Demystification of artificial intelligence for respiratory clinicians managing patients with obstructive lung diseases.

Introduction: Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite all available diagnostics and treatments, these conditions pose a significant individual, economic and social burden. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to support clinical decision-making processes by optimizing diagnosis and treatment strategies of these heterogeneous and complex chronic respiratory diseases.

Generic project definitions for improvement of health care delivery: a case-based approach.

Background: The purpose of this article is to create actionable knowledge, making the definition of process improvement projects in health care delivery more effective.

Methods: This study is a retrospective analysis of process improvement projects in hospitals, facilitating a case-based reasoning approach to project definition. Data sources were project documentation and hospital-performance statistics of 271 Lean Six Sigma health care projects from 2002 to 2009 of general, teaching, and academic hospitals in the Netherlands and Belgium.