputs (biased or otherwise) have gone into the reasoning process For a brief introduction to critical thinking, see the white paper, The Role of Critical Thinking in Effective Decision...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 17:15

... given the decisions of consumers in periods 1–3 The sequence of decision is as follows First, both firms decide on the packaging decision In other words, they decide whether they want to offer ... affect the decision of consumers in the region Furthermore, if all consumers are purchasing in the region , then these consumers must be purchasing two large packages The introduction of small ... prevalent In this case, the introduction of small packages is likely to bring more consumers into the market Note that for > , the consumers in the middle of the Hotelling line not purchase the product...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... pointing the time of main interventions that lead to the increase, or decrease, of the value of the indicator (Zeribi and Franco 2010) Figure shows the run chart used to monitor progress in institutionalizing ... aspects into pre-service training of health workers and in- service training of current staff  Incorporate quality indicators into routine monitoring and reporting systems; add quality monitoring ... institutionalizing the use of partograph in selected health facilities in Afghanistan It includes the proportion of completed partographs over time as well as annotations indicating the timing of introducing...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:25

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... Qualitative analysis of the performance matrix The performance matrix may be the final product of the analysis, allowing the decision maker to qualitatively rank the options Such intuitive processing of ... number of ways of aggregating the data on individual criteria to provide indicators of the overall performance of options This section outlines the main principles of MCDA, heavily drawing on ... Because of steep increases in health interventions costs in western countries in the 1980's, economists proposed the use of cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions The underlying notion...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... before the intervention The students were told that the result of the test was counted in their final learning result; therefore, all the students did the test to the best of their ability The survey ... utilized in order to gain the most valid and reliable information The use of the instrument in the data collection process was primarily illustrated in the following timeline Timeline Pre- intervention ... During the decoding process, understanding the hierarchal, linguistic structures of the language promises reading comprehension The focus is never the meaning of the whole text, but detailed linguistic...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:05