AIMC Topic: Hospitals, Pediatric

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Pregnancy-associated asymptomatic bacteriuria and antibiotic resistance in the Maternity and Children's Hospital, Arar, Saudi Arabia.

Journal of infection in developing countries
INTRODUCTION: The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia provides comprehensive antenatal care for all pregnant women with all required investigations. However, it does not include urine culture for diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB). This is th...

Robotic partial nephrectomy in the pediatric population: Cumulative experience at a large pediatric hospital.

Journal of pediatric urology
INTRODUCTION: Robotic partial nephrectomy is a complex minimally invasive procedure that addresses the intricate anatomy of renal masses while maximizing preservation of renal function. However, while common in adults, the evolution toward these mini...

Perspectives of Child Life Specialists After Many Years of Working With a Humanoid Robot in a Pediatric Hospital: Narrative Design.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Child life specialists (CLSs) play an important role in supporting patients and their families during their visits to a children's hospital. Although CLSs are equipped with considerable expertise to support families during some of the mos...

Trends in robotic surgery utilization across tertiary children's hospitals in the United States.

Surgical endoscopy
BACKGROUND: A growing number of tertiary children's hospitals are utilizing robotic surgical technology. We sought to characterize national trends in pediatric surgical robotic case utilization and related drivers.

[Hemoglobinuria in children hospitalized in Ouagadougou: short term inpatient care and prognosis].

The Pan African medical journal
INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to analyze the epidemiological, diagnostic, therapeutic and evolutionary features of hemoglobinuria in children hospitalized in the Pediatric University Hospital Charles de Gaulle, Ouagadougou.

Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of humanoid robot-based distraction for venipuncture pain in children.

BMJ open
INTRODUCTION: Intravenous insertion (IVI) is a very common procedure in the emergency department (ED). IVI is often painful and stressful for both children and their families. Currently, distraction therapy is not used as a standard of care for IVI i...

Children's Imaginaries of Human-Robot Interaction in Healthcare.

International journal of environmental research and public health
This paper analyzes children’s imaginaries of Human-Robots Interaction (HRI) in the context of social robots in healthcare, and it explores ethical and social issues when designing a social robot for a children’s hospital. Based on approa...

The Dependence of Machine Learning on Electronic Medical Record Quality.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
There is growing interest in applying machine learning methods to Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Across different institutions, however, EMR quality can vary widely. This work investigated the impact of this disparity on the performance of three a...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty in infants using 5-mm instruments.

Journal of pediatric urology
BACKGROUND: Utilization of the robotic approach to pyeloplasty continues to grow in the field of pediatric urology. Adoption in the infant population has perhaps been the slowest because of the limited operative domain and relatively large instrument...

Will they participate? Predicting patients' response to clinical trial invitations in a pediatric emergency department.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: (1) To develop an automated algorithm to predict a patient's response (ie, if the patient agrees or declines) before he/she is approached for a clinical trial invitation; (2) to assess the algorithm performance and the predictors on real-w...