Overcoming Barriers to Oxygen Saturation Targeting

Overcoming barriers to oxygen saturation targeting.

OBJECTIVE To reduce hyperoxia in very low birth weight infants who receive supplemental oxygen, the Children's Mercy Hospital neonatal respiratory quality improvement committee introduced the potentially better practice of oxygen saturation targeting and identified strategies to overcome barriers to implementation of this practice. METHODS Using rapid-cycle quality improvement projects, this ...

Overcoming Barriers to Evaluation of Terminological Systems

Evaluation of terminological systems has been demonstrated to be a complicated task. This is due to the broad range of terminological systems, their application, and the clinical contexts in which they can be applied. We propose an evaluation framework that explicitly distinguishes an application-independent description of terminological systems, methods to determine application-dependent requi...

Overcoming immunologic barriers to discordant organ xenotransplantation

time, reduced ischemic injury) may counterbalance the poor HLA matching in the ULD group. Although the arguments against the use of living donors must be considered, long-term prospects for kidney donors is reassuring provided there is careful evaluation of potential donors and the strict criteria for exclusion are respected [2]. The benefit for the donor must also not be ignored. Our current p...

Overcoming the Barriers to Greater Public Engagement

The concept of public engagement (PE) in science has evolved steadily over the last thirty years. Early PE activities were often delivered didactically in a one-way flow of information, largely built on the belief that if only the public were told about science, then deficiencies in their understanding could be corrected, and support for scientific funding would improve [1]. Over time, PE has b...

Overcoming Barriers to Disruptive Innovation in Networking