Health Policy

Ontological Foundations for Tracking Data Quality through the Internet of Things.

Amongst the positive outcomes expected from the Internet of Things for Health are longitudinal patie...

Understanding Emergency Department 72-Hour Revisits Among Medicaid Patients Using Electronic Healthcare Records.

Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) have the potential to improve healthcare quality and to decreas...

[Endotoxin Contamination and Correlation with Other Water Quality Parameters of Groundwater from Self-Contained Wells in Beijing].

A survey of endotoxin activity in groundwater from 14 self-contained wells in PLA units stationed in...

LOWER LEVELS OF VITAMIN D CORRELATE WITH CLINICAL DISEASE ACTIVITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE.

BACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel disease, comprising Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a grou...

Efficacy and Safety Evaluation on Arterial Thrombolysis in Treating Acute Cerebral Infarction.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intra-arterial thrombolysis i...

[Multi-component quantitative analysis combined with chromatographic fingerprint for quality assessment of Onosma hookeri].

A method for simultaneous determination of the shikonin, acetyl shikonin and β, β'-dimethylpropene s...

Proposal for a Simple and Efficient Monthly Quality Management Program Assessing the Consistency of Robotic Image-Guided Small Animal Radiation Systems.

Modern pre-clinical radiation therapy (RT) research requires high precision and accurate dosimetry t...

[Quality standard study on Tibetan medicine Gentianae Urnulae Herba].

Gentianae Urnulae Herba, dried whole herb of Gentiana urnula,is a commonly used Tibetan medicine. Ho...

[Reliability and validity of the FACIT-AI Chinese-version for assessing quality of life in patients with malignant ascites].

Computational and human observer image quality evaluation of low dose, knowledge-based CT iterative reconstruction.

PURPOSE: Aims in this study are to (1) develop a computational model observer which reliably tracks ...

Sheep milk: physical-chemical characteristics and microbiological quality.

Sheep milk is the third most consumed milk in Brazil. It is much appreciated for its nutritional sta...

Measuring the quality of colonoscopy: Where are we now and where are we going?

Transoral robotic surgery alone for oropharyngeal cancer: quality-of-life outcomes.

IMPORTANCE: Few studies have examined quality-of-life (QOL) outcomes in patients who undergo transor...

Automatic Detection of Masses in Mammograms Using Quality Threshold Clustering, Correlogram Function, and SVM.

Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the world. Several computer-aided detectio...

Assessment of quality outcomes for robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy: identification of the learning curve.

IMPORTANCE: Quality assessment is an important instrument to ensure optimal surgical outcomes, parti...

Re: economic evaluation of robot-assisted hysterectomy: a cost-minimisation analysis.

Artificial neural network modeling of the water quality index using land use areas as predictors.

This paper describes the design of an artificial neural network (ANN) model to predict the water qua...

Robot assisted upper limb therapy combined with upper limb rehabilitation was at least as effective on a range of outcomes, and cost less to deliver, as an equal dose of upper limb rehabilitation alone for people with stroke.

Learning feature representations with a cost-relevant sparse autoencoder.

There is an increasing interest in the machine learning community to automatically learn feature rep...

Cost-effectiveness of robotic surgery in gynecologic oncology.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Robotically assisted surgeries have flourished in the United States, especially i...

Measuring physician adherence with gout quality indicators: a role for natural language processing.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate physician adherence with gout quality indicators (QIs) for medication use and...