The next time your doctor hands you your discharge plan, you may want to wear gloves. It turns out that paper—one of the surfaces in hospitals that can't be scrubbed, disinfected and sanitized—is ...

Embattled hospital chain Tenet Healthcare Corp., whose Redding Medical Center is being probed for unnecessary heart surgeries, has shaken up its top management amid a widening investigation of its ...

Length of stay outliers are associated with hospital-acquired infections, complications, and discharge to facility, as opposed to nonmodifiable risk factors like age and comorbidities. Objectives: ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 60, No. 2 (1998), pp. 295-310 (16 pages) A method for robust estimation and multiple outlier detection in time series ...

Data analytics deals with making observations with various data sets, and trying to make sense of the data. When dealing with very large data sets, automated tools must be used to find patterns and ...