Hospital rating may not show death rate AP via Yahoo! News
New research offers this warning to consumers shopping for top-notch hospitals: Many that are highly rated by government regulators only have marginally lower patient death rates.
House panel for 9.5% EPF rate The Statesman
Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Dec. 12: The Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Union labour ministry has told the government that the EPF interest rate should not be lower than 9.5 per cent, and the government should refrain from taking any decision on the issue without evolving a consensus.
Novel Implanted Heart Device Designed to Treat Effects of Heart Failure to Be Considered By Medical Device Dispute Panel RedNova
Acorn Cardiovascular: WHAT: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will convene a Medical Device Dispute Resolution Panel (MDDRP) on Dec. 15 to consider the first device to specifically treat enlarged hearts and potentially reduce heart failure progression.
Angiotech Announces Closing of Senior Floating Rate Notes Due 2013 T-Net British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, December 12, 2006--(T-Net)--Angiotech Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ANPI, TSX: ANP) today announced that it has closed the previously announced sale of US $325 million in aggregate principal amount of its senior floating rate notes due 2013 in a private placement.
Hospital Rating May Not Show Death Rate ABC News
Hospital Ratings on Health Compare Site Fall Short in Comparing Death Rates, Study Says
Hospital Rating May Not Show Death Rate AP via Yahoo! Asia News
New research offers this warning to consumers shopping for top-notch hospitals.
Kidney Care Partners Applauds Congress' Approval of an Inflation Adjustment for Kidney Patient Dialysis Services U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News
Kidney Care Partners (KCP) a nationwide coalition of patient advocates, dialysis providers, physicians, nurses and manufacturers working together to improve the quality of care for individuals with kidney failure applauds the United States Congress for approving a 1.6 percent composite rate update for dialysis services and a provision mandating a home dialysis study. KCP thanks the leaders of
Seven officials suspended after high failure rate SABC News
The North West education department has suspended seven senior officials in the Bophirima region. This comes after learners at Kgononyane and Huhudi High schools failed their end-of-the-year examinations.
Fed May Signal Inflation Is Still the Greater Threat Update1 Bloomberg.com
Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve policy makers will probably leave their benchmark interest rate unchanged today and signal the economy isn't slowing enough to diminish the risk of higher inflation.
In some cases, nothing succeeds like failure Boston Globe
Gustave Manso , a Brazilian-born finance professor who joined the faculty at MIT's Sloan School of Management this fall, is researching a problem that's not always considered a priority in executive suites: how to reward failure.

Statistics over IT Failure Rate
Statistics over IT project failure rate provide a good measure of those chances. The following surveys provide statistical data over the rate of failure
Failure rate
Failure rate. A measurement, in percentage, of the total number of defects detected divided by the total number of samples observed.
Failure Frequency Versus Failure Rate - Relex Feature Article
Feature article on failure frequency versus failure rate defining the basic difference between failure frequency and failure rate is in the condition for
Reliability Prediction to Calculate Failure & Calculating MTBF
You then just need to enter the "operating" parameters of your components, such as operating temperature to perform a reliability predictions, failure rate
Apple: iPod failure rate ‘extremely low’
what exactly does a failure rate of 5% mean? it’s kind of ambiguous. Frankly, I doubt Apple’s iPod defect/failure rate is any worse (or better,
Availability Analysis through Relations Between Failure Rate and
Between Failure Rate and Preventive Maintenance under Condition Monitoring. Ding Jinhua between failure rate, scheduled preventive maintenance and
Failure Rate -- from Wolfram MathWorld
and nurtured by Eric Weisstein with contributions from the world's mathematical community · Probability and Statistics > Probability. Failure Rate
Schneier on Security: Airport Screeners Still Aren't Any Good
But perversely, even a mediocre success rate here is probably good enough: They already had training and this is the result, wholesale failure.
Restaurant Failure Rate Much Lower Than Commonly Assumed, Study Finds
In fact, the alleged 90 percent failure rate was repeated during each He calculated failure rate for the restaurants for a three-year period, 1996-1999.
What is call failure rate? - a definition from Whatis.com - see
The call failure rate (CFR) is the percentage of calls to an ISP or any network provider that fail to get through. The CFR is commonly used as a statistical