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Validation of a Proprietary Deterioration Index Model and Performance in Hospitalized Adults

JAMA Network Open, 2023
ImportanceThe Deterioration Index (DTI), used by hospitals for predicting patient deterioration, has not been extensively validated externally, raising concerns about performance and equitable predictions.ObjectiveTo locally validate DTI performance and assess its potential for bias in predicting patient clinical deterioration.Design, Setting, and ...
Byrd, Thomas F., Southwell, Bronwyn, Ravishankar, Adarsh, Tran, Travis, Kc, Abhinab, Phelan, Tom, Melton-Meaux, Genevieve B., Usher, Michael G., Scheppmann, Daren, Switzer, Sean, Simon, Gyorgy, Tignanelli, Christopher J.   +11 more
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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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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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Use of remdesivir for COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with advanced kidney disease: A retrospective multicenter study

Clinical Infection in Practice, 2022
Background and objectives: Remdesivir, an antiviral drug routinely used in the treatment of COVID-19 has not yet received FDA approval for use in patients with advanced kidney disease defined as GFR 
F. Stancampiano, N. Jhawar, W. Alsafi, J. Valery, D.M. Harris, P. Kempaiah, S. Shah, M.G. Heckman, H. Siddiqui, C.R. Libertin   +9 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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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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A Datasheet for the INSIGHT Birmingham, Solihull, and Black Country Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Dataset

Ophthalmology Science, 2023
Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common microvascular complication associated with diabetes mellitus (DM), affecting approximately 40% of this patient population.
Aditya U. Kale, MBBS, Andrew Mills, Emily Guggenheim, PhD, David Gee, Samuel Bodza, MS, Aparna Anumakonda, Rima Doal, MSc, Rowena Williams, MSc, Suzy Gallier, BSc, Wen Hwa Lee, PhD, Paul Galsworthy, BA, Manjit Benning, BSc (Hons), FCMI, Hilary Fanning, Pearse A. Keane, MD, FRCOphth, Alastair K. Denniston, PhD, Susan P. Mollan, FRCOphth   +15 more
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Versatile vector tools for efficient protein screening across multiple expression systems

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
A unified vector toolkit enables rapid protein expression screening across E. coli, insect, and mammalian cells. A single primer pair amplifies the target gene, which is inserted into any vector via a standardized interface. This streamlined workflow eliminates repeated cloning steps, accelerating the identification of optimal expression conditions for
Zhimin Zhu, Yaqing Liu, Lei Qin, Feng Yu, Qisheng Wang, Yahui Liu   +5 more
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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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Diffusion Spectrum Imaging Maps Early Axonal Loss and a Unique Progressive Signal in Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusion Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To delineate specific in vivo white matter pathology in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) using diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) and define its clinical relevance. Methods DSI was performed on 42 NIID patients and 38 matched controls.
Kaiyan Jiang, Yixiu Pei, Xiaobao Hu, Ying Xiong, Fang Wang, Yanyan Yu, Min Zhu, Dandan Tan, Meihong Zhou, Daojun Hong, Fuqing Zhou   +10 more
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