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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Patient risk"”.
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A Patient Risk Minimization Model for Post-Disaster Medical Delivery Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems
… existing vehicle routing models by using patient risk as the primary minimization variable.</p> <p>The vehicle routing problem is a subset of operational research that utilizes mathematical models to identify the most efficient route between sets of points. Routing studies using unmanned …
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A quantitative approach to patient risk assessment and safety optimization in intensive care units
Health care quality and patient safety has gained an increasing amount of attention for the past two decades. The quality of care nowadays does not only refer to successful cure of diseases for patients, but a much broader concept involving health care community, inter-relationships among care …
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Comparison Of Surgeon Perception Of Preoperative Patient Risk With The Acs Nsqip® Surgical Risk Calculator
… <p>Surgeon perception of surgical risk varies. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP®) Surgical Risk Calculator (SRC) estimates risk of postoperative outcomes and can assist with communicating risks to patients preoperatively. We …
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Sessile serrated lesions in focus: Examining temporal trends, patient risk factors, and the role of the endoscopist in lesion detection
… their classification and associated malignant risk due to varied nomenclature, evolving pathological criteria, and ongoing research in prognostication. A specific subtype, sessile serrated lesions (SSLs), are of particular interest, as they are the most prevalent premalignant subtype and are …
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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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A Manufacturing Process for Single Micron Resolution Optical Gratings Used in X-ray Computed Tomography
… promise to produce better results while reducing patient risk. One of these developments calls for precise optical gratings that can be expensive and difficult to manufacture. This paper presents a simple process developed specifically for the production of these gratings using cost effective …
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Essays on the health economics of hospital quality
… of three essays on hospital quality of inpatient care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the United States. First, it explores issues in the measurement of quality, particularly through the estimation of risk-adjusted mortality rates (RAMRs) for hospitals. This work …
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Deep Learning MRI-based Model for Prediction of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer
… resonance imaging (MRI) is being used as a risk assessment tool, before more invasive prostate biopsies are performed for patients at suspicion of prostate cancer. We hypothesize that we can train a deep learning model that combines multi-parametric MRI images with clinical factors to …
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Association of adverse cardiovascular outcomes with weighted morphologic variability following non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes
Patients who have had an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are at a relatively high risk of having subsequent adverse cardiac events. Several electrocardiographic (ECG) measures such as heart rate variability, heart rate turbulence, deceleration capacity, T-wave altemans, and morphologic variability …
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Informatics Intervention for Self-Management of Pain after TBI
… quality of life, there is a need to detect at-risk patients for persistent pain following TBI. This would enable development of interventions and rehabilitation services to ensure maximum post-injury recovery (Selassie, 2008). The purpose of this study is to fill a knowledge gap by first …
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Fall Prevention: Responder 5 Bed Connectors
… Falls are a major contributor to negative patient outcomes and a source of financial strain for hospitals. One particular fall prevention intervention, Responder 5 bed alarms, was explored. A literature review on falls was conducted to study the effectiveness of bed alarms. Capezuti et al. …
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Association Between Nurse Staffing Indicators, Patient Falls, and Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers in the Acute Care Setting
… perceptions of staffing and resources adequacy, patient falls, and hospital acquired pressure ulcers.</p> <p><strong>Design:</strong> A non-experimental, descriptive, correlational design using secondary data was used.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> The study took place at a large metropolitan …
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Development of an intracoronary Raman spectroscopy
… not completely understood, it is believed that patient risk depends on a variety of factors including lesion structure, biomechanical behavior, and morphological and chemical composition. Raman spectroscopy, based on spectral analysis of inelastically scattered photons, is a nondestructive …
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Signal detection for pediatric patient deterioration in simulation with nursing students : a mixed methods study
… the early stages of disease complication or patient deterioration, it is known as a failure to rescue (FTR). Pediatric patients in the hospital are at risk of being harmed or dying due to FTR. Pediatric patient deterioration detection poses a different challenge because pediatric patients …
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Improving Outpatient Medication Reconciliation And Reducing Adverse Drug Events: Development Of A New Process
… Prescribed medications can pose risks to patient safety. In the United States, persons aged over 65 account for nearly 450,000 annual emergency department (ED) visits, and they are seven times more likely to require hospital admission than younger persons (Centers for Disease …
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Risk Factors Associated with Pressure Ulcers Among Older Adults in the Emergency Department
… study will review and discuss the importance of risk assessment tool to evaluate patient risk predictor for developing pressure ulcer and skin assessment at the early stage of admission in the emergency department.</p> <p>This study is a retrospective convenience chart review of 86 elderly …
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Data Augmentation and Machine Learning for Risk Assessment in Healthcare Associated Infections
… results of this interdisciplinary work improve patient risk stratification and lead to targeted infection prevention and control interventions. This Thesis addresses these two issues with two main contributions: analytics technique designed to display pathways and common patterns in a sequence …
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Factors associated with increased suicidal intent among deliberate self-harm patients treated in the emergency room of an urban hospital in South Africa
… and clinical factors associated with high risk of serious self-harm or suicide, may be useful for improving patient care and strengthening appropriate referral pathways. Aim: To determine the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with elevated levels of suicidal intent among …
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Wearable Medical Device Ecosystems Through Machine Learning and Cloud Computing
… needs of many noncommunicable disease (NCD) patient groups, particularly in low- and middleincome countries. However, recent trends in soft, wearable medical devices and cloud technologies offer a possible alternative to traditional in-person clinical monitoring. Soft sensors interfaced via a …
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Development of a Novel Validated Tool for Predicting Patient Adherence to Prescribed Medication
Patient nonadherence to medication harms patient outcomes and raises costs via wasted and unnecessary treatment (Osterberg and Blaschke, 2005). However, current adherence measures are far from optimal (Vitolins et al., 2000), and adherence enhancing interventions rarely successful (Haynes et al., …
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