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Benchmarking Patient Outcomes, Ellen B. Rudy, Joseph F. Lucke, Gayle R. Whitman, Lynda J. Davidson

Joseph Lucke

Purpose: To examine the usefulness of three types of benchmarking for interpreting patient outcome data.

Design: This study was part of a multiyear, multihospital longitudinal survey of 10 patient outcomes. The patient outcome used for this methodologic presentation was central line infections (CLI). The sample included eight hospitals in an integrated healthcare system, with a range in size from 144 to 861 beds. The unit of analysis for CLI was the number of line days, with the CLI rate defined as the number of infections per 1,000 patient-line days per month.

Methods: Data on each outcome were collected at the …

Distinguishing Natural Language Processes On The Basis Of Fmri-Measured Brain Activation, Francisco Pereira, Marcel Just, Tom Mitchell

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

Mental Rotation Of Objects Retrieved From Memory: An Fmri Study Of Spatial Processing, Marcel Just, Patricia Carpenter, Mandy Maguire, Vaibhav Diwadkar, Stephanie Mcmains

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

Interdependence Of Non-Overlapping Cortical Systems In Dual Cognitive Tasks, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter, Timothy A. Keller, Lisa Emery, Holly Zajac, Keith R. Thulborn

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

An Fmri Investigation Of Sentence Comprehension By Eye And By Ear: Modality Fingerprints On Cognitive Processes, Erica B. Michael, Timothy A. Keller, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.