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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Patient Admission"”.
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Logistical factors associated with adverse outcomes following emergency surgery in an acute care surgical unit
… audit which reviewed the folders of adult patients who underwent an emergency surgical procedure from July 2016 to July 2017. The primary outcome was a major adverse event (AE) which was defined by a Clavien-Dindo score of 3-5. A number of logistical factors related to patient admission and …
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HYBRID DEEP LEARNING AND RADIOMICS MODELS FOR ASSESSMENT OF CLINICALLY RELEVANT PROSTATE CANCER
… to revolutionize healthcare by providing every patient with personalized treatments and decisions tailored to his or her individual needs. This might be enabled by the large influx of potentially diagnostic information from new sources such as genetics and modern imaging techniques, provided the …
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An integrative predictive model for hospital acquired complications
… cause an approximately 10% increase in total inpatient hospital costs. With US hospital spending totaling nearly $900 billion per year, the tremendous damages caused by HACs is no small matter. Early detection and prevention of HACs could greatly reduce strains on the US healthcare system and …
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Improving Emergency Department Patient Flow Through Near Real-Time Analytics
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>IMPROVING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENT FLOW THROUGH NEAR REAL-TIME ANALYTICS</p> <p>This dissertation research investigates opportunities for developing effective decision support models that exploit near real-time (NRT) information to enhance the "operational intelligence" …
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Congestion reduction in the Emergency Department of Massachusetts General Hospital
… 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 understand what types of patients are being …
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Learning to prevent healthcare-associated infections : leveraging data across time and space to improve local predictions
… that will help healthcare providers improve patient outcomes. However, building useful models from these datasets presents many technical problems. Among the challenges are the large number of factors (both intrinsic and extrinsic) influencing a patient's risk of an adverse outcome, the …
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Trends in child maltreatment in the Northern Territory, using child protection reports and hospital admissions, 1999 to 2010.
… – child protection activity and hospital admissions. From child protection activity data, annual rates of notifications for Aboriginal children increased by an average of 21% per year (Incidence rate ratio (IRR) 1.21, 95%CI: 1.19-1.24) compared with a more modest increase among …
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Performance of a Process Evaluation System in Outpatient Hospital-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation
This study retrospectively evaluated patient records from two cardiac rehabilitation (CR) service centers located in large urban hospitals using a Process Evaluation System (PES) recently developed through a collaborative project of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary …
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Deprescribing Unnecessary Pantoprazole Prescribed by Hospitalists on Parkland Hospital Non-ICU Inpatient Floors
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