Hospital-Based Medicine

Emergence of carbapenemase-producing urinary isolates at a tertiary care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

OBJECTIVES: A growing incidence of pathogens producing carbapenemases has been observed in many coun...

Developing Artificial Neural Network Models to Predict Functioning One Year After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.

OBJECTIVE: To develop mathematical models for predicting level of independence with specific functio...

Detecting borderline infection in an automated monitoring system for healthcare-associated infection using fuzzy logic.

BACKGROUND: Many electronic infection detection systems employ dichotomous classification methods, c...

From binary presumptive assays to probabilistic assessments: Differentiation of shooters from non-shooters using IMS, OGSR, neural networks, and likelihood ratios.

Screening tests are used in forensic science for field testing and directing laboratory analysis of ...

Re: Robot-assisted Versus Open Radical Prostatectomy: A Contemporary Analysis of an All-payer Discharge Database.

Current practice of preparing morphine infusions for nurse/patient-controlled analgesia in a UK paediatric hospital: healthcare professionals' views and experiences.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the views and experiences of healthcare professionals (HCPs) regarding the pre...

Development of two artificial neural network models to support the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospitalized patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) remains a worldwide public health problem. Diagnostic algorithms to ide...

Softworms: the design and control of non-pneumatic, 3D-printed, deformable robots.

Robots that can easily interact with humans and move through natural environments are becoming incre...

Natural Language Processing for Cohort Discovery in a Discharge Prediction Model for the Neonatal ICU.

OBJECTIVES: Discharging patients from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be delayed for non...

Prediction of In-hospital Mortality in Emergency Department Patients With Sepsis: A Local Big Data-Driven, Machine Learning Approach.

OBJECTIVES: Predictive analytics in emergency care has mostly been limited to the use of clinical de...

Combining Amplitude Spectrum Area with Previous Shock Information Using Neural Networks Improves Prediction Performance of Defibrillation Outcome for Subsequent Shocks in Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients.

OBJECTIVE: Quantitative ventricular fibrillation (VF) waveform analysis is a potentially powerful to...

Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands.

The term 'synergy' - from the Greek synergia - means 'working together'. The concept of multiple ele...

Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome with a Support Vector Machine.

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a serious condition arising from an imbalance of supply and demand ...

[Vitamin D Insufficiency in a Hospital Population: A Photograph from the Laboratory Perspective].

INTRODUCTION: Although vitamin D deficiency is increasingly recognized around the world, there are f...

A Case of Influenza Associated Fulminant Myocarditis Successfully Treated with Intravenous Peramivir.

We report the case of a patient with fulminant myocarditis caused by influenza A virus, who presente...

Intrahepatic bile duct adenoma in a patient with chronic hepatitis B accompanied by elevation of alpha-fetoprotein.

A 51-year-old male patient with chronic hepatitis B was referred to our hospital due to a 1-cm liver...

canSAR: an updated cancer research and drug discovery knowledgebase.

canSAR (http://cansar.icr.ac.uk) is a publicly available, multidisciplinary, cancer-focused knowledg...

Intestinal helminth infections amongst HIV-infected adults in Mthatha General Hospital, South Africa.

BACKGROUND: In South Africa, studies on the prevalence of intestinal helminth co-infection amongst H...

The Prevalence of HIV in Cancer Patients at the Surgical Oncology Unit of Donka University Hospital of Conakry (Guinea).

Aim. To determine the prevalence of HIV infection among patients seen at the surgical oncology unit ...

Clinical decision support systems at the Vienna General Hospital using Arden Syntax: Design, implementation, and integration.

INTRODUCTION: The Allgemeines Krankenhaus Informations Management (AKIM) project was started at the ...

Time for a culture change? Suboptimal compliance with blood culture standards at a district hospital in Cape Town.

BACKGROUND: The benchmark for contaminated blood cultures (BCs) is 3%. The South African (SA) guidel...