AIMC Topic: Quality Assurance, Health Care

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Relating Complexity and Error Rates of Ontology Concepts. More Complex NCIt Concepts Have More Errors.

Methods of information in medicine
OBJECTIVES: Ontologies are knowledge structures that lend support to many health-information systems. A study is carried out to assess the quality of ontological concepts based on a measure of their complexity. The results show a relation between com...

Utilization of a 3D printer to fabricate boluses used for electron therapy of skin lesions of the eye canthi.

Journal of applied clinical medical physics
This work describes the use of 3D printing technology to create individualized boluses for patients treated with electron beam therapy for skin lesions of the eye canthi. It aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of 3D-printed over manually fabricate...

Predictive time-series modeling using artificial neural networks for Linac beam symmetry: an empirical study.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Over half of cancer patients receive radiotherapy (RT) as partial or full cancer treatment. Daily quality assurance (QA) of RT in cancer treatment closely monitors the performance of the medical linear accelerator (Linac) and is critical for continuo...

A unified software framework for deriving, visualizing, and exploring abstraction networks for ontologies.

Journal of biomedical informatics
Software tools play a critical role in the development and maintenance of biomedical ontologies. One important task that is difficult without software tools is ontology quality assurance. In previous work, we have introduced different kinds of abstra...

High resolution ion chamber array delivery quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery: Commissioning and validation.

Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
PURPOSE: High precision radiosurgery demands comprehensive delivery-quality-assurance techniques. The use of a liquid-filled ion-chamber-array for robotic-radiosurgery delivery-quality-assurance was investigated and validated using several test scena...

Scotland's knowledge network: a progress report on Knowledge into Action.

Scottish medical journal
Launched in 2012, Knowledge into Action is the national knowledge management strategy for the health and social care workforce in Scotland. It is transforming the role of the national digital knowledge service--NHS Education for Scotlands' Knowledge ...

Robotic radiosurgery system patient-specific QA for extracranial treatments using the planar ion chamber array and the cylindrical diode array.

Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Robotic radiosurgery system has been increasingly employed for extracranial treatments. This work is aimed to study the feasibility of a cylindrical diode array and a planar ion chamber array for patient-specific QA with this robotic radiosurgery sys...

Automated misspelling detection and correction in clinical free-text records.

Journal of biomedical informatics
Accurate electronic health records are important for clinical care and research as well as ensuring patient safety. It is crucial for misspelled words to be corrected in order to ensure that medical records are interpreted correctly. This paper descr...

[Infection prevention check-in and infection prevention check-out to prevent nosocomial infections].

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
BACKGROUND: A precondition for the success of the prevention of SSI is the complete realisation of the proven anti-infective measures in form of the multi-barrier strategy or the so-called bundles. In daily practice it is important to follow the fixe...

Longitudinal evaluation of workflow optimization in radiotherapy: A 4-year retrospective study.

Journal of applied clinical medical physics
BACKGROUND: Efficient workflows are essential for timely, high-quality radiotherapy. In 2020, an internal audit identified key workflow bottlenecks, including long patient wait times, suboptimal treatment planning, and inadequate quality control. Acc...