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Estimating National Trends in Inpatient Antibiotic Use Among US Hospitals From 2006 to 2012.

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2016
Importance The rising threat of antibiotic resistance and other adverse consequences resulting from the misuse of antibiotics requires a better understanding of antibiotic use in hospitals in the United States.
J. Baggs, S. Fridkin, L. Pollack, A. Srinivasan, J. Jernigan   +4 more
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Using Artificial Intelligence as a Melanoma Screening Tool in Self-Referred Patients

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 2023
Introduction: Early detection of melanoma requires timely access to medical care. In this study, we examined the feasibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to flag possible melanomas in self-referred patients concerned that a skin lesion might be ...
Madeleine E. Crawford, Kiyana Kamali, Rachel A. Dorey, Olivia C. MacIntyre, Kristyna Cleminson, Michael L. MacGillivary, Peter J. Green, Richard G Langley, Kerri S. Purdy, Ryan Decoste, Jennette R. Gruchy, Sylvia Pasternak, Amanda Oakley, Peter R. Hull   +13 more
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PARTICIPATION OF RAILWAY DEPARTMENT AND RAILWAYS IN ASSISTING THE ARMY AND POPULATION DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article highlights such important aspect of the First World War as charity. The authors analyzed the process of creation and functioning of departmental and «hybrid» charity model combining bureaucratic, private and proprietary and public basis ...
A. I. Narezhny, M. V. Pyatikova
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One country's journey to interoperability: Tanzania's experience developing and implementing a national health information exchange

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021
Background Robust, flexible, and integrated health information (HIS) systems are essential to achieving national and international goals in health and development. Such systems are still uncommon in most low and middle income countries.
Alpha Nsaghurwe, Vikas Dwivedi, Walter Ndesanjo, Haji Bamsi, Moses Busiga, Edwin Nyella, Japhet Victor Massawe, Dasha Smith, Kate Onyejekwe, Jonathan Metzger, Patricia Taylor   +10 more
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Asset specificity and behavioral uncertainty as moderators of the sales growth: Employment growth relationship in emerging ventures [PDF]

, 2009
Sales growth and employment growth are the two most widely used growth indicators for new ventures; yet, sales growth and employment growth are not interchangeable measures of new venture growth.
Chandler, Gaylen N., Davidsson, Per, McKelvie, Alexander   +2 more
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Digital Health Policy and Programs for Hospital Care in Vietnam: Scoping Review

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
BackgroundThere are a host of emergent technologies with the potential to improve hospital care in low- and middle-income countries such as Vietnam.
Duc Minh Tran, C Louise Thwaites, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, Jacob McKnight, An Phuoc Luu, Chris Paton   +5 more
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The exploration of medical resources utilization among inguinal hernia repair in Taiwan diagnosis-related groups

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background This study centered on differences in medical costs, using the Taiwan diagnosis-related groups (Tw-DRGs) on medical resource utilization in inguinal hernia repair (IHR) in hospitals with different ownership to provide suitable reference ...
Yu-Hua Yan, Chih-Ming Kung, Yi Chen
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A Privacy-Preserving Log-Rank Test for the Kaplan-Meier Estimator With Secure Multiparty Computation: Algorithm Development and Validation

JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021
BackgroundPatient data is considered particularly sensitive personal data. Privacy regulations strictly govern the use of patient data and restrict their exchange. However, medical research can benefit from multicentric studies in which patient data from
von Maltitz, Marcel, Ballhausen, Hendrik, Kaul, David, Fleischmann, Daniel F, Niyazi, Maximilian, Belka, Claus, Carle, Georg   +6 more
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The Nonprofit Hospital Exemption of the National Labor Relations Act: Application to the University-Operated Hospital in Duke University [PDF]

, 1972
This work extends our recent work on proving that the particle filter converge for unbounded function to a more general case. More specifically, we prove that the particle filter converge for unbounded functions in the sense of L p-convergence, for an ...
Hu, Xiao-Li, Ljung, Lennart, Schön, Thomas   +2 more
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Trends analysis for drug utilization in county public hospitals: a sample study of the pilot area of health care reform in China

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Changes in the national drug policy always have impact on the drug utilization. In the context of China health care reform, what changes had happened in the trend of drug utilization in public hospitals? Has this change met the expectations of
Xuefeng Xie, Xu Jin, Ling Zhang, Huihui Sun, Aizong Shen, Xiaohui Huang, Yehuan Sun   +6 more
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