Victoria S. Jordan

TL;DR: A distribution-free method for defining the in- control state of a process and identifying an in-control reference sample is proposed and the proposed rank-based method is compared with the traditional X chart using Monte Carlo simulation and performs better than the X chart in many situations when the process distribution is skewed or heavy tailed.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a fast-track esophagectomy protocol reduces patients' LOS, perioperative morbidity, and hospital charges.

TL;DR: Over the past decade the National Quality Forum, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bettering the quality of US health care, has endorsed measures of quality for cancer providers and patients.

TL;DR: A new multi-objective integer programming model for the daily scheduling of nurses in operating suites is provided, designed to assign nurses to different surgery cases based on their specialties and competency levels, subject to a series of hard and soft constraints related to nurse satisfaction, idle time, overtime, and job changes during a shift.

TL;DR: Overall compliance with all 3 antibiotic prophylactic measures was greater at hospital 1, but hospital 2 had lower SSI rates, and both hospitals improved in spectrum, and neither hospital improved in discontinuation.