Journal of vascular surgery. Venous and lymphatic disorders
Nov 9, 2016
OBJECTIVE: Inferior vena cava (IVC) surgery is uncommon and has traditionally been performed through open surgical approaches. Renal cell carcinoma with IVC extension generally requires vena cavotomy and reconstruction. Open removal of malpositioned ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Nov 25, 2015
BACKGROUND: The digitization of healthcare data, resulting from the increasingly widespread adoption of electronic health records, has greatly facilitated its analysis by computational methods and thereby enabled large-scale secondary use thereof. Th...
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Jun 17, 2015
BACKGROUND: Stroke significantly affects thousands of individuals annually, leading to considerable physical impairment and functional disability. Gait is one of the most important activities of daily living affected in stroke survivors. Recent techn...
As healthcare shifts from the hospital to the home, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how patients interact with home medical devices, to inform the safe and patient-friendly design of these devices. Distributed Cognition (DCog) has...
OBJECTIVE: Patient safety event data repositories have the potential to dramatically improve safety if analyzed and leveraged appropriately. These safety event reports often consist of both structured data, such as general event type categories, and ...
OBJECTIVES: To investigate urodynamic efficacy and safety of mirabegron add-on treatment with tamsulosin for Japanese male patients with overactive bladder (OAB).
Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology
Dec 12, 2014
This article reviews several techniques from machine learning that can be used to study the problem of identifying a small number of features, from among tens of thousands of measured features, that can accurately predict a drug response. Prediction ...
OBJECTIVE: Patients with cancer have a high risk of suicide. However, evidence-based preventive measures remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate suicide prevention strategies for hospitalized patients with cancer by analyzing nationwide patie...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Apr 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Robotic systems enhance physicians' capabilities by replicating hand movements in real-time, ensuring precise control and a quick return to conventional procedures if patient safety is compromised. Physicians performing robot-assisted pro...