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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Clinical Decisions"”.
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Tackling Key Challenges to Guide Clinical Decisions in Cardiovascular Diseases
… studied in a number of contexts ranging from clinical risk stratification to image-guided diagnosis and prognostication. Nevertheless, key challenges remain from both clinical and technical perspectives. In the case of prediction models, for example, predicting the occurrence of rare clinical …
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Learning to Improve Clinical Decisions and AI Safety by Leveraging Structure
… ML for health has great potential in providing clinical decision-making support that can improve quality of care and reduce healthcare spending by easing clinical operations. However, the successful development of ML models in healthcare is contingent on data that is complex, noisy, …
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Improving clinical decisions using correspondences within and across electronic health records
… learning in health care can be used to develop clinical decision-making aids and assess quality of care. This can help improve quality of care while lowering cost. In this thesis, we present three methods of using different kinds of data in health care records to aid clinicians in making care …
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CLINICAL DECISIONS OF MUSIC THERAPISTS IN THE TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH EATING DISORDERS
… to provide a synthesis and overview of current clinical practice and wisdom useful to students and clinical music therapists interested in working with this population or those interested in conducting intervention-based research to determine the impact of music-based interventions on the needs …
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Emergency Physicians' Perspectives on the Usability of Health Information Exchange
… do emergency physicians use the HIE in making clinical decisions?</p> <p>Rich and thick data were collected from 15 emergency physicians in four urban hospitals in the mid-south using theoretical sampling and unstructured face-to face interviews. Concepts from the coded segments were developed …
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A meta analysis of sexual orientation and clinical decision making
The impact of client variables on clinical decisions has long been part of the broader clinical judgment literature. Contrary to the empirical evidence supporting the existence of biased attitudes towards lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals, there is minimal empirical support displaying biased …
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Work of Breathing: Development of a Construct
… to assess a patient’s work of breathing and make clinical decisions based on their findings. There is currently no objective work of breathing assessment tool available. The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover how nurses conceptually describe and assess work of breathing and how they …
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Tests, Tests, and More Tests: A New Era for Dementia Diagnosis
… rate of cognitive decline, however their use in clinical settings is limited. Given their potential utility in identifying preclinical AD and in increasing diagnostic confidence in clinical settings, we sought to understand how clinicians use CSF biomarkers in conjunction with other clinical …
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A system approach to augment clinical decision-making using machine learning
… or not. This thesis includes (a) describing clinical decisions, informed by literature and clinical case studies and (b) reviewing current capabilities of machine methods. This led to (c) a test experiment-how to use data about a particular condition (e.g. in-hospital mortality rate …
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Fostering research uptake and evidence-use in applied clinical settings
… research in order to make the best clinical decisions possible. This paper presents a qualitative case study which tested and explored an existing physician-orientated literature synthesis website to see in what ways it was beneficial for non-physician practitioners as a resource …
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Vocabulary Assessment: A Comparison Between Clinical And Academic Measures
… Vocabulary Test-2 (EVT-2) (Williams, 2007), two clinically used vocabulary measures with established validity. Strong correlations would potentially allow for the use of the MAP vocabulary test when making clinical decisions. </p> <p>Pearson r correlations between EVT-2 and MAP vocabulary scores …
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Validating the therapy prediction model through a breakdown analysis on ICU patient medical records
… that explores the use of medical information in clinical practice. It searches for ways to effectively integrate as much information as is available to physicians when they make clinical decisions and represent the information in the most intelligent way possible. As part of an overall effort to …
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Clinical judgment bias in response to client sexual orientation and therapist heterosexuality identity development
… orientation and gender role on psychologists’ clinical judgment. A secondary purpose was to examine the extent that psychologist heterosexual identity development status affects the level of heterosexist judgment error displayed when working with lesbian and gay male clients. It was …
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The Decision to Use Eye Movement Integration Therapy: Exploring Clinicians' Experiences Through A Narrative Inquiry
… that the best source of evidence to guide clinical decisions comes from randomized control trials; however, many practicing clinicians view client outcomes, clinical experience and their feelings of confidence using an intervention as the best sources to make clinical decisions. In the …
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Computed Tomographic Studies of Characteristics of Selected Canine Lymph Nodes Relevant to Staging and Treatment of Solid Tumours
… was to provide information which could improve clinical decisions regarding the staging and radiation treatment of pelvic limb and caudal abdominal tumours in dogs. Specific objectives of this body of research were to describe the lymphatic drainage of the canine pelvic limb, characteristics of …
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The Influence of Patient Race and Socioeconomic Status on Providers' Assessment and Treatment Recommendations for Chronic Pain
… SES uniquely and interactively affect providers’ clinical decisions, but few studies have examined the influence of patient race and SES simultaneously on providers’ pain-related decisions. Furthermore, previous studies suggest that providers’ attitudes about race and SES influence their clinical …
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Demonstrating nurses' clinical decision-making
… question: 'How can nurses' properly considered decisions relating to patient care be demonstrated?' Nurses in the United Kingdom have a professional requirement to demonstrate': the properly considered clinical decisions relating to patient care' (UKCC, 1994; NMC, 2002). However, their …
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Timing of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction
… between timing from ACL rupture to surgery and clinical, functional and patient-reported outcomes. To explore the feasibility of collecting clinicians’ views on ACL reconstruction timing. Design and methods: A systematic review of five databases to identify studies investigating outcomes …
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Treatment Response Prediction in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients
… treatment response has the potential to impact clinical decisions. A prediction given at the time of diagnosis for treatment response can assist physicians in making effective treatment decisions and improving patient prognosis. This project aimed to develop methods that leverage domain …
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Assessment planning by speech language pathologists: Implicit bias and clinical decision-making
… articles focused on the topics of implicit bias, clinical-decision making, and cultural competency in the field of speech-language pathology. The first article is a reflection piece in which I thoughtfully lay out my journey towards cultural humility in addressing my biases through different …
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