Forecasting Influenza Hospitalizations Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Nonlinear Model with Discrepancy [PDF]
arXivThe annual influenza outbreak leads to significant public health and economic burdens making it desirable to have prompt and accurate probabilistic forecasts of the disease spread. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hosts annually a national flu forecasting competition which has led to the development of a variety of flu
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Privacy-Preserving Search for a Similar Genomic Makeup in the Cloud [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 In this paper, we attempt to provide a privacy-preserving and efficient solution for the "similar patient search" problem among several parties (e.g., hospitals) by addressing the shortcomings of previous attempts. We consider a scenario in which each hospital has its own genomic dataset and the goal of a physician (or researcher) is to search for a ...
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Evaluation of the effect of metal stents on dose perturbation in the carbon beam irradiation field
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Propose Carbon ion therapy is indicated for cases in which stents have been inserted, such as bile ducts, but the effect of metal stents on carbon ion therapy is unclear. In this study, the dose perturbation of carbon ion therapy caused by metallic bile duct stents was evaluated by dosimetry. Materials and methods Five different types of metal
Yuya Miyasaka +8 more
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Physicians' working conditions and job satisfaction : does hospital ownership in Germany make a difference? [PDF]
, 2012 Background: A growing number of German hospitals have been privatized with the intention of increasing cost effectiveness and improving the quality of health care.
Groneberg, Jan David Alexander +4 more
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Data linkage studies of primary care utilisation after release from prison: a scoping review
BMC Primary CareBackground Primary care plays a central role in most, if not all, health care systems including the care of vulnerable populations such as people who have been incarcerated.
Janine A. Cooper +4 more
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Accounting for TLD response to CBCT protocols in external beam radiotherapy dose monitoring
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose LiF thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) are commonly used in radiation therapy to verify the delivered dose. Examples include dose verification for complicated treatment setups or cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). TLDs may be present for both the pre‐treatment imaging kilovoltage (kV) beam and the megavoltage (MV ...
Andrew J. White +5 more
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Putting on the brakes : certificate of need regulations try to steer health-care supplies, but it's hard to keep them from fishtailing [PDF]
Medical care, Cost of ; Hospitals - Economic aspects ; Public ...
Charles Gerena
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The Impact of Health Care Reform on California's Children in Immigrant Families [PDF]
, 2011 Examines how 2010 reform provisions limit coverage options for noncitizens and may deter immigrant parents from enrolling citizen children and how the exclusion of uninsured children in immigrant families may affect community clinics and public ...
Livier Cabezas +2 more
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PRODUCTIVITY INDICATORS IN PUBLIC HOSPITALS
Visión de Futuro, 2017 The public hospital is the great receiver par excellence in what refers to traumatized, but that excellence seems to fade in the face of poor building conditions and inefficient processes, product, perhaps, of the imposing current message that states ...
Medina, Orlando Francisco +1 more
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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Background Tumor segmentation is crucial for lung disease diagnosis and treatment. Most existing deep learning‐based automatic segmentation methods rely on manually annotated data for network training. Purpose This study aims to develop an unsupervised tumor segmentation network smic‐GAN by using a similarity‐driven generative adversarial ...
Chengyijue Fang +2 more
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