Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
Oct 7, 2020
BACKGROUND: In 2030 there will be 4 million people in need of care in Germany; however, the nursing care sector is already suffering from a shortage of skilled workers. Innovative approaches are thus required. One possible solution with high future p...
BACKGROUND: Disparities in access to robotic surgery have been shown on the local, regional, and national level. This study aims to see if the location of hospitals with robotic platforms (HWR) correlates with population trends to explain the dispari...
We explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding the use of disinfection robots to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in health care and educational settings. Although there is some potential for deploying robots to help with manual cl...
The use of robotic surgery for colorectal cancer continues to increase. However, not all organizations offer patients the option of robotic intervention. This study seeks to understand organizational characteristics associated with the utilization of...
BACKGROUND: Hospital readmissions are a key quality metric, which has been tied to reimbursement. One strategy to reduce readmissions is to direct resources to patients at the highest risk of readmission. This strategy necessitates a robust predictiv...
Prompt identification of acute coronary syndrome is a challenge in clinical practice. The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is readily available during initial patient evaluation, but current rule-based interpretation approaches lack sufficient accurac...
PURPOSE: Candidemia is a highly lethal infection; several scores have been developed to assist the diagnosis process and recently different models have been proposed. Aim of this work was to assess predictive performance of a Random Forest (RF) algor...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
May 27, 2020
BACKGROUND: Patient experience surveys often include free-text responses. Analysis of these responses is time-consuming and often underutilized. This study examined whether Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques could provide a data-driven, hos...
International journal of medical informatics
May 4, 2020
OBJECTIVES: Various healthcare stakeholders define quality of care in different ways. Public policy could advocate all these concerns. This study was conducted to identify the main themes on patient safety of stakeholders expressed before and after t...
Accurate assessment of cardiac function is crucial for the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, screening for cardiotoxicity and decisions regarding the clinical management of patients with a critical illness. However, human assessment of cardiac fun...
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