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1. Critical lab values: A 50-year perspective honoring the MLO anniversary of publishing the laboratory panic values paper.

Author

Lundberg, George D.

Subjects
*SERIAL publications, *GENERATIVE artificial intelligence, *DOCUMENTATION, *LABORATORIES, *MEDICARE, *LEADERSHIP, *DECISION making, *SPECIAL days, *PUBLISHING, *ATTITUDES of medical personnel, *COLLECTION & preservation of biological specimens, *TIME, *LABOR supply, *ALGORITHMS
Abstract

The article focuses on the significance of critical laboratory values and their role in preventing life-threatening situations, highlighting the historical development of a systematic approach to manage these values. Topics include the implementation of the original critical value system at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, the contributions of Dr. Sol Bernstein to laboratory utilization, and the broader sociologic and economic factors influencing this advancement in the 1960s.

Published
2024

2. Mathematical Fluency: The Nature of Practice and the Role of Subordination.

Author

Hewitt, Dave

Abstract

Considers traditional ways in which attempts have been made to help students become fluent in mathematics and offers a model for ways in which fluency can be achieved with a more economic use of students' time and effort than through traditional models of exercises based on repetition. (MKR)

Published
1996

3. Language, Arithmetic, and the Negotiation of Meaning.

Author

Anghileri, Julia

Abstract

Limitations in children's understanding of the symbols of arithmetic may inhibit choice of appropriate solution procedures. The teacher's role involves negotiation of new meanings for words and symbols to match extensions to solution procedures. (MKR)

Published
1995

4. Symbol Sense: Informal Sense-Making in Formal Mathematics.

Author

Arcavi, Abraham

Abstract

Attempts to describe a notion parallel to number sense, called symbol sense, incorporating the following components: making friends with symbols, reading through symbols, engineering symbolic expressions, equivalent expressions for non-equivalent meanings, choice of symbols, flexible manipulation skills, symbols in retrospect, and symbols in context. (24 references) (MKR)

Published
1994

5. An Interpolation Approach to Developing Mathematical Functions for Business Simulations.

Author

Goosen, Kenneth R. and Kusel, Jimie

Abstract

Presents an interpolation methodology that duplicates and improves the results of mathematical functional relationships useful for designing business enterprise simulations and argues that interpolation is effective over the entire range of production and sales activity. (six references) (EA)

Published
1993