Modeling variation of clinical team processes with multiple sequence alignment.

Our objective was to model process variation of Emergency Medical Service teams responding to simulated pediatric emergencies and determine if sequence alignment distinguishes performance quality. We performed a retrospective process analysis by watching and coding activities in videos from standardized simulations of 42 Emergency Medical Service teams. Teams were classified into high- or low-performing groups based on the Clinical Teamwork Scale™.

Eliciting the Intension of Drug Value Sets - Principles and Quality Assurance Applications.

Value sets (VSs) used in electronic clinical quality measures are lists of codes from standard terminologies ("extensional" VSs), whose purpose ("intension") is not always explicitly stated. We elicited the intension for the 09/01/2014 release of extensional medication value sets by comparison to drug classes from the October 2014 release of RxClass. Value sets matched drug classes if they shared common ingredients, as evidenced by Jaccard similarity score.

Discovering synergistic qualities of published authors to enhance translational research.

Translational research is the process of bringing together basic scientific research and improvements in patient care. This process, by its very nature, requires a wide range of skills and resources, typically not found within any single individual. This project investigates the synergistic features of published researchers at the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute(OCTRI) to see how scientists with different specializations can be brought together to improve translational research.