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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Medical databases"”.
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Information exchange between medical databases through automated identification of concept equivalence
… of exchanging information between heterogeneous medical databases remains one of the chief obstacles in achieving a unified patient medical record. Although methods have been developed to address differences in data formats, system software, and communication protocols, automated data exchange …
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Improved access to large medical databases for clinical research and quality improvement
Computerized medical databases are now commonplace in healthcare environments. Information is routinely stored for each clinical encounter, be it an inpatient, outpatient, telephone, or even computer-based interaction. In the past, the vast majority of this data concerned the demographic and …
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Enhancing association rules algorithms for mining distributed databases. Integration of fast BitTable and multi-agent association rules mining in distributed medical databases for decision support.
… information in these huge amounts of distributed databases. In this research, we present an incremental approach for building an efficient Multi-Agent based algorithm for mining real world databases in geographically distributed sites. First, we propose the Distributed Multi-Agent Association …
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A system for automated lexical mapping
Merging of clinical systems and medical databases, or aggregation of information from disparate databases, frequently requires a process where vocabularies are compared and similar concepts are mapped. Using a normalization phase followed by a novel alignment stage inspired by DNA sequence …
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Comprehensive Investigation on Content-based Medical Image Retrieval using Radon Barcodes
Content Based Medical Image Retrieval (CBMIR) systems are vital to the underlying operation of medical databases because they allow quick search and retrieval of medical images. Radon Barcode (RBC)s are binary complementary feature vectors which increase the speed of CBMIR systems through smaller …
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Probabilistic network models for cardiovascular monitoring
… for summarizing population statistics from medical databases. These networks can then be used to estimate unobservable variables of interest. We propose and test several networks of varying complexity on both a set of experimental porcine data, and a set of real ICU patient data. We find …
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Prehospital pain management in mass casualty scenarios: a scoping review
… literature search was conducted across major medical databases (PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Scopus, and Web of Science) and grey literature repositories, covering studies published from 2005 to 2024. Inclusion criteria encompassed English-language studies addressing prehospital pain …
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Causal Inference Methods for Estimation of Survival and General Health Status Measures of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
… and analyzing one of the largest high-quality medical databases containing millions of de-identified electronic health records obtained from over 110 health systems in the United States. We also analyzed demographic variables, preexisting conditions, and drug treatments. Our results show that …
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Coloniality, Violence, and Intergenerational Trauma among Displaced Syrians
… of twelve psychological, sociological, and medical databases, and additional results from a grey literature search. No results fully addressed the research question, but eight results partially addressed it and were included in the analysis. Five of the results linked displacement/MENA …
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Risk assessment and mortality prediction in patients with venous thromboembolism using big data and machine learning.
… electronic health records, open-source big- data medical databases and machine learning, predictive modelling could be utilized and become a powerful tool to guide clinical decision. The aim of the study was to explore the use and performance of various machine learning algorithms (ML) in order to …
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Health related quality of life, perceptions and experiences of female patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in South Africa: exploring unmet needs using a mixed methods approach
… Methods: A literature search was conducted on medical databases using MeSH terms pertaining to HRQoL amongst SLE patients in the developing or low income countries to identify articles published between January 1975 and February 2018. The main study included 25 consenting SLE patients attending …
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Drug allergy in veterinary medicine awareness, incidence, and clinical characteristics
… suggests a lack of training in veterinary medical school and a lack of information in the literature about veterinary drug allergy. Importantly, the survey also highlights the interest of the participants to learn more on the subject. We conducted a tiered keyword search of the two clinical …
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Διάγνωση, πρόγνωση και υποστήριξη θεραπευτικής αγωγής κακοηθών λεμφωμάτων με χρήση τεχνητής νοημοσύνης
… Λειτουργικό Συνδυασμό Βιο-Ιατρικών δεδομένων (BioMedical data integration). Ξεκινώντας από τη σχεδιαστική ανάλυση της ιατρικής γνώσης και των προβλημάτων που προκύπτουν από τον τρόπο παραγωγής των ιατρικών δεδομένων, προχωρεί στην επίλυση των επιμέρους θεμάτων Λειτουργικού Συνδυασμού εντός ενός …