Marginal inference for waiting times in multi-stage time-to-event models is complicated by right censoring of observations as well as the prior history of events in the model. In general, complications arise due to the evolution of the censoring...
Medical appointments and schedules; Simulation methods
Healthy for Life is a relatively new University of Louisville medical clinic which attempts to stem the epidemic of childhood obesity. This program offers a range of face-to-face services for overweight children. The main problem addressed by this...
Hospital care--Computer simulation; Hospitals--Computer simulation; Medical appointments and schedules
With more and more attention surrounding healthcare, Industrial Engineers have championed the task to help hospitals and outpatient centers operate as efficiently as possible. Simulation is often used to analyze hospital performance measures. The...
A common research interest in medical, biological, and engineering research is determining whether certain independent variables are correlated with the survival or failure times. Standard statistical techniques cannot usually be applied for...
The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the feasibility of interhospital patient transfers (within a hospital corporation referred to as NESW Hospital Co.) as a means of reducing emergency department overcrowding. Customer satisfaction...
Personnel scheduling is a problem faced by many organizations in the healthcare industry,
particularly in rapidly developing outpatient centers. The task of creating a schedule that
adequately covers patient demand while satisfying the preferences...
Externalizing behavior problems in very young children are associated with an array of negative and costly long-term outcomes. Pediatric primary care is a promising venue for implementing screening practices to improve early identification of this...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Houses; Porches; Men; Women
Six people stand on the porch of a house on Montana Avenue smiling. Water surrounds the house as far as the eye can see. Photograph was taken in the early afternoon.
Portrait of Eugene Atkinson of Louisville, Kentucky and Levine McLaughlin standing at an election table, reading papers and waiting. Handwritten on back of image: Member of Jefferson County Board of Election Commissioners. Stamped on back: August...
Women; Beaches; Lakes & ponds; Waterfronts; Dogs; Trees
A young woman and a dog stand next to two small trees looking out at Lake Michigan. She has her hand on the dog's neck and gulls fly overhead. Handwritten on album page in photographer Kate Matthews' hand: "Waiting". Inscribed on first...
Address: Waterfront, Louisville, Kentucky. Men haul nets as two horses stand waiting. The horses are attached to a cart that says "Standard Oil Co." on the side. A pallet near the water includes a Coca-Cola box. A steamboat on the Ohio...
Transportation; Street railroads; Automobiles; Streets; Stores & shops
Address: Market and Sixth Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Streetcar 805 travels down Market Street and begins to cross Sixth Street. A truck from the Belknap Company waits while an officer oversees the intersection. A group of people is standing in...
Automobile service stations; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Buildings; Transportation
The Gulf Refining Company service station has a sign reading, "That Good Gulf Gasoline." There is a line of cars waiting to get into the station. Neighboring houses appear to be 1 1/2 or two stories. Utility poles line the street.
In this day when the erstwhile plebian hog has taken to scaling the social ladder and has climbed beyond the ken of many an honest workman, it behooves the housewife to wage, with double zeal the warfare on our rivals, the molds, yeasts and...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; University of Louisville--Buildings; Interiors; Passageways; Office workers; Rain; Streets; University of Louisville--Employees
Digital video shot during the rainfall, starts in the basement of the Houchens Building as photographer splashes down flooded hallway and then walks up the stairs. People stand scattered around the first level of the building waiting for the rain...
The "Tarascon," built in 1863 for the Louisville and Henderson Mail Line, was used in service during the Civil War. Here the boat sits at the Louisville & Portland Canal waiting for the locks to open. It traveled as far as the Alabama...
The "Tarascon," built in 1863 for the Louisville and Henderson Mail Line, was used in service during the Civil War. Here the boat sits at the Louisville & Portland Canal waiting for the locks to open. It traveled as far as the Alabama...
Portraits; Men; Women; Lawyers; Government officials; Partisan politics; Political conventions
Robert H. Lucas of Louisville, Kentucky, shaking hands with Dolly Gann. A lawyer, he served as U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue in Kentucky from 1921-1929, and as national Commissioner of Internal Revenue in Washington, D.C. from 1929-1930, and...
