Hospital-Based Medicine

Robotic distal pancreatectomy versus conventional laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy: a comparative study for short-term outcomes.

Robotic system has been increasingly used in pancreatectomy. However, the effectiveness of this meth...

Identification of Risk Factors for Initial Elevated Vancomyin Trough Concentrations.

Recent literature suggests that elevated vancomycin trough concentrations (>20 µg/mL) may be associ...

Real-time prediction of inpatient length of stay for discharge prioritization.

OBJECTIVE: Hospitals are challenged to provide timely patient care while maintaining high resource u...

Intrawound Vancomycin Powder for Spine Tumor Surgery.

Study Design Retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data. Objective To evaluate infecti...

Reducing the incidence of oxyhaemoglobin desaturation during rapid sequence intubation in a paediatric emergency department.

OBJECTIVES: Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is the standard for definitive airway management in emer...

ANN modelling of sediment concentration in the dynamic glacial environment of Gangotri in Himalaya.

The present study explores for the first time the possibility of modelling sediment concentration wi...

The use of artificial neural networks to predict delayed discharge and readmission in enhanced recovery following laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery.

BACKGROUND: Artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be used to develop predictive tools to enable the ...

Laparoscopic robot-assisted resection of tumors located in posterosuperior liver segments.

Laparoscopic resection of liver tumors located in the posterosuperior segments is a challenging oper...

Understanding safety-critical interactions with a home medical device through Distributed Cognition.

As healthcare shifts from the hospital to the home, it is becoming increasingly important to underst...

Cervical Scoliosis: Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes.

Study Design Retrospective study. Objective Cervical scoliosis is a rare condition that can arise fr...

A Fuzzy Kernel Motion Classifier for Autonomous Stroke Rehabilitation.

Autonomous poststroke rehabilitation systems which can be deployed outside hospital with no or reduc...

An end-to-end hybrid algorithm for automated medication discrepancy detection.

BACKGROUND: In this study we implemented and developed state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) and na...

Prediction of in-hospital mortality after ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using an artificial neural network.

OBJECTIVE: Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA) carries a high mortality rate, even with prompt...

Surgical Excision of Advanced Endometriosis: Perioperative Outcomes and Impacting Factors.

OBJECTIVE: To determine perioperative outcomes and factors impacting operating time, length of hospi...

Detecting tympanostomy tubes from otoscopic images via offline and online training.

Tympanostomy tube placement has been commonly used nowadays as a surgical treatment for otitis media...

Re: Editorial comment on early discharge after laparoscopic or robotic partial nephrectomy: care pathway evaluation: M. P. Laguna J Urol 2014;192:1639.

Predicting inpatient stay lasting 2 midnights or longer after robotic surgery for endometrial cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the rate of inpatient stay and the factors predicting inpatient status after ...

Permutation entropy analysis of vital signs data for outcome prediction of patients with severe traumatic brain injury.

Permutation entropy is computationally efficient, robust to outliers, and effective to measure compl...

Prediction of hospitalization due to heart diseases by supervised learning methods.

BACKGROUND: In 2008, the United States spent $2.2 trillion for healthcare, which was 15.5% of its GD...

Factors influencing same-day hospital discharge and risk factors for readmission after robotic surgery in the gynecologic oncology patient population.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the factors that allow for a safe outpatient robotic-assisted minimall...

Technology advances in hospital practices: robotics in treatment of patients.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is widely considered as the treatment of choice for acute cholecystitis...