Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Massachusetts General Hospital."”.
-
Predicting surgical inpatients' discharges at Massachusetts General Hospital
… which patients might be ready to leave the hospital and what are the barriers that may delay their discharge. This project aims to improve MGHs bed management processes by introducing a predictive model (based on neural network) that identifies, in real time, surgical inpatients discharges …
-
Predicting medicine inpatient discharges at Massachusetts General Hospital
At Massachusetts General Hospital, inpatients often experience significant non-clinical delays in patient care, and frequently wait in the Emergency Department or in inpatient-floor hallways before receiving bed assignments. Such delays result in overcrowding in the Emergency Department, heightened …
-
Congestion reduction in the Emergency Department of Massachusetts General Hospital
The MGH Emergency Department (ED) and General Medicine Floor currently experience heavy patient volume and rising patient wait times, despite recent capacity expansions. While several projects have been piloted to divert patients towards alternative care paths, MGH management wants to better …
-
Routine Post-Procedure Recovery (RPPR) patients at Massachusetts General Hospital
… as Routine Post-Procedure Recovery (RPPR) in Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Strategies were developed by analyzing the trade-offs in resource utilization of alternative recovery pathways. The unstandardized way in which the RPPR category is currently used creates a suboptimal …
-
Locational factors in hospital utilization: a case study of Massachusetts General Hospital.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
-
Characterization, prediction, and mitigation of Code Help events at Massachusetts General Hospital
… triggered by the Emergency Department (ED) at Massachusetts General Hospital, attempts to predict the incidence of these alarms using logistic regression, and proposes operational recommendations for the mitigation of congestion events termed Code Help. In order to characterize Code Help …
-
Reducing a voidable admissions through the Emergency Department at Massachusetts General Hospital
… five years ago, the Emergency Department (ED) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is again displaying consistent and serious symptoms of overreacting, including rising patient wait times and routine activation of capacity-related emergency management protocols. As MGH grapples with these …
-
Managing variability to improve quality, capacity and cost in the perioperative process at Massachusetts General Hospital
… true. The results of this project, performed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), demonstrate that more sophisticated management of health care processes will lead to greater capacity and higher quality at lower cost. This work includes system-level analysis of surgical patient flow and …
-
Techniques for the characterization of sedation due to opiate administration
… during opiate sedation for applications in general anesthesia and drug overdose. Under this central topic, three themes are developed: characterizing the neural signature associated with altered consciousness due to opiate administration, characterizing the diminished respiration and …
-
Building dependability arguments for software intensive systems
… the Burr Proton Therapy Center, operating at Massachusetts General Hospital, and on the Pret a Voter cryptographic voting system, developed at the University of Newcastle.
-
Ultracompact superconducting isochronous cyclotron production of ¹³N for positron emission tomography applications
… of Nitrogen-13 was validated by experiment at Massachusetts General Hospital. Both absolute and relative activity calculations were conducted utilizing an original MATLAB script; it is demonstrated that relative activity calculations are both more accurate and precise. The DAQ system …
-
American pain: The sentimental, the lyrical, the medical, the realistic
… after the advent of surgical ether in 1846 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston offers a remarkable “turn” within the inquiry into pain and its representation. The question then becomes: How did certain literary modes of representation—the sentimental, the lyrical, the medical, the …
-
Determining patterns of cancer drug resistance from autopsy patients
… death) conducted on cancer patients through the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Rapid Autopsy Program. The dataset of whole-exome, whole genome and transcriptome sequencing data from advanced cancer samples uniquely captures genomic and transcriptomic information from multiple lesions of the …
-
A study of the use of immunohistochemical stains in an academic hospital
… the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), hospitals are under increased pressure to understand and control cost and quality of care. While there are good metrics for primary care physicians on controlling cost and measuring quality (i.e. tracking glucose levels in a diabetic patient), those …
-
Monte Carlo simulation of neutron shielding for proton therapy facilities
… of the Northeast Proton Therapy Center (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA) was used as the basis of the design work. A geometrical model of the facility was simulated using the LAHET Code System, a set of Monte Carlo codes developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Additional …
-
Learning classifiers from medical data
… had been operated on by Dr. David Rattner of the Massachusetts General Hospital. C5.0 is an algorithm that learns decision trees from data while SVMLight learns support vector machines from the data. With both techniques we performed cross-validation analysis and both failed to produce acceptable …
-
Automating comprehensive literature review of cancer risk journal articles
Recently, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute built a calculator that estimates risk of cancer based on genetic mutations. The calculator requires a lot of high quality data from medical journals, which is laborious to obtain by hand. In this …
-
Increasing patient throughput in the MGH Cancer Center Infusion Unit
… that increases the effective capacity of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Infusion Unit. Currently, chair and bed utilization in the Infusion Unit is concentrated between 10am-2pm, Monday through Friday, but remains underutilized during other operating hours. This uneven use of …
-
Improving outpatient non-oncology infusion through centralization and scheduling heuristics
… improvements in patients' quality-of- life. At Massachusetts General Hospital, these drugs are administered in ten independent outpatient clinics. While some clinics only need to offer sporadic treatments and have low utilization of resources, other clinics find patient access is severely …
-
Using EMR transactional data for personalize clinical decision support
… the Internal Medical Associates (IMA) clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) between July 2004 and September 2009. Their relevant clinical and demographic variables, drug regimens and blood pressure measurements were collected from the clinic's electronic medical record system and a …
Page 1 of 3