CMA adopts patient focus

CMA president-elect focuses on patient-centred care.

Focus: Cpoe and Patient Safety

While it is widely written that advanced clinical information systems can help healthcare organizations reduce adverse medical events and increase patient safety, Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) has proven that it truly does. ARMC chose Eclipsys’ Sunrise Clinical Manager for its ability to provide knowledge-based clinical decision support and its alert capabilities at the time of order ...

Pharmacometrics: Focus on the Patient

Pharmacometrics, whether using simple or complex models, has contributed to rational and efficient drug development,(1-3) with the main focus on early drug development.(4) This article describes why opportunities more directly focused on the patient abound in late stage development, illustrating the concept with three innovative examples which focus on benefits to patients, enabling drugs that ...

CMA package vignette

Moreover, model selection and evaluation of prediction rules proves to be highly difficult in this situation for several reasons. Firstly, the hazard of overfitting, which is common to all prediction problems, is increased by high dimensionality. Secondly, the usual evaluation scheme based on the splitting into learning and test data sets often applies only partially in the case of small sample...

Challenges for patient organisations: focus on Europe.

T he challenges facing patient organisations in Europe are unique only in part, but that part is both critical and daunting. The core problem involves what ‘‘Europe’’ is and is not. It is a collection of nation states. It is not a nation. Consequently, people are ‘‘Europeans’’ after they are Danish, German, French, or whatever their nationality, and their healthcare and policy is National (with...