How Significant is a Boxplot Outlier?

Detecting Significant Alarms using Outlier Detection Algorithms

Although alarms in plants are designed to notify any anomaly or faults in order to prevent accidents or to improve process, it is very difficult for the operators to identify meaningful alarms, since there are large volumes of false and nuisance alarms. Outlier detection algorithms are used to identify anomaly in data, and thus they can be used to suggest abnormal alarms. In this research, we a...

How Effective is Clinical Supervision in Nursing? A Systematic Review

Background: Clinical supervision is a process of learning and professional support for nurses in developing their practice through regular discussions with experienced and knowledgeable colleagues. However, it remains challenging to ensure the effectiveness of its implementation across healthcare organizations. This review is going to answer the question: What effect does clinical supervision h...

What is a performance outlier?

To cite: Shahian DM, Normand S-LT. BMJ Qual Saf 2015;24:95–99. Healthcare performance measurement is a complex undertaking, often presenting a number of potential alternative approaches and methodological nuances. Important considerations include richness and quality of data sources; data completeness; choice of metrics and target population; sample size; patientand provider-level data collecti...

Follow-up after the Ross procedure. How significant it is

Background/Introduction Replacement of the aortic valve or aortic root with a pulmonary autograft (Ross procedure) and replacement of the pulmonary valve with a pulmonary allograft or xenograft and is now a widely used technique for the treatment of aortic valve disease in the children and young adult. Excellent short and midterm results have been demonstrated but there is continuing concern ab...

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