BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jan 10, 2019
BACKGROUND: Adverse drug events (ADEs) as well as other preventable adverse events in the hospital setting incur a yearly monetary cost of approximately $3.5 billion, in the United States alone. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to reduce the ...
In a context of perpetual evolution of treatments, access to therapeutic innovation is a major challenge for patients and the various players involved in the procedures of access to medicines. The revolutions in genomic and personalized medicine, art...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Computer-assisted (diagnostic) coding (CAC) aims to improve the operational productivity and accuracy of clinical coders. The level of accuracy, especially for a wide range of complex and less prevalent clinical cases, remains an open research proble...
Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud
Dec 1, 2018
Introduction: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes severe skin and soft tissue infections in hospitals and, more recently, in the community. Tedizolid is a new second-generation oxazolidinone derivative having greater in vitro po...
Hospital traditional cost accounting systems have inherent limitations that restrict their usefulness for measuring the exact cost of healthcare services. In this regard, new approaches such as Time Driven-Activity based Costing (TDABC) provide appro...
IMPORTANCE: Forecasting the volume of hospital discharges has important implications for resource allocation and represents an opportunity to improve patient safety at periods of elevated risk.
In a mass casualty incident, the factors that determine the survival rate of injured patients are diverse, but one of the key factors is the time for triage. Additionally, the main factor that determines the time of triage is the number of medical pe...
The detection of Adverse Medical Events (AMEs) plays an important role in disease management in ensuring efficient treatment delivery and quality improvement of health services. Recently, with the rapid development of hospital information systems, a ...
OBJECTIVE: Abbreviations sense disambiguation is a special case of word sense disambiguation. Machine learning methods based on neural networks showed promising results for word sense disambiguation (Festag and Spreckelsen, 2017) [1] and, here we ass...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jun 25, 2018
BACKGROUND: Traditional health information systems are generally devised to support clinical data collection at the point of care. However, as the significance of the modern information economy expands in scope and permeates the healthcare domain, th...
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