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Top 10 words of leadership advice … or, things your mother never told you!

Nursing leaders are in a unique position within the healthcare system. Today there is more emphasis on multidisciplinary care, cost containment and corporate accountability. Often this means that leaders have a unique connection with front-line providers, require a different set of skills and work with different stakeholders on ways to advance the system. In my role as president of ACEN, I have...

"You never told me that could happen!" Consent and litigation: how to avoid it.

It certainly can seem that whenever something goes wrong, patients want to sue the individual concerned. If they cannot show that the doctor was negligent in the procedure that was performed, they often claim that “you never told me that could happen”. To help avoid litigation in this area, three factors should be considered: (1) What you tell the patient; (2) How you tell them; and (3) What yo...

Be Prepared: things my scoutmaster never told me.

P reparedness, a term that originated in the military lexicon and connoted a readiness for war, has become one of the new watchwords of emergency medicine. In this issue of the Journal are two articles dealing with emergency department (ED) preparedness (see pages 12 and 18). These articles are interesting to consider, both for their similarities and for their advocacy of ED preparedness. Gorma...

"Told you i didn't like it": Exploiting uninteresting items for effective collaborative filtering

We study how to improve the accuracy and running time of top-N recommendation with collaborative filtering (CF). Unlike existing works that use mostly rated items (which is only a small fraction in a rating matrix), we propose the notion of preuse preferences of users toward a vast amount of unrated items. Using this novel notion, we effectively identify uninteresting items that were not rated ...