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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Medicine, clinical"”.
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A perioperative medicine clinical decision support system: foundation, design, development, evaluation, and the standards
… the perioperative period are often made based on clinical anecdotes and vary by provider. Clinical decision support (CDS) tools aid physicians with decision making tasks at the point of care. We have developed a set of perioperative medication management recommendation decision heuristics based on …
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Understanding standing
… Theoretical issues are related to rehabilitation medicine, clinical techniques, and pedagogical strategy. The rich empirical basis of movement re-education approaches serves as the basis for new research questions and offers clues to rethinking how learning occurs.
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Development of an ontology of animals in context within the OBO Foundry framework from a SNOMED-CT extension and subset
… and subset of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine — Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT). The principles of the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry were followed and freely available tools were used. ACO includes normal development and physiologic animal classes as well animal …
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Systematically and proactively testing variant effects for AIRE and SOD1
Despite the potential for personalized genomic medicine, clinical geneticists are often unable to determine the pathogenicity of rare variants in disease-associated genes. Under current guidelines, one of the strongest forms of evidence for variant annotation comes from (often cell-based) …
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Burning Mouth Syndrome: a demographic and comorbid condition case series
… with an substantial uncertainty regarding the clinical presentation, etiologic factors, and descriptive characterization of the condition. Purpose: Characterize our BMS population and identify most common demographic and comorbid conditions. Methods: Case Series: Retrospective Chart Review, …
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Extensions of SNOMED taxonomy abstraction networks supporting auditing and complexity analysis
The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine -- Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) has been widely used as a standard terminology in various biomedical domains. The enhancement of the quality of SNOMED contributes to the improvement of the medical systems that it supports. In previous work, the Structural …
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"treating the whole person:" an ethnographic study of an integrative medicine pain clinic
… 2009; Good 1994; Greenhalgh 2001; Institute of Medicine 2011; Kleinman 1988; National Center for Health Statistics-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006). This ethnographic study describes in-depth how a Detroit metropolitan area multidisciplinary pain clinic specifically applies an …
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Considerations for Automating Salmonella Serovar Identification within an Electronic Public Health Reporting Environment
… curated by the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®). Translating the serotype formula of a Salmonella isolate to the correct identifier has been a multistep manual process for users. Our goal was to determine whether a degree of automation could be achieved using …
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Descriptive analysis of the musculoskeletal case load referred for ultrasound imaging in an Auckland imaging practice : a case study
… ultrasound is a tool that can be used to inform clinical practice by aiding diagnosis of musculoskeletal conditions. To date, there appears to be just one study investigating referral protocols for musculoskeletal ultrasound. AIM: The aim was to identify the descriptive characteristics of cases …
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Use of chart review tool and peer feedback to influence physician prescribing of controlled substances
… of volunteer primary care physicians and a clinical pharmacist, developed a CRT to assess compliance with a primary care clinic’s controlled substance prescribing policy and effectiveness of therapy. The CRT was based on existing clinic policies and American Pain Society/American Academy of …
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Matryoshka genetics: identification of disease-associated mutations in the human genome
… the human genome, specifically in the context of clinical medicine. It is principally a publication-based thesis, with each of the chapters focusing on the use of a specific molecular technique or combination of techniques to address a particular clinical question, or clinical need. Indeed …
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Data Standardization and Machine Learning Models for Histopathology
… for a variety of decisions. In some areas of medicine, decision-support models are capable of assisting healthcare practitioners in making accurate diagnoses. In this work we explored the application of these techniques to distinguish between two diseases in veterinary medicine; inflammatory …
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Structural indicators for effective quality assurance of snomed ct
The Standardized Nomenclature of Medicine -- Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT -- further abbreviated as SCT) has been endorsed as a premier clinical terminology by many national and international organizations. The US Government has chosen SCT to play a significant role in its initiative to promote …
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Psychosomatic aspects on diabetes and chronic pain Alexithymia, depression and salivary cortisol The Affect School and Script Analysis Therapy
This thesis explores links between psyche and soma in diabetes and in chronic benign pain (CBP). Interventions with Affect School and Script Analysis (ASSA) compared to Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) are tried. In a feasibility and treatment efficacy study we offered ASSA to 59 patients with …
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MANAGING DRUG USE IN THE ELDERLY. General practitioners’ adherence to guidelines and patients’ conceptions of medication
… Older patients’ knowledge about their medicines is generally poor. Patients are entitled to be informed on an individual and adequate level. Evidence-based guidelines should, in most cases, be followed also in the treatment of elderly to avoid suboptimal treatment, for example for …
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Aggrecan fragments as biomarkers in osteoarthritis
Background: In osteoarthritis (OA) the balance of cartilage matrix synthesis and degradation is disturbed, resulting in a gradual destruction of the articular cartilage. Matrix components released into body fluids by proteolytic cleavage can be used as biomarkers of ongoing processes. This thesis …
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