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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Secondary use"”.
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A Data Quality Framework for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Information
… available in electronic form, it is increasingly used for other purposes. This is expected to improve health outcomes for patients; however, the benefits will only be realized if the data that is captured in the EHR is of sufficient quality to support these secondary uses. This research …
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Enhancing Secondary-use of Electronic Health Records for Geospatial-temporal Population Health Research
… focus on three areas for building capacities to use of geospatial-temporal information to address population health needs. The aims are to: 1) assess information needs and priority use-cases for population health research in hydrologic disaster preparedness, 2) design spatiotemporal use-case …
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Informed consent and the secondary use of biospecimens in oncology research legal and bioethics perspectives
Biospecimens1 collected during routine oncology diagnostic and therapeutic interventions may be stored for future medical purposes. In accordance with legal and ethical principles, the patient provides informed consent for removal of the tissue for diagnostic or therapeutic reasons. Informed …
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A flexible, longitudinal and surrogate consent model: Consent of Infants for Neonatal Secondary-use research (CoINS) Model
… primarily identified through retrospective secondary use research. Research involving health data requires consent of the subject patient or someone with the power to speak on that patient’s behalf. Flexible consent models that capture consent preferences while allowing updates as …
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A Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) data warehouse as a resource for improving the quality of dementia care. Exploring requirements for secondary use of DCM data using a user-driven approach and discussing their implications for a data warehouse
The secondary use of Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) data, if that data were held in a data warehouse, could contribute to global efforts in monitoring and improving dementia care quality. This qualitative study identifies requirements for the secondary use of DCM data within a data warehouse using a …
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A Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) data warehouse as a resource for improving the quality of dementia care. Exploring requirements for secondary use of DCM data using a user-driven approach and discussing their implications for a data warehouse
The secondary use of Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) data, if that data were held in a data warehouse, could contribute to global efforts in monitoring and improving dementia care quality. This qualitative study identifies requirements for the secondary use of DCM data within a data warehouse using a …
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Computational studies of semiflexible polymer translocation in nanopore systems
… in detail. In collaboration with experiment, we use simulations to explore the dynamics of dsDNA in a nanofiltered nanopore device with potential applications in DNA sequencing technology. A secondary use for the nanofiltered nanopore device as an entropic cage for DNA is also examined. …
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TRUST: Clinical Text Retrieval and Use towards Scientific Rigor and Transparent Process
… from care data, one of which is through the use of chart review: a common, albeit manual, approach to practice-based knowledge discovery. Traditionally, chart review is performed by manually reviewing patient medical records. As a significant portion of clinical information is represented in …
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NOVEL APPROACHES TO FAST OCV CHARACTERIZATION AND IMPROVED CAPACITY ESTIMATION IN LITHIUM ION BATTERIES
… in li-ion batteries for battery reuse applications. The traditional approach to OCV-SOC characterization is done by collecting voltage and current data through a slow discharge and charge process; this process usually takes about 60 hours. Such OCV-SOC characterization is performed …
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The structure of attitude reports : representing context in grammar
… the recurring claim that there are clause peripheral elements that correspond to a kind of perspectival center is supported by novel evidence that this perspectival element can be overt in certain languages. This is shown using data from attitude reports in Tigrinya (Semitic, Eritrea), …
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Living online: an examination of Facebook’s scrapbook and life events features
… same features that allow Facebook to serve their users better may also be viewed as another tool in Facebook’s arsenal used to gain insights into the private lives of their customers, to gain more customers, and reduce uncertainty and risk about company resources. And while users may be viewed as …
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Bagasse as a Fuel for Combined Heat and Power (CHP): An Assessment of Options for Implementation in Iran.
… most important agricultural wastes, which can be used in different side industries. Therefore, it was chosen for study in this research as it offers considerable potential as a source of energy. Bagasse is often used as a primary fuel source for sugar mills; when burned in quantity, it produces …
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Doing the Dishes: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Late Bronze Age Ceramics Excavated from Hut 12 at Mokarta, Sicily
… for each vessel were discerned based on the use-relationships of the vessels, judging through form, technology, and use-alteration. The form of each vessel helped to determine use-related properties such as capacity, accessibility, stability, and transportability. The ceramic manufacturing, …
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Ironworking in late medieval Ireland, c. AD. 1200 to 1600
… production in blast-furnaces the size of a house. One of the great advantages of studying the archaeology of ironworking is that its main residue, slag, is often produced in copious amounts both during smelting and smithing, is virtually indestructible and has very little secondary use. This …
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Developing a Principles-Based Framework to Link the Governance of Genomics Research and Biobanking in Africa to Global Health Justice
… of biological samples for future unspecified uses. Secondly, the stored samples may be shared with researchers across the globe for the purposes of research. Thirdly, genomics researchers are increasingly required to make their research data publicly available for use by other researchers and …