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Showing 1 to 20 of 363 for “"Clinical decision"”.
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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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Clinical decision-making and client sexual orientation
… there is a dearth of information regarding the decisions therapists are making when working with asexual clients and how these decisions compare to clients with other sexual orientations. Results of previous studies provide evidence of clinicians’ sexual prejudice, including endorsement of …
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Clinical Decision Making of Rural Novice Nurses
… was to develop substantive theory regarding decision making by the novice nurse in a rural hospital setting. Interviews were guided by the following research questions: What cues were used by novice rural registered nurses in order to make clinical decisions? What were the sources of feedback …
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Query Expansion Study for Clinical Decision Support
… precision of the selected dataset from the TREC clinical decision support track are low. The overriding objective of this thesis is to improve the performance of information retrieval techniques applied to biomedical text documents. We have focused on improving recall and precision among the top …
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The effect of a mobile clinical decision support application on clinical decision-making skills and satisfaction in undergraduate nursing students
Clinical decision-making is an essential nursing skill that undergraduate nursing students struggle to develop. This dissertation comprises two manuscripts focusing on mobile clinical decision support (mCDS) resources in undergraduate student nurses: a systematic literature review and an empirical …
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AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Support for Oral Disease Detection
… categories, positioning it as a viable tool for clinical applications. Beyond clinical practice, AI-driven dental diagnostics offer significant public health benefits, particularly in rural and underserved areas where access to specialized dental care is limited. The ability to automate …
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An ontological and epistemological paradigm for clinical decision support
… the central hypothesis that the paradigm for clinical decision support needs to shift from a technology centred paradigm to a coherent ontological-epistemological paradigm. This was achieved by formalising a coherent ontological and epistemological framework, and then applying it practically …
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Anticipating, Extracting, and Leveraging Information in Clinical Decision-Making
A principal challenge in machine learning for clinical decision support is the limited availability of high-quality data: Experimental data is hard to acquire and hence scarce, while observational data from the clinic is more abundant but may contain unintended biases. Given that available data is …
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Using EMR transactional data for personalize clinical decision support
… information could be added to traditional clinical decision support tools to arrive at personalized recommendations based on empiric evidence. The aim of this work is to use the collective, de facto, clinical experience to augment clinical guidelines thereby providing physicians with …
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Clinical decision making by beginning nurses: a naturalistic study
The ability to make accurate clinical decisions and implement appropriate nursing interventions is an essential component of nursing practice. Clinical decision making is the process nurses use to gather information about patients, evaluate it and make judgments that result in the provision of …
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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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The Use of Clinical Decision Support to Improve Nursing Practice
… positive impact on patient outcomes persists. Clinical decision support (CDS) is an informatics tool that is highly customizable to promote patient improvement activities. Despite its high potential, studies have had mixed results regarding the impact of CDS and it has not been widely studied …
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Data fusion techniques for biomedical informatics and clinical decision support
… be applied at the raw-data, feature-based, and decision-based levels. Data fusion applications of different sorts have been built up in areas such as statistics, computer vision and other machine learning aspects. It has been employed in a variety of realistic scenarios such as medical …
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Critical Thinking Disposition and Clinical Decision Making of Emergency Nurses
… 연구 도구는 윤진(2004)의 비판적 사고성향도구와 Jenkins(1985)의 The Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Scale을 백미경(2004)이 번안하여 수정한 도구를 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS WIN 18.0을 이용하여 분석하였다.
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Natural Language Processing as a Tool in Supporting Clinical Decision-Making
… text data continues to grow within the clinical domain, little modelling is carried out in comparison to other industries. My research goal in this thesis is to present machine learning models that can effectively discern the relationships within medical notes, tying symptoms and other …
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A semantics-first approach to safe guidelines-based clinical decision support
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Improving clinical decision making with natural language processing and machine learning
… to electronic health records (EHRs) to improve clinical decision making. The first task was to predict cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) outcomes with better precision than the current physician guidelines for recommending the procedure. We combined NLP features from free-text physician …
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A system approach to augment clinical decision-making using machine learning
… changes clinicians can make to improve their decision making-augmented 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 …
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An Assessment of Clinical Decision Making Skills Across a Physical Therapy Curriculum
… an objective that graduates will be competent in clinical decision making. As students progress through the curriculum, and out into the profession, clinical decision making skills should increase. The problem is assessing these skills. The purpose of this research was to assess the clinical …
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