OBJECTIVE To update previous systematic review of predictive models for 28-day or 30-day unplanned hospital readmissions. DESIGN Systematic review. SETTING/DATA SOURCE CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE from 2011 to 2015. PARTICIPANTS All studies of 28-day and 30-day readmission predictive model. OUTCOME MEASURES Characteristics of the included studies, performance of the identified predictive mod...

One of the issues helping make investment decisions is appropriate tools and models to evaluate financial situation 0f the organization.  By means of these tools, investors can analyze financial situation of the organization and identify financial distress or an ideal condition, they become aware of making decisions to invest in appropriate conditions.  The main objective of this study is to ev...

Introduction: Adolescents are the important portions of the Iranian population. Adolescents health status has a critical role in their learning ability and their performance. The present study aimed to determine the predictive factors for general health status in Iranian high school students in 2014. Materials and methods: In a cross-sectional study evaluated the predictive factors for general...

This study compares the predictive ability of: (1) ratings, rating changes and total assets; (2) financial ratios; and (3) financial ratios combined with ratings and rating changes on a sample of forty-eight insolvent life insurers over the period 1990 to 1992. Based on the expected cost of misclassification, ratings, rating changes and total assets have comparable predictive ability to financi...

model predictive controller is widely used in industrial plants. uncertainty is one of the critical issues in real systems. in this paper, the direct adaptive simplified model predictive control (smpc) is proposed for unknown or time varying plants with uncertainties. by estimating the plant step response in each sample, the controller is designed and the controller coefficients are directly ca...