Contents of Fifth 2005 Issue

Nosokinetics

Fifth Issue in 2005

(c)Authors for content; Peter Millard, Roy Johnston for e-version

In this 5th issue of 2005 we have four main papers, followed by notices. The notices and the papers are hotlinked each to their own page. Ed.

Here first are the full e-versions of the substantive papers:

Modelling Bed Costs for the Elderly: Barry Shaw and Adele H Marshall, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
E-mail: {barry.shaw, a.h.marshall}@qub.ac.uk

Modelling the costs for a group of patients' duration of stay in hospital using an extension of Bayesian network (BN) theory is developed whereby patients' survival time in hospital is modelled with respect to the interrelationships between the patients' clinical variables.

Bed Management at the Sharp End: Peter Olley MB, BS. FRCP (London), FRCP (C); Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Canada.
Email: peter@sapmed.ac.jp

Optimal bed utilization is a headache for both clinicians and health care economists and has triggered various strategies for best management. This is a brief account of one solution to the problem.

At Craiova: 'Modelling the Elephant' workshop: Ruxandra Stoean;
Roy Johnston, who works with IMS, comments suggesting a multi-channel queue system with many stakeholders, and Peter replies.

Hands across the world: 21st Century Magic: Step-by-step, two mathematics professors, Malcolm Faddy in Brisbane and Sally McClean in Northern Ireland have been unpacking the process of geriatric medical care.

Additional Notes from the Editor; some abstracts of relevant published papers, and some hotlinks.

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We are indebted to IMS MAXIMS plc's sponsorship for enabling the website version to be developed. IMS is a significant supplier to NHS and has an ongoing interest in enhancing the scope of IT support in the NHS, especially in the areas of clinical knowledge and decision support, and in interfacing these areas with hospital management. Developers of systems looking for market opportunities are invited to contact IMS at their UK office, or by e-mail to Paul Cooper pcooper@imsmaxims.com).

http://www.imsmaxims.com will give a feel for the scope of their work.

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