Inpatient medical notes often fail to record important details of patient history and findings on clinical examination. To overcome problems with content and legibility of notes we introduced preprinted notes for the admission of children to this hospital. The quality of the information recorded for 100 children whose admissions were clerked with the preprinted notes was compared with that reco...

BACKGROUND Little is known about documentation during transitions of patient care between clinical specialties. Therefore, we examined the focus, structure and purpose of physician progress notes for patients transferred from the intensive care unit (ICU) to hospital ward to identify opportunities to improve communication breaks. METHODS This was a prospective cohort study in ten Canadian hos...

These notes are not necessarily an accurate representation of what happened in class. The notes written before class say what I think I should say. I sometimes edit the notes after class to make them way what I wish I had said. There may be small mistakes, so I recommend that you check any mathematically precise statement before using it in your own work. These notes were last revised on Decemb...

These notes are not necessarily an accurate representation of what happened in class. The notes written before class say what I think I should say. I sometimes edit the notes after class to make them way what I wish I had said. There may be small mistakes, so I recommend that you check any mathematically precise statement before using it in your own work. These notes were last revised on Septem...

These notes are not necessarily an accurate representation of what happened in class. The notes written before class say what I think I should say. I sometimes edit the notes after class to make them way what I wish I had said. There may be small mistakes, so I recommend that you check any mathematically precise statement before using it in your own work. These notes were last revised on Decemb...

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OBJECTIVE Although electronic notes have advantages compared to handwritten notes, they take longer to write and promote information redundancy in electronic health records (EHRs). We sought to quantify redundancy in clinical documentation by studying collections of physician notes in an EHR. DESIGN AND METHODS We implemented a retrospective design to gather all electronic admission, progress...

These lecture notes on channel coding were developed for a one-semester course for graduate students of electrical engineering. Chapter 1 reviews the basic problem of channel coding. Chapters 2–5 are on linear block codes, cyclic codes, Reed-Solomon codes, and BCH codes, respectively. The notes are self-contained and were written with the intent to derive the presented results with mathematical...

These notes contain the material related to the three lectures that I have delivered at the Workshop ‘Recent Advances in Homogenization’ held at INdAM, Rome in the week 23–27 May 2005. The notes are thought just as a complement and reference for the single lectures, and not as a whole: I must warn that the chapters are unevenly written. Some are elaboration of articles that have already appeare...

LIKE T H E PRECEDING ARTICLES in this semiannual series1 this survey is based on notes written by members of the staff of the Columbia University Libraries. Notes written by assistants are signed with initials.2 As the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and foreign works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either wel...