Prevention of medical errors

Optimal Modality Selection for Cooperative Human-Robot Task Completion.

Human-robot cooperation in complex environments must be fast, accurate, and resilient. This requires...

"Look at my classifier's result": Disentangling unresponsive from (minimally) conscious patients.

Given the fact that clinical bedside examinations can have a high rate of misdiagnosis, machine lear...

Lynx: Automatic Elderly Behavior Prediction in Home Telecare.

This paper introduces Lynx, an intelligent system for personal safety at home environments, oriented...

A Matter of Perspective: Comparison of the Characteristics of Persons with HIV Infection in the United States from the HIV Outpatient Study, Medical Monitoring Project, and National HIV Surveillance System.

Comparative analyses of the characteristics of persons living with HIV infection (PLWH) in the Unite...

Accessing complex patient data from Arden Syntax Medical Logic Modules.

OBJECTIVE: Arden Syntax is a standard for representing and sharing medical knowledge in form of inde...

An automatic system to identify heart disease risk factors in clinical texts over time.

Despite recent progress in prediction and prevention, heart disease remains a leading cause of death...

Coronary artery disease risk assessment from unstructured electronic health records using text mining.

Coronary artery disease (CAD) often leads to myocardial infarction, which may be fatal. Risk factors...

Novel, Precise, Accurate Ion-Pairing Method to Determine the Related Substances of the Fondaparinux Sodium Drug Substance: Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin.

Fondaparinux sodium is a synthetic low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH). This medication is an antico...

Usage of Probabilistic and General Regression Neural Network for Early Detection and Prevention of Oral Cancer.

In India, the oral cancers are usually presented in advanced stage of malignancy. It is critical to ...

A remotely piloted aircraft system in major incident management: concept and pilot, feasibility study.

BACKGROUND: Major incidents are complex, dynamic and bewildering task environments characterised by ...

Tandem Stance Avoidance Using Adaptive and Asymmetric Admittance Control for Fall Prevention.

Fall prevention is one of the most important functions of walking assistance devices for user's safe...

Participation and Enjoyment in Play with a Robot between Children with Cerebral Palsy who use AAC and their Peers.

This study explores children with complex communication needs, their peers and adult support persons...

Prevention from port-site metastasis.

An Acoustic Communication Technique of Nanorobot Swarms for Nanomedicine Applications.

In this contribution, we present a communication paradigm among nanodevices, based on acoustic vibra...

Uncovering phase-coupled oscillatory networks in electrophysiological data.

Phase consistent neuronal oscillations are ubiquitous in electrophysiological recordings, and they m...

[Robot-assisted surgery in visceral and thoracic surgery gynaecology, urology--importantanaesthetic considerations].

Robot-assisted surgery, as a development of laparoscopic surgery, has an increasing field of applica...

Moving Away From Error-Related Potentials to Achieve Spelling Correction in P300 Spellers.

P300 spellers can provide a means of communication for individuals with severe neuromuscular limitat...

[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 t...

Comfort with AI for HIV Prevention Among Cisgender Women in New York City

Background: Long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) expands HIV prevention options for women. Ho...

AI Adoption for NCDs in Kenya: A Qualitative Study

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent a critical public health challenge in Kenya, ...

Privacy-Preserving Screening for Record Linkage

In an era dominated by big data and machine learning, establishing valuable data collaboration has n...