Can simulation improve ECMO care?

Can health care teams improve primary care practice?

In health care settings, individuals from different disciplines come together to care for patients. Although these groups of health care personnel are generally called teams, they need to earn true team status by demonstrating teamwork. Developing health care teams requires attention to 2 central questions: who is on the team and how do team members work together? This article chiefly focuses o...

Can Large Eddy Simulation Techniques Improve Mesoscale Rich Ocean Models?

Large-eddy simulations (LES) differ from other fluid flow computations in that the largest eddies are explicitly resolved and the smaller eddies are modeled (as engineers call it) or parameterized (as oceanographers call it). Modeling the ocean and atmosphere inspired the first large-eddy simulations, but true large-eddy simulations of the ocean and atmosphere are surprisingly rare. Ocean model...

Can Wavelet Denoising Improve Motor Unit Potential Template Estimation?

Background: Electromyographic (EMG) signals obtained from a contracted muscle contain valuable information on its activity and health status. Much of this information lies in motor unit potentials (MUPs) of its motor units (MUs), collected during the muscle contraction. Hence, accurate estimation of a MUP template for each MU is crucial. Objective: To investigate the possibility of improv...

Editorial: can we improve care for patients with dementia?

Can pay for performance improve the quality of primary care?

For many conditions and in many countries, medical care falls short of what should be provided. Although high quality care depends crucially on the professionalism of doctors, this has not proved sufficient to ensure universal high quality care, and as a consequence payers have looked towards incentives as one way of further improving quality. In 2004 the UK National Health Service introduced t...