Infection Control

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 Vienna General Hospital (VGH) several years ago. This led to the introduction of a new hospital information system (HIS), and the installation of the expert system platform (EXP) for the integration of Arden-Syntax-based clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). In this report we take a look at the...

Hypercalcemia of Malignancy.

A 60-year-old man initially presented with pain in the right upper quadrant in October 2010. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen pelvis completed at that time showed a mass at the junction of the body and tail of the pancreas and multiple large liver lesions. A CT-guided liver biopsy revealed low-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma. The patient was initially started on systemic treatment wit...

Feasibility of 30-day hospital readmission prediction modeling based on health information exchange data.

INTRODUCTION: Unplanned 30-day hospital readmission account for roughly $17 billion in annual Medicare spending. Many factors contribute to unplanned ...

Epidermal Sutureless Closure of the Umbilical Base Following Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer.

At our institute, a non-suturing method for closure of the umbilical epidermis has been used in laparoscopic colorectal resection to prevent umbilical...

Statistical Machines for Trauma Hospital Outcomes Research: Application to the PRospective, Observational, Multi-Center Major Trauma Transfusion (PROMMTT) Study.

Improving the treatment of trauma, a leading cause of death worldwide, is of great clinical and public health interest. This analysis introduces flexi...

An Ambient Intelligence Framework for End-User Service Provisioning in a Hospital Pharmacy: a Case Study.

End-user development is a new trend to provide tailored services to dynamic environments such as hospitals. These services not only facilitate daily w...

Intrawound Vancomycin Powder for Spine Tumor Surgery.

Study Design Retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data. Objective To evaluate infection rates following intrawound vancomycin powder ap...

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 GDP. 31% of this expenditure is attributed to hospit...

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

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is widely considered as the treatment of choice for acute cholecystitis. The safety of the procedure and its minimal inva...

An Intelligent Robotic Hospital Bed for Safe Transportation of Critical Neurosurgery Patients Along Crowded Hospital Corridors.

We present a novel design of an intelligent robotic hospital bed, named Flexbed, with autonomous navigation ability. The robotic bed is developed for ...

Ensemble of trees approaches to risk adjustment for evaluating a hospital's performance.

A commonly used method for evaluating a hospital's performance on an outcome is to compare the hospital's observed outcome rate to the hospital's expe...

[Infection prevention check-in and infection prevention check-out to prevent nosocomial infections].

BACKGROUND: A precondition for the success of the prevention of SSI is the complete realisation of the proven anti-infective measures in form of the m...

BrainDiff: Longitudinal Report Generation for Multimodal Brain MRI

Neuroradiologists rarely read a brain MRI in isolation, yet automated brain-MRI report generation has been built almost entirely for single studies. T...

FedEHR-Agents: Federated Agentic Optimization for Automated EHR Modeling

Recent advances in large language models are enabling autonomous clinical agents to perform increasingly complex electronic health record (EHR) modeli...

Multimodal artificial intelligence using entire electronic health record and complete pathogen genome data for patient outcome prediction from life-threatening infection: the SuperbugAI Platform

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare, with advanced multimodal approaches showing great promise in leveraging divers...

From Siloed Algorithms to Compliance-First Agentic Platforms: A Multi-Layered Architecture for Hospital AI Systems

Hospitals are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence for triage, imaging, scheduling etc., yet most deployments remain isolated point solutions lock...

MetaAMI: A Novel Meta-Learning Approach for Predicting In-Hospital Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is one of the leading cardiovascular diseases worldwide and remains a major cause of mortality. Early risk predictio...

MedZone Embedder: a framework for representation learning of Japanese secondary medical care areas from a national ICU registry, characterizing intensive care provision structure and regional vulnerability

Background: In Japan, acute inpatient care is divided into approximately 335 secondary medical care areas, which serve as the basic units for planning...

When Calibration Fails the Vulnerable Hospital: Federated Conformal Risk Control via Risk-Curve Shrinkage

Conformal risk control (CRC) provides distribution-free guarantees on segmentation quality by calibrating a prediction-set threshold on held-out data....

Usability testing with a prototype user interface of an Artificial Intelligence driven air-Safety Tool (AISaT)

Involving end-users in the development of an AI tool is an important facilitator to its implementation. Usability testing was therefore conducted with...