Fall prevention for inpatient oncology using lean and rapid improvement event techniques.

Objective: The objective of this project was to reduce patient falls and falls with injury on three oncology divisions at a large urban teaching hospital. By standardizing assessment, intervention, and post-fall investigation processes the goal was to decrease patient falls and falls with injury rate by 50% and 30%, respectively.

Background: Preventing patients from being injured due to a fall during their hospitalization has been a concern in healthcare for many years.

Infrared band model technique for combustion diagnostics.

An optical method to determine radial temperature and water vapor concentration profiles from a radiating combustion source is presented. Equations for radiance and transmissivity using the random band model with constant line widths and a delta-function distribution for line strengths are written for a hypothetical cylindrically symmetrical source. A numerical iterative technique of solution of these equations for temperature and water vapor concentration from measured radiance and transmittance profiles is presented, utilizing band model parameter data from the literature.