Some potentially dangerous diseases are completely asymptomatic. Their diagnosis as incidental findings of ever more sensitive medical imaging can leave patients and physicians in something of a quandary. The patient feels well and potential interventions to stave off long term deterioration or...

The coordination of activities in a work context has been examined by many disciplines and in recent years the role of information systems and other artifacts has become increasingly prominent. The emergency department (ED) of a hospital in a large US city is used to study how information...

Purpose: To demonstrate a simple mathematical model for evaluating operational decisions for preparing compounded sterile products in a hospital pharmacy.Summary: This paper describes a simple mathematical model, based on a small set of parameters easily estimated from existing data. This model...