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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"medical resources"”.
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The law and psychology of altruism in allocating scarce medical resources
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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MODELS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR ELECTIVE SURGERY SCHEDULING UNDER UNCERTAINTY CONSIDERING PATIENT HEALTH CONDITION
… competing each other to be treated using limited medical resources in a healthcare system. The limited medical resources include surgeons, physicians, anesthesiologists, nurses, operating rooms, wards, etc. Therefore, patient safety is related to how to run a healthcare system with the limited …
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Distributive justice and patient selection
There are not always enough medical resources to go around and pluralist theories of decision making generally do not explain the principle of justice in a way that provides action-guidance. I adopt a modified and expanded form of the claims-based approach of Rescher and Broome as the framework for …
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Community characteristics and the provision of emergency medical services
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is provided in a variety of different ways in the United States. Methods of service delivery range from the purely private to the completely public and include mixtures that are not clearly one or the other. Based on a review of the literature, this variation is …
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Improving mental wellbeing on college campuses through participatory art installation
… and providing a wide range of social and medical resources. However, can we further supplement our community's mental wellbeing through altering our physical surroundings? This thesis draws on precedent research and case studies in the fields of psychology, biology, and art, and combines …
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Development of an Emergency Medical Services Plan for Commercial Spaceflight Events in Spaceport America
… Spaceport America will require an emergency medical services (EMS) plan to prepare for and deal with medical emergencies that may arise during commercial spaceflight activities. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this capstone project was to assess Spaceport America’s EMS needs and to develop an EMS plan …
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Decision Support for Casualty Triage in Emergency Response
… (MCI) cause a sudden increase in demand of medical resources in a region. The most important and challenging task in addressing an MCI is managing overwhelmed resources with the goal of increasing total number of survivors. Currently, most of the decisions following an MCI are made in an …
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Combat-Related Reproductive Trauma: Implications for Quality of Life and the Reproductive Narrative
… to more critical health needs and the lack of medical resources to reverse testicular function. The reproductive trauma is often put aside until physical injuries are stabilized and some independence is regained. Finding meaning and purpose is a way to reconstruct the reproductive …
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Mathematical modeling, analysis, and simulation of Cholera dynamics
… Finally, we analyze the impact of available medical resources on cholera transmission by taking a realistic case: Yemen cholera outbreak during 2017-2018. By fitting our simulation results to the epidemic data published by the World Health Organization (WHO), we find that different levels of …
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Bridging Machine Learning and Operations Research: From Decision-Focused Learning to Learning to Optimize
… networks, or scheduling surgeries with limited medical resources. Despite advances in commercial solvers such as Gurobi and CPLEX, and continued improvements in computing hardware, optimization problems involving integer variables remain NP-hard and computationally intractable at scale. The …
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Vision-based context-aware assistance for minimally invasive surgery.
… through the whole patient care pathway, such as medical resources scheduling and report generation. Automatic surgical activities understanding is an essential component for building context-aware surgical system. However, analyzing surgical activities is a challenging task, because the operating …
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Care Coordination for Pediatric Patients at Federally Qualified Health Centers in Arizona
… Care coordination in patient- or family-centered medical home (PCMH/FCMH) models is one evidence-based strategy to help better manage childhood chronic diseases. Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) primarily serve uninsured, Medicaid, low-income and/or minority populations, and many …
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Rfid-based business process and workflow management in healthcare:design and implementation
… the real-time location, status, and condition of medical resources. The goal of this research is to propose a newly integrated system to model, automate, and monitor healthcare business processes using an automatic data collection technology to record the timing and location of activities and …
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Border Narratives, Latino Health, and United States Media Representation: A Cultural Analysis
… to concerns about health, disease, and medical resources. I start with a qualitative analysis of selected texts from mainstream media to lay out the dominant themes that largely construct undocumented crossers as a national and biological threat, and the border as a frontline dividing …
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Health Provision in Tshitshi, Zimbabwe: A Focus on Sexual and Reproductive Health
… been affected by a dead economy: the scarcity of resources such as money, water, energy, food, and medical care has meant that a once-desirable system has become dysfunctional and is too incapacitated to meet the needs of the public. The population has been reduced to paupers and forced to adopt …
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Timing of complications following elective craniotomies
… evidence based nor a cost-effective use of medical resources. This observational audit aimed to establish the incidence and timing of serious complications after elective craniotomies in a low-middle income country context. Methods: The medical records of adult patients who had elective …
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Identification of Tissue and Circulating Biomarkers For Premalignant and Malignant Lesions
… lead to more informed distribution of limited medical resources for monitoring clinical outcomes as well as the origin for future studies on deciphering the intricate mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis, host response and patient survival.</p>
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Injury and illness risk factors for elite athletes in training environment
… of 335 top level athletes and a total of 88 medical care providers from Germany and Taiwan participated in tow “cross-sectional plus longitudinal” Risk-IQ and MCPQ surveys respectively. Four categories of injury/illness related risk factors questions were asked in Risk-IQ for athletes while …
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The Impact of Depressive Symptoms on Healthcare Utilization and Charges for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)
… chronic illness consumes a large share of health resources. Identifying modifiable variables for those at risk for poor management is essential to containing costs. Given the growing economic burden of diabetes (approximately $200 billion annually) and that type 1 diabetes (T1D) contributes a …
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