Objectives: To review the history of clinical information systems over the past twenty-five
years and project anticipated changes to those systems over the next twenty-five years …

Objective Determine how varying longitudinal historical training data can impact prediction
of future clinical decisions. Estimate the “decay rate” of clinical data source relevance …

Objective: We hypothesized that perioperative hospital resources could overcome the
“weekend effect”(WE) in patients undergoing emergent/urgent surgeries. Summary …

The Kaizen method is an approach to lean process improvement that is based on the idea
that small ongoing positive changes can lead to major improvements in efficiency and …

Study Design Retrospective database study. Objectives The goal of this study was to assess
the influence of weekend admission on patients undergoing elective thoracolumbar spinal …

Objective To introduce and evaluate a method that uses electronic medical record (EMR)
data to measure the effects of computer system downtime on clinical processes associated …

Results| There were 2979 patients who met the criteria for inclusion. Of these, 2033 did not
have the weekend effect and 946 had the weekend effect. Patients without the weekend …

Background Insights into behaviours relevant to the transmission of infections are extremely
valuable for epidemiological investigations. Healthcare worker (HCW) mobility and patient …

Background Challenging discharges can lead to prolonged hospital stays. We hypothesized
that surgical patients discharged from Veterans Affairs hospitals on weekdays have longer …

Methods| This was a retrospective, cross-sectional review of data from Florida in 2011.
Patient-level data were obtained from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality …