‘Why admit to a bed?’

A qualitative study of why general practitioners admit to community hospitals.

BACKGROUND Intermediate care, which is provided by community hospitals, is increasingly seen as one way of reducing pressure on secondary care. However, despite evidence of wide variation, there is little literature describing how general practitioners (GPs) use these hospitals. Because of the control they have over decisions to admit, development of these units depends on the cooperation of GP...

"Admit medical".

Editorial "Admit medical" As the fog of uncertainty surrounding the purchaser/provider relationship in the restructured health service begins to clear, many doctors responsible for providing acute services find that darkness has already fallen. For those who are charged with managing acute medical admissions to hospital, difficult nights finding beds lie ahead. Hospital physicians and referring...

ADMIT - A Web-Based System to Facilitate Graduate Admission Process

In this paper we describe ADMIT, a software application developed to assist the graduate admissions process at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (SIS). ADMIT uses a Bayesian network model built from historical admissions data and academic performance records to predict how likely each applicant is to succeed. The system rank-orders applicants based on the probability o...

WHY AND HOW TO APPLY QUANTUM LEARNING AS A NEW APPROACH TO IMPLEMENTATION THE CURRICULUM

The present study was philosophical and analytical research that examines quantum learning as an effective approach to the curriculum in a qualitative way. It explored books, published essays, and related studies, and took some advantages of online materials on the issue from domestic and foreign sources. Because of large body of data on the issue, only the relevant information was included. Da...

Why Learning How to Chase Butterflies Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries