Balance Sheets: Tools to Inform Changes in Practice

Balance sheets: tools to inform changes in practice.

Balance Sheets—Tools for Translating Evidence into Practice Integrated care delivery systems have two inherent advantages over other health care organizations. First, we integrate the financing of care with care delivery. Second, our integrated care delivery systems position us to be able to collaboratively recommend and carry out changes in practice more effectively than other delivery systems...

Metabolic balance sheets.

toichiometric analysis has the same function in biochemistry as book-keeping has in business. Both deal with the inputs and outputs in flow systems, and studying the stoichiometric structure of a metabolic network might seem only slightly more exciting than a visit to an accountant's office. Times change, however, and progress in systems biology will involve paying closer attention to stoichiom...

Development and use of standardised data collection tools to support and inform musculoskeletal practice.

Clinicians all over the world are increasingly being faced with the need to demonstrate and account for the way in which clinical services are delivered and the quality of the delivery. It is also imperative to develop a comprehensive profile of who is accessing these services, who benefits from these services; how much these services cost in terms of clinicians time, the use of other healthcar...

Sufficient trial size to inform clinical practice.

Medical research has evolved conventions for choosing sample size in randomized clinical trials that rest on the theory of hypothesis testing. Bayesian statisticians have argued that trials should be designed to maximize subjective expected utility in settings of clinical interest. This perspective is compelling given a credible prior distribution on treatment response, but there is rarely cons...

Graph representation of balance sheets: from exogenous to endogenous money