The Gap between the Admitted and the Measured Technical Debt: An Empirical Study
Technical debt is a well understood and used concept in IT development. The metaphor, rooted in the financial world, captures the amount of work that development teams owe to a product.
Luka Pavlič +3 more
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Profile: The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS). [PDF]
The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS), located on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, was established in 2000 as a record of births, pregnancies, migration events and deaths and is maintained by 4-monthly household visits.
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Introduction: Medical Specialty in Colombia is institutionalized in universities, that is, neither hospitals nor medical-scientific associations can graduate medical specialists.
Marlene Duran Lengua +2 more
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The Royal Free Hospital score: a calibrated prognostic model for patients with cirrhosis admitted to intensive care unit. Comparison with current models and CLIF-SOFA score [PDF]
Prognosis for patients with cirrhosis admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) is poor. ICU prognostic models are more accurate than liver-specific models.
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Hospital performance: costs of acute admitted patients in public hospitals in 2011–12 [PDF]
Some public hospitals spend nearly twice as much money as others to provide similar services to similar groups of patients. Overview Hospitals account for a large share of the funds Australia spends on the health sector each year. In 2011–12, about 30%
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Data privacy and protection in AI-driven healthcare
The concept of keeping health data private is constantly being tested, as what constitutes health data has grown significantly, now including massive amounts of personal information from a variety of sources, such as genomic data, radiological ...
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Background A wide range of outcome measures can be calculated for hospital-treated injury patients. These include mortality, use of critical care services, complications, length of stay, treatment costs, readmission and nursing care after discharge. Each
Dasamal Tharanga Fernando +3 more
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Development of nationally consistent subacute and non-acute admitted patient care data definitions and guidelines [PDF]
In August 2012, the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) engaged the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) to develop nationally consistent definitions and guidelines for subacute and non-acute admitted patient care and care types
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Protests and use of rubber bullets in South Africa: Unspoken pain and trauma of eye injuries
Introduction: The article examines the experiences of protesters and bystanders who have sustained eye injuries from rubber bullets fired by the police. Use of rubber bullets by police officers during public protests is officially regulated, but there is
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Anemia Among Hospital Admitted Patients in Eastern Ethiopia
Mohammed Umer Yusuf,1 Nuredin Abdurahman,1 Haftu Asmerom,2 Tesfaye Atsbaha,1 Adisu Alemu,3 Fitsum Weldegebreal2 1Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia; 2School of
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