Research in oncology quality of care and health outcomes has been limited by the difficulty of identifying cancer stage in health care claims data. Using linked cancer registry and Medicare claims data, we develop a tool for classifying lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy into early vs. late stage cancer by (i) deploying ensemble machine learning for prediction, (ii) establishing a set ...

Introduction The rapidly changing regulatory environment across all industry sectors requires managers and their boards to be more anticipatory to the challenges of strong governance, effective enterprise-wide risk management and the implementation of an efficient and effective compliance regime. Many organisations have sought to create an integrated governance, risk and compliance (GRC) oversi...

Occupational accidents have a major impact upon human integrity and they also create high costs for the social welfare system in a country. Furthermore, risk analysis is an essential process for the safety policy of a company, having as main aim the effacement of any potential of damage. The diversity in risk analysis approaches is such that there are many appropriate techniques for most circum...

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