Staffing & Scheduling

Estimating a Bias in ICD Encodings for Billing Purposes.

ICD encoded diagnoses are a popular criterion for eligibility algorithms for study cohort recruitment. However, "official" ICD encoded diagnoses used for billing purposes are afflicted with a bias originating from legal issues. This work presents an approach to estimate the degree of the encoding bias for the complete ICD catalogue at a German university hospital. The free text diagnoses sections ...

Towards Phenotyping of Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria.

BACKGROUND: Medical plaintext documents contain important facts about patients, but they are rarely available for structured queries. The provision of structured information from natural language texts in addition to the existing structured data can significantly speed up the search for fulfilled inclusion criteria and thus improve the recruitment rate.

Comparative Analysis of Algorithmic Approaches for Auto-Coding with ICD-10-AM and ACHI.

Clinical coding is done using ICD-10-AM (International Classification of Diseases, version 10, Australian Modification) and ACHI (Australian Classific...

Prediction of delayed retention of antibodies in hydrophobic interaction chromatography from sequence using machine learning.

MOTIVATION: The hydrophobicity of a monoclonal antibody is an important biophysical property relevant for its developability into a therapeutic. In ad...

[Effect of the Food to Mass Ratio and Hydraulic Retention Time on Hydrogen Production from Fruit and Vegetable Waste].

Semi-continuous biogas production from fruit and vegetable waste by medium temperature anaerobic fermentation was conducted. Hydrogen production under...

Exploration of Two Training Paradigms Using Forced Induced Weight Shifting With the Tethered Pelvic Assist Device to Reduce Asymmetry in Individuals After Stroke: Case Reports.

Many robotic devices in rehabilitation incorporate an assist-as-needed haptic guidance paradigm to promote training. This error reduction model, while...

Predicting Deletion of Chromosomal Arms 1p/19q in Low-Grade Gliomas from MR Images Using Machine Intelligence.

Several studies have linked codeletion of chromosome arms 1p/19q in low-grade gliomas (LGG) with positive response to treatment and longer progression...

Addition of forelimb training reduces gains from robotic gait training in a rat model of spinal cord injury.

To restore locomotor function following spinal cord injury the disrupted descending supraspinal drive needs to be re-connected to regions caudal to th...

Preliminary assessment of a lower-limb exoskeleton controller for guiding leg movement in overground walking.

This paper describes the design, implementation, and preliminary validation of a controller for a powered lower-limb exoskeleton that reshapes a user'...

MIT-Skywalker: Evaluating comfort of bicycle/saddle seat.

The MIT-Skywalker is a robotic device developed for the rehabilitation of gait and balance after a neurological injury. This device has been designed ...

HPLC METHOD FOR SEPARATING ENANTIOMERS OF IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVES - ANTIFUNGAL COMPOUNDS.

The aim of this study was to test separation possibility of enantiomers of nine active substances belonging to imidazole derivatives: bifonazole, buto...

REVERSE PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF 5-FLUOROURACIL IN RABBIT PLASMA.

A simple, efficient, accurate and selective HPLC method has been developed and validated successfully for the estimation of 5-fluorouracil in rabbit p...

Silica Cross-Linked Micellar Core--Shell Nanoparticles Encapsulating IR-780 with Strong Bright and Good Biocompatibility for Optical Imaging In Vivo.

IR-780 iodide, a near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent heptamethine dye, has attracted wide attention in the biomedical community. However, hydrophobicity a...

Potential of Piper betle extracts on inhibition of oral pathogens.

In the present study, antimicrobial activity of Piper betle crude ethanol extract against 4 strains of oral pathogens; Candida albicans DMST 8684, C. ...

STABILITY-INDICATING HPLC METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF VANCOMYCIN HYDROCHLORIDE IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORMS.

A simple, rapid and selective RP-HPLC method was developed for the determination of vancomycin hydrochloride. The separation was achieved using a Capi...

Feasibility of Automating Patient Acuity Measurement Using a Machine Learning Algorithm.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: One method of determining nurse staffing is to match patient demand for nursing care (patient acuity) with available nursing s...

Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor Codigestion of Algae and Acetate to Produce Methane.

  Algae grown in wastewater treatment lagoons are a potentially important substrate for biofuel production. The feasibility of using upflow anaerobic ...

Application of cross-correlated delay shift rule in spiking neural networks for interictal spike detection.

This study proposes a Cross-Correlated Delay Shift (CCDS) supervised learning rule to train neurons with associated spatiotemporal patterns to classif...

Deep neural network architectures for forecasting analgesic response.

Response to prescribed analgesic drugs varies between individuals, and choosing the right drug/dose often involves a lengthy, iterative process of tri...

An automated bladder volume measurement algorithm by pixel classification using random forests.

Residual bladder volume measurement is a very important marker for patients with urinary retention problems. To be able to monitor patients with these...