MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'calculations'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:02:19 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3938303&cid=t_203469_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F06%2Fnursing-times-2010-vol-106-no-34%2F This article looks at a study aiming to investigate and compare the numerical and drug calculating abilities of second year student nurses and registered nurses attending a non-medical prescribing programme (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Filed under: Journals Tagged: Drug Calculations, Numerical Skills, Patient Safety (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3938303 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:41:23 +0100 3938303 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3096834&cid=t_203469_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FkoW2Ldme7gM%2F By Andrei IllarionovYesterday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA), of which I am President, issued a study (in Russian), “How Warming Is Being Made: The Case of Russia.” The report, prepared by IEA director Natalya Pivovarova, suggests that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) and the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia (CRU) in Norwich (England) apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data. The IEA report shows that Russian meteorological-station data in the last 130 years did not substantiate the rate of warming on Russian territory suggested by the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature (HadCRUT) database, which has now been partially released. IEA analy... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3096834 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:47:47 +0100 3096834 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2610877&cid=t_203469_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FmQ9vEXvV0jU%2F In my IBD piece today I gave total per pupil spending in DC as $29,000 per pupil. That was based on an official k-12 audited enrollment count of 44,681, which I was told by a district official included the special needs students placed by the district in private schools. It turns out this was not the case, so we have to add in the special needs students to arrive at the total enrollment figure. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get that enrollment correction into the IBD in time for publication. Its impact on per pupil spending is not large, however. The grand total audited enrollment was 48,353 students. From that we have to subtract 997 students in adult education programs and 1,498 students in preschool programs who are not covered by my k-12 budget calculations. That leaves... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2610877 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:52:08 +0100 2610877 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1816187&cid=t_203469_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F399010221%2F A recent CNN article explains well why a growing number of companies use brainteasers and logic puzzles of a type called “guesstimations” during job interviews: - "Seemingly random questions like these have become commonplace in Silicon Valley and other tech outposts, where companies aren't as interested in the correct answer to a tough question as they are in how a prospective employee might try to solve it. Since businesses today have to be able to react quickly to shifting market dynamics, they want more than engineers with high IQs and good college transcripts. They want people who can think on their feet." What are technology companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon) and consulting companies (McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Accenture...) looking for? They want employees w... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1816187 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:47:07 +0100 1816187