Using a mock trial to make a difficult clinical decision.

Clinical Decision-Making: a Way to Professional Empowerment in Nursing

Background. The dynamic and uncertain nature of health care environment requires nurses to be competent decision makers and to respond to the clients needs. Recently, the public and the government have criticized Iranian nurses because of a low quality patient care. However, the nurses’ views and experiences concern- ing the factors affecting their clinical practice and clinical decision making...

A Simulation-Optimization Model For Capacity Coordination In Make To Stock/Make To Order Production Environments

Capacity coordination, as the tactical level of hierarchical production planning in hybrid MTS/MTO systems, includes numerous important decisions. In this paper, two of these decisions i.e. finding the best strategy for the acceptance/rejection of incoming orders and determining orders’ due dates – are investigated. Also a simulation model is proposed to evaluate the efficiency of the presented...

A Batch-wise ATP Procedure in Hybrid Make-to-Order/Make-to-Stock Manufacturing Environment

Satisfying customer demand necessitates manufacturers understanding the importance of Available-To-Promise (ATP). It directly links available resources to customer orders and has significant impact on overall performance of a supply chain. In this paper, an improvement of the batch-mode ATP function in which the partial fulfillment of the orders is available will be proposed. In other words, in...

How many measurements to make a decision?

Pascal Houillier,* Joël Coste,* and Marc Froissart* *Department of Physiology, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; Department of Physiology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; INSERM, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, UMRS 872, Paris, France; Biostatistics and Epidemiology Unit, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance PubliqueHôpitaux de Paris, ...

DECISION-CTO: A "negative" clinical trial? Really?