PURPOSE Dementia case management (CM) in primary care is a complex intervention aimed at identifying the various needs of patients with dementia and their caregivers, as well as the organization and coordination of care. A key element of CM is the collaboration of family physicians with case managers. We conducted a systematic mixed-studies review to identify the needs of the patient-caregiver ...

The special interest group knowledge management (Wissensmanagement) of the German Society for Computer Science (GI) emerged from the fusion of the former special interest groups on case-based reasoning and knowledge management. The group regularly publishes a newsletter on related topics. See: www.fgwm. de There is an international Yahoo newsgroup on CBR. See: tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/case-b...

BACKGROUND Although tuberculosis (TB) care is provided free of charge in Morocco, a high number of patients voluntarily interrupt their treatment before the end. Treatment Default is a major obstacle in the fight against the disease. The purpose of this study was to describe the impact of knowledge and attitudes toward TB on treatment adherence. METHODS Case-control study of 290 TB patients (...

A comprehensive video retrieval system should be able to accommodate and utilize various (complementary) description data in facilitating effective retrieval. In this paper, we advocate a hybrid retrieval approach by integrating a query-based (database) mechanism with content-based retrieval (CBR) functions. We describe the VideoMAP architecture, discuss issues related to developing such a comp...

The present paper develops a simple, easy to interpret algorithm for a large class of dynamic allocation problems with unknown, volatile demand. Potential applications include ad display problems and network revenue management problems. The algorithm operates in an online fashion and relies on reoptimization and forecast updates. The algorithm is robust (as witnessed by uniform worst-case guara...

INTRODUCTION Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts longer than three to six months, or pain that persists beyond the expected time frame of healing for an injury1. This review looks at current practice in chronic pain management. The model of “pain as a disease entity” proposed by Siddall and Cousins2 is reviewed along with the interdisciplinary approach to chronic pain management. Lastly ...

A randomized 3-year study assessed the effect of expanded community-based services and case management on 5,254 caregivers of dementia clients. A tested policy concern was whether the financing of formal care would result in a reduction of informal assistance. Unmet needs task assistance for the demonstration's treatment group caregivers decreased by 30 percent within 6 months and by about 20 p...

Prediction without justification has limited applicability. As a remedy, we learn to extract pieces of input text as justifications – rationales – that are tailored to be short and coherent, yet sufficient for making the same prediction. Our approach combines two modular components, generator and encoder, which are trained to operate well together. The generator specifies a distribution over te...

Bounded Model Checking based on SAT methods has recently been introduced as a complementary technique to BDD-based Symbolic Model Checking. The basic idea is to search for a counter example in executions whose length is bounded by some integer k. The BMC problem can be eeciently reduced to a propositional satissabil-ity problem, and can therefore be solved by SAT methods rather than BDDs. SAT p...

In this article, case management departments and roles during the early years of the social health maintenance organization (S/HMO) demonstrations are compared. These organizations provide acute and chronic care services under a prepaid plan for the elderly. Eligibility criteria for case management and chronic care services at each site are compared, followed by a description of the resultant c...