Reliability modeling of electronic circuits can be best performed by the stressor – susceptibility interaction model. A circuit or a system is deemed to be failed once the stressor has exceeded the susceptibility limits. Complex manufacturing systems often require a high level of reliability from the incoming electricity supply. Modern industrial time power quality monitoring systems can be use...

OBJECTIVES It is important to monitor the healthcare utilization of patients at the national level to make evidence-based policy decisions and manage the nation's healthcare sector. The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) has run a Healthcare Utilization Monitoring System (HUMS) since 2008. The objective of this paper is to introduce HIRA's HUMS. METHODS This study described t...

The findings show that with the development of a multitude of safe and effective drugs during the later part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, drugs are, as never before, a true mainstay of medical treatment. CMS continues to monitor drug utilization and expenditures in all of its programs in order to ensure that care is rendered in a cost-effective manner that is benef...

Grant Agreement nr 611057 Project acronym EUMSSI Start date of project (dur.) December 1st 2013 (36 months) Document due Date : 31 May 2014 Actual date of delivery 6 June 2014 Leader LUH Reply to [email protected] Document status Submitted

For the last 10 years, I’ve been on both sides of utilization review (UR). As a practicing physician, I know what it’s like to get “those calls.” As a part-time utilization reviewer, I’m usually satisfied with the interactions I have with physicians and the information I get from them. When a telephone review seems unsatisfactory, it’s often because I feel I’m speaking a different language than...