Critical pathways, developed for utilisation in the health sector, are tools that are increasingly being used to implement co-ordinated patient care. The introduction of critical pathways results in planned progress through an episode of care, whilst optimising health outcomes and minimising resource utilisation. The advantages of implementing critical pathways are increasingly evident, with re...

A two-stage study aimed to identify the effects of the critical pathway recording methodology on clinical coding practice and to determine coders' participation in pathway development. Critical pathways were found to be in widespread use, with low coder participation in pathway development and poor education on pathway data extraction. Coders favoured the traditional medical record format; priv...

For higher order multiplications, a huge number of adders or compressors are to be used to perform the partial product addition. We have reduced the number of adders by introducing special kind of adders that are capable to add five/six/seven bits per decade. These adders are called compressors. Binary counter property has been merged with the compressor property to develop high order compresso...

Critical Path Profiling is a technique that provides guidance to help programmers try to improve the running time of their program. However, Critical Path Profiling provides only an upper bound estimate of the improvement possible in a parallel program execution. In this paper, we present a new metric, called Slack , to complement Critical Path and provide additional information to parallel pro...