Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...rication operations at five plants in real time as orders are received. This scheduling and capable-to-promise application has made Swift & Company a supplier of choice while providing a 200% ROI in its first year of production. The Edelman Award recognizes outstanding implemented operations research that ...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...with this large sequencing project, which produced orders of magnitude more sequence data than had been generated in the past, we are not completely there yet. This is just the tip of the iceberg." Eckburg works with David Relman, MD, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases and geographic medic...New research raises questions about buckyballs and the environment
...h they refer to as "nano-C 60 " that are about 10 orders of magnitude more soluble in water than the individual carbon molecules. In this new experiment, they exposed nano-C 60 to two types of common soil bacteria and found that the particles inhibited both the growth and respiration of the bacteria at ve...Study shows Erbitux may fight colorectal cancer after other therapies fail
...s (EGF) from fitting into the receptors. EGF gives orders for a cancerous cell to grow, so blocking EGF interferes with growth. Most colorectal cancers express EGFR, and high levels of EGFR are usually associated with more metastases and poor prognosis, Lenz explains. Cetuximab also prevents DNA from being...Medication errors continue even in highly computerized hospital
...essful in eliminating problems reading physicians' orders (transcription), but did not resolve the other problems associated with administering medication, drug selection, dosage and monitoring. "In conclusion, our study found high rates of clinically important ADEs related to problems in drug selection, d...Newly published summer camp health guideline advises parents, camp directors
...rea to make sure that health policies and standing orders are up-to-date. They can also act as medical backups to the nurses and paramedic-trained camp health officers on site at camps -- instead of the local emergency room or urgent care center, which Walton's study found was the case 75 percent of the tim...New technology can boost bottom lines for US hospitals
...ospital system such as lab results and medication orders and "writes" them into the physician's documentation. This feature dramatically reduces the amount of time that physicians waste searching for patient data to make important clinical decisions. Conclusions The degree to which Compliance+ TM wil...Northwestern Memorial named among '100 Most Wired Hospitals' for sixth consecutive year
...ficantly larger percentage of physicians who enter orders themselves and they conduct a larger percentage of...care coordination with timely access to medication orders and administration records. The EHR also integrates medical records throughout the organization and...Lifespan again named among 100 Most Wired and 25 Most Wireless hospitals
...e care hospitals, between 80 and 90 percent of all orders including medication, lab and radiology are ente...gnificantly larger percentages of physicians enter orders themselves, compared with other organizations. The Most Wired hospitals conduct a larger percentage...Researchers pinpoint molecular basis for phantom pain
...ally, the perception of pain travels through three orders of neurons. The first order neurons carry signals from the periphery to the spinal cord, the second order neurons relay this information from the spinal cord to the thalamus and the third order neurons transmit the information from the thalamus to th...OHSU studies program that converts patient wishes into medical orders
...rm provides the emergency medical technicians with orders for treatments that are consistent with patient preferences. "More than a dozen states are currently using the POLST either statewide or regionally," explained Susan Hickman, Ph.D., an assistant professor of nursing in the OHSU School of Nursing and...No single strategy effective to control antibiotic prescribing in hospitals
... Restrictive interventions included automatic stop orders for certain antibiotics or required preauthorization from an infectious-disease specialist for some drugs. The reviewers looked at how the interventions affected three different kinds of outcomes. Drug outcomes included whether or not a doctor prescr...Despite rarity of errors in chemotherapy orders, improvements still needed, study finds
...ave found that about three percent of chemotherapy orders in three outpatient infusion clinics studied conta...ip supported the in-depth review of all medication orders to gain information about potential system defects. The goal was to utilize the results of the stud...Chemotherapy errors rare, but have potential for serious consequences
About one out of 30 chemotherapy orders at three ambulatory infusion clinics had errors, and one in 50 orders had a serious error, according to a study appearing in the December 1, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http:/...Fewer heart failure patients die when hospitals make efforts to improve care
...rt failure care. For instance, they wrote standard orders for drugs called beta blockers, diuretics, ACE inhibitors and aldosterone antagonists -- all of which have been shown to help reduce problems in heart failure patients. A standard order means that a doctor is automatically prompted to prescribe certa...Counseling children about skin cancer important, but rarely done
...are two types of UV light A and B. UVB is several orders of magnitude stronger in producing sunburns, tanning and damage to cells than UVA. The composition of natural sunlight on a sunny day is about 90 percent to 95 percent UVA and 5 percent to 10 percent UVB. Newer sunlamps and tanning beds (manufacture...New test to detect rare proteins in blood
...tion Catalyzed by T7-polymerase Technique, is five orders of magnitude (100,000 times) greater than that of ELISA, the Penn researchers found. Senior author Mark I. Greene MD, PhD, the John Eckman Professor of Medical Science, Hongtao Zhang, PhD research specialist; Xin Cheng, PhD, research investigator, ...Prisons not adapting to needs of aging inmate population
... alarm goes off, climbing onto a top bunk, hearing orders from correctional officers, standing in line to be counted, and walking to the dining hall, which may be a considerable distance from a prisoner's cell "When an alarm goes off, every inmate has to get down on the floor immediately, in order for the...5 finalists compete for Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research
...or disabled, weather gets in the way, and customer orders are changed. Planning the optimal shipments and making sure they get to their locations on time often requires intricate maneuvers that are difficult to do by hand, even more difficult without the use of smaller ships. Mre Research / Molde Universit...Abdominal fat more significant in exercise-induced shortness of breath than overall weight
...ontinue, is that sending the women to the gym with orders to soldier on through and get in better condition may not help. Dr. Babb says these preliminary data show that some obese patients with breathlessness during exertion do not appear to be deconditioned as conventionally thought, but rather suffer fr...