A system for patient management based discrete-event simulation and hierarchical clustering [PDF]
Hospital Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments in England have a 4 hour target to treat 98% of patients from arrival to discharge, admission or transfer. Managing resources to meet the target and deliver care across the range of A&E services is a huge
Chaussalet, T.J. +9 more
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Data sharing in genomics - re-shaping scientific practice [PDF]
Author manuscript. Final version published by Nature. Available online at http://www.nature.com/Funding bodies have recently introduced a requirement that data sharing must be a consideration of all funding applications in genomics.
Boddington, Paula +4 more
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Mitochondrial haplogroups H and J: risk and protective factors for ischemic cardiomyopathy [PDF]
[Abstract] Background. Since mitochondria are the principal source of reactive oxygen species (ROS), these organelles may play an important role in ischemic cardiomyopathy (IC) development. The mitochondrial genome may influence this disease.
Barallobre-Barreiro, Javier +7 more
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Electronic health records to facilitate clinical research
Electronic health records (EHRs) provide opportunities to enhance patient care, embed performance measures in clinical practice, and facilitate clinical research. Concerns have been raised about the increasing recruitment challenges in trials, burdensome
Blomster, JI +17 more
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A systematic review of reviews to identify key research opportunities within the field of eHealth implementation [PDF]
Introduction: This paper is a systematic review of the relevant literature surrounding the implementation and utilisation of eHealth to identify key challenges and opportunities to future eHealth applications. Methods: NHS Evidence, PubMed, IEEE Explorer,
Ahmed, Bakhtiyar +2 more
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Association of Obstructive Sleep Apnea With Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome. [PDF]
Background The prognostic significance of obstructive sleep apnea ( OSA ) in patients with acute coronary syndrome ( ACS ) in the contemporary era is unclear.
Fan, Jingyao +5 more
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Life in Data”—Outcome of a Multi-Disciplinary, Interactive Biobanking Conference Session on Sample Data [PDF]
©Sara Y. Nussbeck et al. 2016; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits any ...
Benson E +11 more
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Solution mining for specific contextualised problems: towards an approach for experience mining [PDF]
In this paper we describe the task of automated mining for solutions to highly specific problems. We do so under the premise of mapping the split view on context, introduced by Brézillon and Pomerol, onto three different levels of abstraction of a ...
Roth-Berghofer, Thomas, Sauer, Christian
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Comparison of herbarium label data and published medicinal use: herbaria as an underutilized source of ethnobotanical information [PDF]
The use of herbarium specimens as vouchers to support ethnobotanical surveys is well established. However, herbaria may be underutilized resources for ethnobotanical research that depends on the analysis of large datasets compiled across multiple sites.
A Vickery +25 more
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Supporting interoperability of genetic data with LOINC [PDF]
Electronic reporting of genetic testing results is increasing, but they are often represented in diverse formats and naming conventions. Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) is a vocabulary standard that provides universal identifiers ...
Deckard, Jamalynne +2 more
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