Delivering pediatric cardiac care with limited resources

Delivering pediatric HIV care in resource-limited settings: cost considerations in an expanded response.

If children are to be protected from HIV, the expansion of PMTCT programs must be complemented by increased provision of paediatric treatment. This is expensive, yet there are humanitarian, equity and children's rights arguments to justify the prioritization of treating HIV-infected children. In the context of limited budgets, inefficiencies cost lives, either through lower coverage or less eff...

Project selection with limited resources in data envelopment‎ ‎analysis‎

‎In this paper allocating a fixed resource for producing ‎finite projects in order to obtaining a desired level of‎ ‎efficiency will be discussed‎. ‎Note that it is assumed that a ‎vector of limited sources is at hand‎. ‎This vector of resources can‎ ‎be contained human resource‎, ‎budget‎, ‎equipment‎, ‎and facilities‎. ‎In ‎any firm there exist different suggestions from subunits for ‎running...

Day-care Plastic Surgery in Nigeria: Coping with Limited Resources

Tiling with limited resources

In the framework of perfect loop nests with uniform dependences, tiling has been extensively studied as a source-to-source program transformation. Little work has been devoted to the mapping and scheduling of the tiles on to physical processors. We present several new results in the context of limited computational resources, and assuming communication-computation overlap. In particular, under ...

Review Pediatric Cardiac Postoperative Care

The Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo, Medical School is a referral center for the treatment of congenital heart diseases of neonates and infants. In the recent years, the excellent surgical results obtained in our institution may be in part due to modern anesthetic care and to postoperative care based on well-structured protocols. The purpose of this article is to review unique as...