Quality improvement and practice-based research in sleep medicine using structured clinical documentation in the electronic medical record

Abstract Background We developed and implemented a structured clinical documentation support (SCDS) toolkit within the electronic medical record, to optimize patient care, facilitate documentation, and capture data at office visits in a sleep medicine/neurology clinic for patient care and research collaboration internally and with other centers.Met

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Modeling the link beam behavior to evaluate its performance according to FEMA 356 and calculating the target displacement of performance levels

The presence of the link beam in eccentrically braced frames is primarily responsible for different behavior of this frame with other structural systems.In accordance with the FEMA 356, for the evaluation of the performance of the link beam in all of its behavioral areas, the plastic rotation of the plastic hinges is required.In many studies, for t

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Historical and contemporary DNA indicate fisher decline and isolation occurred prior to the European settlement of California.

Establishing if species contractions were the result of natural phenomena or human induced landscape changes is essential for managing natural lagoon (snes populations.Fishers (Martes pennanti) in California occur in two geographically and genetically isolated populations in the northwestern mountains and southern Sierra Nevada.Their isolation is h

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