Considering RFID: Benefits, limitations, and best practices

Palliative care: benefits, barriers, and best practices.

Palliative care improves the quality of life for patients with a life-threatening illness and for their families. It aims to relieve suffering by identifying, assessing, and treating pain and other physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems. Palliative care can be provided whether an illness is potentially curable, chronic, or life-threatening; is appropriate for patients with noncancer dia...

Crowdsourced network measurements: Benefits and best practices

Network measurements are of high importance both for the operation of networks and for the design and evaluation of new management mechanisms. Therefore, several approaches exist for running network measurements, ranging from analyzing live traffic traces from campus or Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks to performing active measurements on distributed testbeds, e.g., PlanetLab, or involv...

Promoting Open Scholarship in Africa: Benefits and Best Library Practices

Best Practices Guidelines on Radiology Benefits Management Programs

The principles described in this white paper apply to many provider-payor business and professional relationships. The development of this document is necessitated by business practices by some payors, radiology benefits management companies (RBMs), and providers that are arguably creating excessively restrictive and burdensome obstacles to the delivery of patient care. The purpose of this pape...

Pathogen reduction co-benefits of nutrient best management practices

BACKGROUND Many of the practices currently underway to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment loads entering the Chesapeake Bay have also been observed to support reduction of disease-causing pathogen loadings. We quantify how implementation of these practices, proposed to meet the nutrient and sediment caps prescribed by the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), could reduce pathogen loadings an...