Hospital-Based Medicine

Ultrasound-guided subcostal transversus abdominis plane infiltration with liposomal bupivacaine for patients undergoing robotic-assisted hysterectomy: a retrospective study.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the effect of a subcostal transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block with liposomal bupivacaine on postoperative maximal pain score and length of hospital stay among women undergoing robotic-assisted hysterectomy.

Evaluation of a hospital admission prediction model adding coded chief complaint data using neural network methodology.

OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to apply neural network methodology to determine whether adding coded chief complaint (CCC) data to triage information would result in an improved hospital admission prediction model than one without CCC data.

Design, development and first validation of a transcoding system from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10 in the IT.DRG Italian project.

In Italy, ICD-9-CM is currently used for coding health conditions at hospital discharge, but ICD-10 is being introduced thanks to the IT-DRG Project. ...

Problem Solving for Volatilizing Situation in Nursing: Developing Thinking Process Supporting System using NursingNAVI® Contents.

We have identified three foci of the nursing observation and nursing action respectively. Using these frameworks, we have developed the structured kno...

Development of Knowledge Profiles for International eHealth eLearning Courses.

Professionals working in the multidisciplinary field of eHealth vary in their educational background. However, knowledge in the areas of medicine, eng...

Semantic retrieval and navigation in clinical document collections.

Patients with chronic diseases undergo numerous in- and outpatient treatment periods, and therefore many documents accumulate in their electronic reco...

Textual analysis of collaboration notes of the telemedical heart failure network HerzMobil Tirol.

UNLABELLED: Management of heart failure is usually multidisciplinary and collaboration between stakeholders in a dedicated HI network like the HerzMob...

Improving Hospital-Wide Early Resource Allocation through Machine Learning.

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which early determination of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) can be used for better allocatio...

Generation of Natural-Language Textual Summaries from Longitudinal Clinical Records.

Physicians are required to interpret, abstract and present in free-text large amounts of clinical data in their daily tasks. This is especially true f...

Identifying Patients with Depression Using Free-text Clinical Documents.

About 1 in 10 adults are reported to exhibit clinical depression and the associated personal, societal, and economic costs are significant. In this st...

[Robot-assisted and laparoscopic partial splenectomy for nonparasitic cysts].

21 patients with nonparasitic spleen cysts were operated. Robot-assisted (RA) interventions were applied in 10 cases, laparoscopic--in 11 patients. Me...

Determination of number of check dams by artificial neural networks in arid regions of Iran.

An artificial neural network (ANN) model with six hydrological factors including time of concentration (TC), curve number, slope, imperviousness, area...

Transoral robotic surgery in head neck cancer management.

Head and Neck cancer can be treated by non-surgical or surgical modalities. Current surgical techniques include open surgery and transoral resections....