Chronic disease programs in state public health agencies across the United States are increasingly taking action to integrate activities across single-disease program lines. The perceived benefits of program integration are the motivating force behind these actions, but there is little documentation about how to integrate programs, what the benefits are to program integration, and what barriers...

Techniques were developed by which an Algol-like program, given together with its specifications, may be documented automatically. This documentation expresses invariant relationships that hold between program variables at intermediate points in the program, and explains the actual workings of the program regardless of whether the program is correct. These techniques, formulated as deduction ru...

PHYSICIANS ARE INCREASINGLY being utilized as advisors in various aspects of healthcare delivery. These include utilization review, quality resource management, and clinical documentation improvement. An effective strategy must be used to develop a physician advisor program in the area of clinical documentation, since accurate information has risen in importance due to increased record audits, ...

Organizing the programming effort for large projects can be a daunting task. Programming teams are under pressure to complete work accurately and rapidly, while using standard templates and macros whenever possible. Add to that several levels of documentation and a manager’s need for frequent status updates and you have an administrative nightmare. A system is necessary to integrate programming...

Patient-education information provided to patients undergoing progenitor cell transplantation (PCT) is complex. Patients' and caregivers' inability to process this information and apply principles of self-care can result in poor outcomes. An interdisciplinary team developed a three-part modular teaching program and documentation tool to address the complex informational needs of patients underg...

The program package is available at the Internet site "cochlea.hut." and will be updated continuously. The indexing of the latest release will always be of the form "lvq pak-X.Y". The instructions below are indexed as in the version lvq pak-1.1, which was released on December 31, 1991. The programs are available in two archive formats, one for the UNIX-environment, the other for MS-DOS, respect...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: death-related information is source for identifying the health prerequisites and formulating the related programs. due to importance of data for decision making, evaluation of it to determine the rate of documentation and errors is necessary. methods: in this descriptive, cross-sectional study, all issued cer...

The Magnet Recognition Program has been revised to simplify instructions, eliminate redundancy, and reduce the documentation burden for applicants. One of the major changes is that required documentation is now categorized by the 14 Forces of Magnetism to match the Scope and Standards for Nurse Administrators (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2004) through the use of a crosswalk matrix. Howev...

We present an approach for designing a literate programming tool that, in addition to covering the technical issues, especially targets the acceptance of the documentation system by the program developer. We then describe the DosfOp documentation system for the Opal language, which was developed in line with these design principles. Finally, we discuss experiences with the system from a user's ...