JHB as a Collaborative Effort

JHB as a Collaborative Effort.

A roundtable discussion alarm safety: a collaborative effort.

Massachusetts General Hospital and the alarms that should have sounded didn’t, the incident set off a different kind of alarm throughout the hospital, in Boston, and in state regulatory agencies. The tragic situation also provided a learning experience for Mass General and the larger medical community.1 In that spirit, AAMI recently gathered a group of experts to discuss a number of alarm safet...

Collaborative effort seeks to curb hospital infections.

HOSPITAL-ACQUIREDINFECTIONSREmainapersistentproblem,affecting about 1 in 20 patients each year, according to estimates from the US Department of HealthandHuman Services.Butefforts to curb such infections have had mixed results. To achieve better results, 2 groups critical to the management of hospital-acquired infections—infection controlprofessionals, or infection preventionists (IPs), and lab...

LERIL: Collaborative Effort for Creating Lexical Resources

The paper reports on efforts taken to create lexical resources pertaining to Indian languages, using the collaborative model. The lexical resources being developed are: (1) transfer lexicon and grammar from English to several Indian languages, and (2) dependency tree bank of annotated corpora for several Indian languages. The dependency trees are based on the Paninian model. (3) is an attempt t...

Effort Estimation Based on Collaborative Filtering

Effort estimation methods are one of the important tools for project managers in controlling human resources of ongoing or future software projects. The estimations require historical project data including process and product metrics that characterize past projects. Practically, in using the estimation methods, it is a problem that the historical project data frequently contain substantial mis...