Health Policy

Monitoring the quality of robot-assisted pedicle screw fixation in the lumbar spine by using a cumulative summation test.

STUDY DESIGN: Prospective randomized controlled trial.

SINGLE-ACCESS TRANSUMBILICAL LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY USING CURVED REUSABLE INSTRUMENTS: AN INITIAL REPORT OF THREE CASES.

INTRODUCTION: The continuous evolution of laparoscopic surgery and the ambition of better cosmetic r...

Transareolar Robotic-Assisted Access to the Mitral Valve.

During the past years, a rapid development and refinements of robotic heart valve techniques have le...

Regularised extreme learning machine with misclassification cost and rejection cost for gene expression data classification.

The main purpose of traditional classification algorithms on bioinformatics application is to acquir...

Facilitating Full-text Access to Biomedical Literature Using Open Access Resources.

Open access (OA) resources and local libraries often have their own literature databases, especially...

A Pilot Ontology for Healthcare Quality Indicators.

Computerisation of quality indicators for the English National Health Service currently relies prima...

Characterizing Health Information for Different Target Audiences.

Different groups of audiences in health care: health professionals and health consumers, each have d...

Developing a Standards-Based Information Model for Representing Computable Diagnostic Criteria: A Feasibility Study of the NQF Quality Data Model.

The lack of a standards-based information model has been recognized as a major barrier for represent...

Utility of Arden Syntax for Representation of Fuzzy Logic in Clinical Quality Measures.

BACKGROUND: Prior work has established that fuzzy logic is prevalent in clinical practice guidelines...

Automated Detection of Postoperative Surgical Site Infections Using Supervised Methods with Electronic Health Record Data.

The National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (NSQIP) is widely recognized as "the best in the n...

Proactive Support of Internet Browsing when Searching for Relevant Health Information.

Many people use the Internet as one of the primary sources of health information. This is due to the...

Improving Quality of Life and Depression After Stroke Through Telerehabilitation.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of home-based robot-assisted rehabilit...

[Cost price of robot-assisted and laparoscopic operations].

High cost of robotized complex and expendables is significant difficulty for its acquisition and int...

An ontology for healthcare quality indicators: challenges for semantic interoperability.

Semantic interoperability, a popular research area for electronic health records, can also be a chal...

Health consumer-oriented information retrieval.

While patients can freely access their Electronic Health Records or online health information, they ...

Robotic gait training improves motor skills and quality of life in hereditary spastic paraplegia.

BACKGROUND: Gait impairment, balance problems and falls have a negative impact on independence in AD...

Authors' reply: Economic evaluation of robot-assisted hysterectomy: a cost-minimisation analysis.

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

Use of artificial neural networks in the QSAR prediction of physicochemical properties and toxicities for REACH legislation.

With the introduction of the REACH legislation in the European Union, there is a requirement for pro...

AIDS causes sharp rise in number of Brazilian orphans.

An estimated 183,000 Brazilian children are at risk of losing their mothers to AIDS, according to a ...