Infection Control

Machine Learning Prediction of Postoperative Emergency Department Hospital Readmission.

BACKGROUND: Although prediction of hospital readmissions has been studied in medical patients, it has received relatively little attention in surgical patient populations. Published predictors require information only available at the moment of discharge. The authors hypothesized that machine learning approaches can be leveraged to accurately predict readmissions in postoperative patients from the...

[Research and application of orthotopic DR chest radiograph quality control system based on artificial intelligence].

With the change of medical diagnosis and treatment mode, the quality of medical image directly affects the diagnosis and treatment of the disease for doctors. Therefore, realization of intelligent image quality control by computer will have a greater auxiliary effect on the radiographer's filming work. In this paper, the research methods and applications of image segmentation model and image class...

A Machine Learning-Based Triage Tool for Children With Acute Infection in a Low Resource Setting.

OBJECTIVES: To deploy machine learning tools (random forests) to develop a model that reliably predicts hospital mortality in children with acute infe...

Maxwell®: An Unsupervised Learning Approach for 5P Medicine.

In the 5P medicine (Personalized, Preventive, Participative, Predictive and Pluri-expert), the general trend is to process data by displacing the bary...

Medical Equipment Replacement Prioritisation: A Comparison Between Linear and Fuzzy System Models.

In hospital management, health technology assessment techniques are being increasingly developed. This paper presents a comparison of the results obta...

A Predictive Model for Determining Patients Not Requiring Prolonged Hospital Length of Stay After Elective Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty.

BACKGROUND: Hospital length of stay (LOS) is an important quality metric for total hip arthroplasty. Accurately predicting LOS is important to expecta...

Machine Learning-based Risk of Hospital Readmissions: Predicting Acute Readmissions within 30 Days of Discharge.

The objective of this study was to design and develop a 30-day risk of hospital readmission predictive model using machine learning techniques. The pr...

Application of Machine Learning to Prediction of Surgical Site Infection.

Surgical site infections are an important health concern, particularly in low-resource areas, where there is poor access to clinical facilities or tra...

Class Imbalance Impact on the Prediction of Complications during Home Hospitalization: A Comparative Study.

Home hospitalization (HH) is presented as a healthcare alternative capable of providing high standards of care when patients no longer need hospital f...

Multidimensional Capacitive Sensing for Robot-Assisted Dressing and Bathing.

Robotic assistance presents an opportunity to benefit the lives of many people with physical disabilities, yet accurately sensing the human body and t...

Machine learning-based preoperative predictive analytics for lumbar spinal stenosis.

OBJECTIVEPatient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) following decompression surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) demonstrate considerable heterogen...

Supervised machine learning for the prediction of infection on admission to hospital: a prospective observational cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Infection diagnosis can be challenging, relying on clinical judgement and non-specific markers of infection. We evaluated a supervised mac...

[A real-world study of paritaprevir/ritonavir-ombitasvir combined with dasabuvir in the treatment of genotype 1b chronic hepatitis C].

To recognize the efficacy and safety of paritaprevir/ritonavir-ombitasvir combined with dasabuvir (OBV/PTV/RTV+DSV) in the treatment of genotype 1b c...

Clinical observation of the efficacy of low-molecular-weight heparin calcium in prophylaxis of the deep venous thrombosis following the gynecological tumor surgery.

Present study is conducted to investigate the efficacy and safety of application of low-molecular-weight heparin calcium in the prophylaxis of deep ve...

Implementation of Enterprise Imaging Strategy at a Chinese Tertiary Hospital.

Medical images have become increasingly important in clinical practice and medical research, and the need to manage images at the hospital level has b...

Arash: A social robot buddy to support children with cancer in a hospital environment.

This article presents the thorough design procedure, specifications, and performance of a mobile social robot friend Arash for educational and therape...

Infection prevention and control challenges of using a therapeutic robot.

This work was part of a National Institute for Health Research participatory action research and practice development study, which focused on the use ...

Percutaneous kyphoplasty versus posterior spinal fixation with vertebroplasty for treatment of Kümmell disease: A case-control study with minimal 2-year follow-up.

This is a retrospective case-control study.The aim of this study was to compare the surgical results of percutaneous kyphoplasty (KP) and posterior sp...

Caspofungin infusion solutions (50 mg/100 mL): chemical stability and antifungal activity against Candida spp.

BACKGROUND: Ready to use caspofungin infusion bags are centrally prepared in the Hospital Pharmacy, University Hospital of Heidelberg, for economic re...

A New Essential Functions Installed DWH in Hospital Information System: Process Mining Techniques and Natural Language Processing.

Several kinds of event log data produced in daily clinical activities have yet to be used for secure and efficient improvement of hospital activities....