Prevention of medical errors

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 of a therapeutic, robotic baby seal (PARO, for personal assistive robot) in everyday practice in a single-site dementia unit in Sussex. From the beginning of January 2017 until the end of September 2017, the cleaning and cleanliness of PARO was monit...

Applying Machine Learning to Workers' Compensation Data to Identify Industry-Specific Ergonomic and Safety Prevention Priorities: Ohio, 2001 to 2011.

OBJECTIVE: This study leveraged a state workers' compensation claims database and machine learning techniques to target prevention efforts by injury causation and industry.

Finger language recognition based on ensemble artificial neural network learning using armband EMG sensors.

BACKGROUND: Deaf people use sign or finger languages for communication, but these methods of communication are very specialized. For this reason, the ...

Joint Dictionary Learning-Based Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Voice Conversion to Improve Speech Intelligibility After Oral Surgery.

This paper focuses on machine learning based voice conversion (VC) techniques for improving the speech intelligibility of surgical patients who have ...

Infant Central Nervous System Aspergillosis with First-episode of Intracranial Hemorrhage: A case report.

RATIONALE: Central nervous system (CNS) aspergillosis has the characteristics of multifocality, polymorphism, and coexistence of pathological types, a...

Medical Image Data and Datasets in the Era of Machine Learning-Whitepaper from the 2016 C-MIMI Meeting Dataset Session.

At the first annual Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (C-MIMI), held in September 2016, a conference session on medical image data...

Feasibility of using sphero in rehabilitation of children with autism in social and communication skills.

The majority of children with autism face difficulties in social interaction and communication skills. Consequently, in this paper we present a pilot ...

Factors Associated with HIV Testing Among Participants from Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs in the US: A Machine Learning Approach.

HIV testing is the foundation for consolidated HIV treatment and prevention. In this study, we aim to discover the most relevant variables for predict...

Leveraging Event Reporting Through Knowledge Support: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Promoting Patient Fall Prevention.

Patient falls are a common safety event type that impairs the healthcare quality. Strategies including solution tools and reporting systems for preven...

Automating the Identification of Patient Safety Incident Reports Using Multi-Label Classification.

Automated identification provides an efficient way to categorize patient safety incidents. Previous studies have focused on identifying single inciden...

Evaluation of a Technology-Based Adaptive Learning and Prevention Program for Stress Response-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

To prevent deployment-related disorders, Chaos Driven Situations Management Retrieval System (CHARLY), a computer-aided training platform with a biofe...

Multi-chip dataflow architecture for massive scale biophysically accurate neuron simulation.

State-of-the-art neuron simulators are capable of simulating at most few tens/hundreds of neurons in real-time due to the exponential growth in the co...

Ensemble statistical and subspace clustering model for analysis of autism spectrum disorder phenotypes.

Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is complex including variability in behavioral phenotype as well as clinical, physiologic, and patholo...

A mobile platform for automated screening of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma each represent a large proportion of the global disease burden; COPD is the third leading caus...

Suicide Risk Assessment in Hospitals: An Expert System-Based Triage Tool.

BACKGROUND: The November 2010 Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert on the prevention of suicides in medical/surgical units and the emergency departme...

Major accident prevention through applying safety knowledge management approach.

OBJECTIVE: Many scattered resources of knowledge are available to use for chemical accident prevention purposes. The common approach to management pro...

Utilization of Communication Robot in Patient Education.

In Japan, the population is expected to decrease. Moreover, the proportion of elderly people living alone among the elderly population is expected to ...

Quorum Sensing of Periodontal Pathogens.

The term 'quorum sensing' describes intercellular bacterial communication which regulates bacterial gene expression according to population cell densi...

Comment to the letter: Prevention from port site metastasis.

Gist Representations and Communication of Risks about HIV-AIDS: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach.

As predicted by fuzzy-trace theory, people with a range of training—from untrained adolescents to expert physicians—are susceptible to biases and erro...