Quality Counts, but How Do We Really Measure It?

How do we measure quality?

Stroke care: how do we measure quality?

The purpose of this paper is to review the methods used to measure quality of stroke care. Relevant articles were searched for on Medline using the following key words: stroke, quality, outcome of care, process of care, structure of care. Articles that examined how to measure the quality of stroke care and that examined difficulties in the measurement of care outcomes, processes, and structures...

What Does It Mean and How Do We Measure It?

T he paper by Bonow et al' in this issue of Circulation reports important empirical observations on measuring myocardial viability in humans with the potassium analogue thallium-201. After obtaining standard 20'1f exercise and redistribution images, a second dose of 201TI was injected and a third (reinjection) image was obtained beginning 10-15 minutes later. The reinjection images identified v...

But How Do We Really Debug Transactional Memory Programs?

With recent announcements of hardware transactional memory (HTM) systems from IBM and Intel, HTM will soon be available for widescale adoption. Such platforms, combined with tested and stable software transactional memory systems, are likely to make real transactional memory (TM) systems available for the first time, which promises to be a more attractive alternative than lock-based parallel pr...

Examining the developing bone: What do we measure and how do we do it?

The clinical tools available to evaluate bone development in children are often ambiguous, and difficult to interpret. Unfortunately bone densitometry methods (i.e., dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, DXA) which have a relatively straightforward application in adult osteoporosis, are far more difficult to evaluate in the growing skeleton. Even with adequate "adjustment" for bone size or maturity...