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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"intensive care units (ICU)"”.
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Modeling and study of infectious disease : stochastic modeling for antibiotic resistance and treatment strategies
… threat to immuno-compromised individuals in Intensive Care Units (ICU). This study examines several cycling treatments (7,14,30,60,120,240-day cycle) and random fraction treatment (50-50,60-40,80-20,100-0) strategies in ICU and finds that no single strategy will outperform all others. Human, …
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Mapping Current Adult Intensive Care Unit Patient Care Rounding Practices
… is essential for high quality patient care; within the ICU the majority of health care provider communication occurs during patient care rounds. While several best practices for rounds have been proposed it is unclear if they are being used in Canadian adult Intensive Care Units (ICU). …
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Modelling patient states in intensive care patients
Extensive bedside monitoring in hospital Intensive Care Units (ICU) has resulted in a deluge of information on patient physiology. Consequently, clinical decision makers have to reason with data that is simultaneously large and high-dimensional. Mechanisms to compress these datasets while retaining …
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the Intensive Care Unit
… alternative communication (AAC) system use in intensive care units (ICU) and clinical decision making patterns. AAC is use of any alternative method of communication when oral communication cannot be achieved (ASHA, 2013). Patients in the ICU may become nonverbal for many reasons including …
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Development of a Collaborative Decision-Making Framework to Improve the Patients’ Service Quality in the Intensive Care Unit During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Healthcare is one of the biggest and complex service sectors, where decisions need to be made quickly, accurately and efficiently including multiple stake-holders. Especially during this COVID-19 pandemic, service improvement decisions in Intensive Care Units (ICU) are considered to be a critical …
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Timing of complications following elective craniotomies
… with admission to neurosurgical higher or intensive care units (ICU) have been the norm for many decades. This practice is neither evidence based nor a cost-effective use of medical resources. This observational audit aimed to establish the incidence and timing of serious complications …
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Nurse Family Member Perceptions of Patient Death and Nursing Care after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
… nurse family member perceptions of nursing care and patient quality of death and dying during and after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment within Intensive Care Units (ICU).</p> <p>Rationale: Past research that examined physician, nurse, and family member experiences of End-of-Life …
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An examination into whether the statistical data supports the anecdotal knowledge that an increased ageing population of patients is impacting on the management of care in ICU
… that shows an increased ageing population in intensive care units in Europe, Australia and the United States of America. However, little study has been done within New Zealand. The regional intensive care unit chosen for this study has anecdotal knowledge that there has been a steady increase …
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Design and implementation of advanced Bayesian networks with comparative probability
… can be achieved by a thorough grasp of particular key elements that, if put together, will synthesize the current status of an environment. However, there are many cases where a decision-maker needs to make a decision when no information is available, the source of information is …
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NOVEL DATA MINING ALGORITHMS FOR ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
… 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 entity extraction. In this thesis, we …
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Provision of physiotherapy services for children in Intensive Care Units in Uganda: A descriptive study
… high in Uganda but the provision of critical care services is sub-optimal, characterized by limited accessibility and minimum standardization of services provided in the intensive care units (ICU). The nature and extent of the provision of physiotherapy services for children in ICUs in Uganda …
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The Validity and Reliability of Ultrasound as a Tool for Assessing Skeletal Muscle Characteristics in the Pediatric Population
… 5 million people in the U.S. are admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU) due to critical conditions, with pediatric patients comprising 21% of these admissions. Approximately 40% of pediatric ICU (PICU) patients require mechanical ventilation and extended stays, and about 6% result in death. …
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Mobility Practices, Attitudes and Perceptions of Nurses, Doctors and Physiotherapists Regarding Early Mobilisation of Critically Ill Patients in Intensive Care Units in Namibia. A Retrospective Record Review and Cross sectional Survey
Background: The main focus of care in intensive care units (ICU) has historically been on preventing mortality. With advancing knowledge and technology, more patients now survive their ICU stay. Therefore, critical care priorities have recently shifted to preventing critical illness related …
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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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Risk assessment and mortality prediction in patients with venous thromboembolism using big data and machine learning.
… need immediate treatment and monitoring in intensive care units (ICU). Moreover, cancer patients are at increased risk of developing VTE, especially in the immediate period after ICU hospitalization. It is crucial to predict which of the cancer patients will develop VTE, as well as early and …
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Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of ‘good’ end-of-life care for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld: A North Island non-metropolitan ICU nursing study.
Intensive care is a place for the critically ill. It is a place of advanced technology where alarms, lights and noise are plentiful and where privacy and dignity are not always able to be given the highest priority. ICUs are places catering for the most acutely unwell patients, a number of these …