Readmissions after laparoscopic cholecystectomy – you cannot change what you cannot measure

"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it".

See What You Cannot See

DU. A national study of chronic disease prevalence and access to care in uninsured U. Engelgau MM. Self-management education for adults with type 2 diabetes: A meta-analysis of the effect on glycemic control. The health status of patients of a student-run free medical clinic in inner-city Buffalo, NY. Insuring the uninsured: A student-run initiative to improve access to care in an urban communi...

Modifying gravity: you cannot always get what you want.

The combination of general relativity (GR) and the Standard Model of particle physics disagrees with numerous observations on scales from our Solar System up. In the canonical concordance model of Lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmology, many of these contradictions between theory and data are removed or alleviated by the introduction of three completely independent new components of stress en...

Just test what you cannot verify ! 1

Software verification is an established method to ensure software safety. Nevertheless, verification still often fails, either because it consumes too much resources, e.g., time or memory, or the technique is not mature enough to verify the property. Often then discarding the partial verification, the validation process proceeds with techniques like testing. To enable standard testing to profit...

Constraint Acquisition - You Can Chase but You Cannot Find

We identify established tableaux techniques as an invaluable tool for semantic knowledge acquisition in the design process of relational databases. Sample databases allow users and designers to judge, justify, convey and test their understanding of the semantics of the future database. In the case of integrity constraints such sample data can provide considerable assistance for deciding whether...