Hospital-Based Medicine

Simulating the fate of indigenous antibiotic resistant bacteria in a mild slope wastewater polluted stream.

The fate of indigenous surface-water and wastewater antibiotic resistant bacteria in a mild slope st...

The hospital of tomorrow in 10 points.

Technology has advanced rapidly in recent years and is continuing to do so, with associated changes ...

Physicochemical stability of voriconazole in elastomeric devices.

OBJECTIVES: Voriconazole is the drug of choice for invasive aspergillosis (IA), a leading cause of m...

Delays in switching patients onto second-line antiretroviral treatment at a public hospital in eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal.

BACKGROUND: South Africa has one of the largest antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes globally. ...

A Natural Language Processing Framework for Assessing Hospital Readmissions for Patients With COPD.

With the passage of recent federal legislation, many medical institutions are now responsible for re...

A Framework for Mixed-Type Multioutcome Prediction With Applications in Healthcare.

Health analysis often involves prediction of multiple outcomes of mixed type. The existing work is r...

Re: Robot-Assisted versus Open Radical Prostatectomy: A Contemporary Analysis of an All-Payer Discharge Database.

Case report of a novel mutation of the gene in a patient with branchio-oto-renal syndrome.

Branchio-oto-renal (BOR) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the coexistence...

Prediction of Adverse Events in Patients Undergoing Major Cardiovascular Procedures.

Electronic health records (EHR) provide opportunities to leverage vast arrays of data to help preven...

Controlling testing volume for respiratory viruses using machine learning and text mining.

Viral testing for pediatric inpatients with respiratory symptoms is common, with considerable associ...

Asymptomatic Epstein-Barr Virus Shedding in the Urine of Kidney Transplant Recipients: Case Reports and Review of the Literature.

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with a wide range of malignancies and complications like post...

Relationships among exercise capacity, dynamic balance and gait characteristics of Nigerian patients with type-2 diabetes: an indication for fall prevention.

This study investigated the relationships among exercise capacity (EC), dynamic balance (DB), and ga...

A case of severe corrosive esophagitis, gastritis, and liver necrosis caused by ingestion of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide.

The plastic hardener methyl ethyl ketone peroxide is unstable peroxide that releases free oxygen rad...

Retinal Microvasculopathy Is Common in HIV/AIDS Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana.

. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ocular disorders in HIV positive patients attending ...

Chemical colitis caused by hydrogen peroxide enema in a child: case report and literature review.

A 2-year-old girl, previously healthy, was brought to the emergency department because of significan...

Evaluation of the Clinical Use of Robot-Assisted Retroperitoneal Laparoscopy and Preoperative RENAL Scoring for Nephron Sparing Surgery in Renal Tumor Patients.

The present study aims to compare the operative outcomes following the use of robot-assisted retrope...

Laparoendoscopic Rendezvous for Concomitant Cholecystocholedocholithiasis: A Successful Modality Even in the Most Difficult Presentations Including Pregnancy.

. Laparoendoscopic rendezvous (LERV) technique is emerging as an attractive treatment option for con...

Acute systolic heart failure with normal admission BNP: clinical features and outcomes.

INTRODUCTION: The characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute systolic heart fa...

Guidelines for Developing and Reporting Machine Learning Predictive Models in Biomedical Research: A Multidisciplinary View.

BACKGROUND: As more and more researchers are turning to big data for new opportunities of biomedical...

Chronic Kidney Disease Is an Independent Risk Factor for Transfusion, Cardiovascular Complication, and Thirty-Day Readmission in Minimally Invasive Total Knee Arthroplasty.

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the relationship between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and minimall...

The Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital uniportal subxiphoid approach for lung segmentectomies.

BACKGROUND: Lung segmentectomy may be considered an oncologic equivalent treatment to lobectomy for ...