AIMC Topic: Quality Improvement
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Improving Teamwork: Evaluating Workload of Surgical Team During Robot-assisted Surgery.
Urology
Jun 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the cognitive and physical workload experienced by each operating room team member for different types of urologic procedures.
Knowledge into action - supporting the implementation of evidence into practice in Scotland.
Health information and libraries journal
Jan 1, 2017
BACKGROUND: The knowledge into action model for NHS Scotland provides a framework for librarians and health care staff to support getting evidence into practice. Central to this model is the development of a network of knowledge brokers to facilitate...
Improving diagnostic recognition of primary hyperparathyroidism with machine learning.
Surgery
Dec 15, 2016
BACKGROUND: Parathyroidectomy offers the only cure for primary hyperparathyroidism, but today only 50% of primary hyperparathyroidism patients are referred for operation, in large part, because the condition is widely under-recognized. The diagnosis ...
Identification of Long Bone Fractures in Radiology Reports Using Natural Language Processing to support Healthcare Quality Improvement.
Applied clinical informatics
Nov 9, 2016
BACKGROUND: Important information to support healthcare quality improvement is often recorded in free text documents such as radiology reports. Natural language processing (NLP) methods may help extract this information, but these methods have rarely...
Detection of clinically important colorectal surgical site infection using Bayesian network.
The Journal of surgical research
Oct 5, 2016
BACKGROUND: Despite extensive efforts to monitor and prevent surgical site infections (SSIs), real-time surveillance of clinical practice has been sparse and expensive or nonexistent. However, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (i...
Scotland's knowledge network: a progress report on Knowledge into Action.
Scottish medical journal
Oct 7, 2015
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 ...
How to build up the actionable knowledge base: the role of 'best fit' framework synthesis for studies of improvement in healthcare.
BMJ quality & safety
Aug 25, 2015
Increasing recognition of the role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare offers the prospect of capitalising upon, and consolidating, actionable lessons from synthesis of improvement projects and initiatives. We propose that informed ...
Reducing the incidence of oxyhaemoglobin desaturation during rapid sequence intubation in a paediatric emergency department.
BMJ quality & safety
Jul 16, 2015
OBJECTIVES: Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is the standard for definitive airway management in emergency medicine. In a video-based study of RSI in a paediatric emergency department (ED), we reported a high degree of process variation and frequent a...
An Evaluation of Patient Safety Event Report Categories Using Unsupervised Topic Modeling.
Methods of information in medicine
Apr 2, 2015
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 ...
Validation of the ACS-NSQIP surgical risk calculator for patients with paraoesophageal hernias undergoing robotic repair.
Surgical endoscopy
Aug 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) American College of Surgeons (ACS) risk calculator is a validated method of predicting postoperative complications that was recently updated to a machine-learning structure. The ob...
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