BACKGROUND Pregnant diabetic patients are often required to self-measure their blood pressure in the waiting room before consultation. Currently used blood pressure devices do not guarantee valid measurements when used unsupervised. This could lead to misdiagnosis and treatment error. The aim of this study was to investigate current use of blood pressure self-measurement in the waiting room in ...

We consider a system where the superposition of two heterogeneous Poisson traac streams is ooered to an integrated network link in synchronous transfer mode, where one stream follows the blocked-and-cleared mode (`loss' mode) and the other can wait ((nitely) if bandwidth is not available for connection at the time of arrival (`hold' mode); we assume that each stream has diierent bandwidth requi...

Background Policies assigning low-priority patients treatment delays for care, in order to make room for patients of higher priority arriving later, are common in secondary healthcare services today. Alternatively, each new patient could be granted the first available appointment. We aimed to investigate whether prioritisation can be part of the reason why waiting times for care are often...

This paper proposes a prefetch-based disk buuer management algorithm, which we call W 2 R (Weighing/Waiting Room). Instead of using elaborate prefetching schemes to decide which block to prefetch and when, we simply follow the LRU-OBL (One Block Lookahead) approach and prefetch the logical next block along with the block that is being referenced. The basic diierence is that the W 2 R algorithm ...