A central part of quality management involves tracking, identifying and managing changes that occur in a system or process; these are variations. When changes are planned and executed well, the ...

Children in communities with concentrated socioeconomic and structural disadvantage tend to have elevated rates of nonurgent visits to emergency departments (EDs). Using a spatial regression model of ...

In this review, we will first describe important factors influencing outcomes of surgical prostate cancer treatment. Although some of these are immutable (e.g., age, baseline function), others may ...

Personal history of atypical ductal hyperplasia and risk of multifocal breast cancer among newly diagnosed women: Implications for workup and management. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ...

In recent years, GWAS have greatly extended our knowledge of genetic loci associated with human disease risk and other phenotypes. The output of these studies is a series of SNPs ("GWAS SNPs") ...

Reliance on blunt quality metrics that do not reflect important dimensions of care; Limited access to data on what occurs during prenatal care; and Empirical challenges to evaluating the impact of ...

Analysis of spending differences among accountable care organizations (ACOs) may help identify cost savings opportunities. We examined the magnitude and sources of spending variation among ACOs over 4 ...

Variation is becoming more problematic as chips become increasingly heterogeneous and as they are used in new applications and different locations, sparking concerns about how to solve these issues ...

Multi-patterning schemes such as Self-Aligned Double Patterning (SADP) and Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning (SAQP) have been used to successfully increase semiconductor device density, circumventing ...