CMS is seeking to simplify the process for validating hospital accreditation surveys, according to an Aug. 22 blog post from The Joint Commission. Historically, state agencies conducted a separate ...

The authors developed and validated a survey instrument to assess primary care providers’ and pharmacists’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs regarding medication discontinuation. ABSTRACTObjectives: ...

Accurate and scalable methods for land area measurement are essential for estimating key agricultural indicators, such as crop yields, as well as understanding agricultural relationships. A ...

These methods hold out a small amount of training data, called validation data, and use it to assess the accuracy of the predictor. To find the root of the problem, they conducted a thorough analysis ...

Collectively, recreational fisheries can take a significant fraction of the yearly catch—in some cases more than commercial fisheries. It is important that systems used to monitor fishing catch are ...