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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Patient diagnoses"”.
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Differences of weekend versus weekdays, nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, patient diagnoses, and direct nursing care time
… care time on weekends versus weekdays, nurse-to-patient ratios, medical-surgical nursing units, and weekend versus weekday patient diagnoses. Specific aims were (a) determine differences in nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and direct care time on medical-surgical inpatient units in an acute care …
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Modeling document classification to automate mental health diagnosis
… field to automatically classify different patient diagnosis based on medical or patient notes. This research applied mental health diagnosis documents to automatically diagnose a group of patients with a mental health condition based on text-based survey data. This classification was …
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Context identification in electronic medical records
… Examination Documents or Discharge Summaries), patient diagnoses and department influenced the accuracy of identification. Future improvements suggested by the results in order to fully outline the approach were described.
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Diagnosis based specialist identification in the hospital
… training and staffing and provide confidence to patients that their providers have the experience needed to address their problems. This work evaluates how machine learning classifiers can be trained on treatment histories to recognize medical specialties. Such classifiers can be used to evaluate …
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Statistical Methods For The Analysis And Development Of Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers
… biomarker measurements that can guide patient diagnoses or treatment decisions while minimizing information loss associated with dimension reduction. This dissertation is focused on (1) exploring methods for analyzing previously developed imaging biomarkers and (2) developing new …
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Description of Medical-Surgical Nurses Care of Patients at Risk for Pressure Ulcers
… PU prevention measures in nurses caring for patients in medical-surgical units. Method: The study was conducted in three (3) community hospitals within the same healthcare system using an Interpretive Description approach. Six (6) focus groups were conducted including thirty (30) …
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Diagnostic accuracy of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin, compared with composite reference standards, to discriminate between tuberculosis, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia in HIV-infected inpatients meeting WHO criteria for seriously ill
… tuberculosis, CAP, and PJP in HIV-infected inpatients. We performed a cross-sectional study on secondary data to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of Creactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin compared to composite reference standards, for discrimination between the three target infections in …
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Essays on health economics and technology adoption
… and intensity of care delivered to Medicare inpatients. Building an organizational model, I show how the adoption of HIT may improve patient health and may either increase or decrease medical expenditures. Using Medicare claims data from 1998-2005, I estimate the effects of HIT by exploiting …
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Ambulatory biopotential measurement
… during daily activities and the relation to patient symptoms may be important factors for clinical decision-making. Ambulatory monitoring helps to monitor the biopotential signal of a patient in the natural environment. The effective ambulatory system can help a physician to diagnose the …
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Effects of a Mental-Health Clinical Simulation Experience Using Standardized Patients and Two Debriefing Styles on Prelicensure Nursing Students' Knowledge, Anxiety, and Therapeutic Communication and Psychiatric Assessment Skills
… using student volunteers as standardized patients.</p> <p>The simulation strategy was a formative experience designed to introduce students to psychiatric assessment while concurrently providing a forum to practice therapeutic communication. The simulations replicated common patient …
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NOVEL DATA MINING ALGORITHMS FOR ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
… health records (EHRs) to store information about patient treatment to support patient care management and securely share health information among healthcare organizations. EHRs have also been used in healthcare research in problems such as patient phenotyping, health risk prediction, and medical …
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The use of knowledge discovery databases in the identification of patients with colorectal cancer
… most common forms of malignancy with 35,000 new patients diagnosed annually within the UK. Survival figures show that outcomes are less favourable within the UK when compared with the USA and Europe with 1 in 4 patients having incurable disease at presentation as of data from 2000.Epidemiologists …