This dissertation describes an exploratory style modelling application intended to simulate a guitar player's style and replicate it with some degree of creativity and originality. This was achieved using a combination of a stochastic technique (Markov Chains) and a biochemical restructuring process (Autocatalytic Set Theory). The key objective was to see if natural restructuring processes coul...

INTRODUCTION Nursing documentation is one of the main parts of clinical documentation. Poor knowledge of nurses in documentation methods could bring about problems for patients and nurses. It is very important to promote nurses' knowledge and skills in this regard through effective teaching methods. The aim of this study was to use Team-Based Learning (TBL) to teach nursing documentation for nu...

BACKGROUND Documentation in the medical record facilitates the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Few studies have assessed the quality of outpatient medical record documentation, and to the authors' knowledge, none has conclusively determined the correlates of chart documentation. We therefore undertook the present study to measure the rates of documentation of quality of care measures in an...

OBJECTIVE Medication documentation is a critical aspect of quality patient care. The current study examined whether electronic medical records provide medication documentation that is more complete and faster to retrieve than traditional paper records. METHOD This study involves a comparison of archived paper medical records to recent electronic medical records through chart review. A conveni...

We often wish to evaluate treatments and other factors in studies where only some of those factors are directly controlled by the investigators. The framework of “principal stratification” has been proposed recently for evaluating partially controlled studies under such broader settings (Frangakis and Rubin (2002)). We have developed a software package, “PSpack”, with appropriate documentation ...