This issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, the second to focus on quality improvement in public health, moves from “knowing the path,” described in the January/February 2010 issue, to actually “walking the path.” The 2010 issue outlined important components of transformation (eg, leadership to give clear vision, breaking down silos, and creating a work environment to su...

Predicate Transformer (Sketchy) ̧P ‹ post[[X:=E]] ‹ ‚P(fq1; : : : ; qng) where fq1; : : : ; qng „ fp1; : : : ; pkg = ̧P ‹ post[[X:=E]]( n \ i=1 I[[qi]]) def. ‚P = ̧P(f[X=[[E]]] j  2 n \ i=1 I[[qi]]g) def. post[[X:=E]] = ̧P( n \ i=1 f[X=[[E]]] j  2 I[[qi]]g) def. \ = ̧P( n \ i=1 I[[qi[X=E]]]) def. substitution = fpj j I[[qi[X=E]) pj]]g def. ̧P ) fpj j theorem_prover[[qi[X=E]) pj]]g since th...

Community hospitals with limited resources struggle to engage physicians in Quality improvement initiatives. We introduced Quality Improvement (QI) curriculum for residents in response to ACGME requirements and surveyed the residents understanding of QI and their involvement in QI projects before and after the introduction of the curriculum. The current article describes our experiences with th...

BACKGROUND The Association of American Medical Colleges and the World Health Organization have endorsed formal patient safety and quality improvement (QI) education for medical students. We surveyed medical students to assess their current level of patient safety and QI knowledge and to identify factors associated with increased knowledge. METHODS A literature review, focus groups with medica...

In a recent paper, A. Libgober showed that the multiplicative sequence {Qi(c1, . . . , ci)} of Chern classes corresponding to the power series Q(z) = Γ(1 + z)−1 appears in a relation between the Chern classes of certain Calabi-Yau manifolds and the periods of their mirrors. We show that the polynomials Qi can be expressed in terms of multiple zeta values. 1. The multiplicative sequence In [6], ...

has a nonzero integer solution for every > 0. If some Qi is rational and is small enough then for x ∈ Zs the inequality |Qi(x)| < is equivalent to the equation Qi(x) = 0. Hence if all forms are rational then for sufficiently small the system (1.1) reduces to a system of equations. In this case W. Schmidt [10] proved the following result. Recall that the real pencil generated by the forms Q1, . ...

A primary objective of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions is to promote excellence in invasive and interventional cardiovascular medicine through physician education and representation, and the advancement of quality standards to enhance patient care. This focus on quality as it applies to the practice of invasive cardiology is unique to SCAI, and the Society has demon...

Streptococcus pneumoniae infection is associated with high morbidity and mortality in low income countries. In Nepal, there is a high lung disease burden and incidence of pneumonia due to multiple factors including indoor air pollution, dust exposure, recurrent infections, and cigarette smoking. Despite the ready availability of effective pneumococcal vaccines (PNV), vaccine coverage rates rema...

OBJECTIVE There are barriers to providing early physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) in the intensive care unit (ICU). We present a specific model for undertaking quality improvement (QI) projects and a case study focused on QI for early PM&R in the ICU. METHODS The QI project was undertaken using a 4-step model: (1) summarizing the evidence, (2) identifying barriers, (3) establishing ...

BACKGROUND Predictors of quality improvement (QI) training transfer are needed. This study aimed to identify these predictors among health professionals who participated in a QI training program held at a large hospital in the United States between 2005 and 2014. It also aimed to determine how these predictive factors facilitated or impeded QI training transfer. METHODS Following the Success ...