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Critical values notification: A nationwide survey of practices among clinical laboratories across Nigeria

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2023
Background: Critical value notification (CVN) entails notifying doctors or other laboratory users of aberrant laboratory results that threaten the patient’s life and of any values for which reporting delays could negatively impact the patient’s health ...
Lucius C. Imoh   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Hospital Chemical Laboratory [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the American Medical Association, 1916
To the Editor: —In a comparative study of hospital laboratories recently made by the writer, it became apparent that our present system provides but inadequately for the modern requirements of chemical routine and research in such institutions. In course of time the necessity for modern pathologic, bacteriologic and serologic laboratories has become ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Assessing the impact of emergency department short stay units using length-of-stay prediction and discrete event simulation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Accurately predicting hospital length-of-stay at the time a patient is admitted to hospital may help guide clinical decision making and resource allocation. In this study we aim to build a decision support system that predicts hospital length-of-stay for patients admitted to general internal medicine from the emergency department.
arxiv  

Privacy-aware Early Detection of COVID-19 through Adversarial Training [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Early detection of COVID-19 is an ongoing area of research that can help with triage, monitoring and general health assessment of potential patients and may reduce operational strain on hospitals that cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Different machine learning techniques have been used in the literature to detect coronavirus using routine clinical ...
arxiv  

Accu-Help: A Machine Learning based Smart Healthcare Framework for Accurate Detection of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
In recent years the importance of Smart Healthcare cannot be overstated. The current work proposed to expand the state-of-art of smart healthcare in integrating solutions for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Identification of OCD from oxidative stress biomarkers (OSBs) using machine learning is an important development in the study of OCD. However,
arxiv  

Evaluation of prostate-specific antigen testing: An empirical survey of laboratories in Nigerian tertiary care centers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Medicine and Health Development, 2022
Background: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing has been recommended for prostate cancer screening by the World Health Organization. The combined use of total and free PSA and digital rectal examination is said to improve the sensitivity and ...
Ijeoma A Meka   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

HOSPITAL AND WARD CLINICAL LABORATORIES. [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1900
When I was given the opportunity some months ago by the chairman of this Section to present a paper before the Association, I was and am still interested in the subject expressed in the title of this paper—"Hospital and Ward Clinical Laboratories." I hesitated, however, in bringing such a subject before you, as I felt that a report upon work done along
openaire   +2 more sources

Increasing proportion of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and emergence of a MCR-1 producer through a multicentric study among hospital-based and private laboratories in Belgium from September to November 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) strains have been increasingly reported in Belgium. We aimed to determine the proportion of CPE among Enterobacteriaceae isolated from hospitalised patients and community outpatients in Belgium in 2015 ...
Bauraing, Caroline   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Clinical Utility of the Automatic Phenotype Annotation in Unstructured Clinical Notes: ICU Use Cases [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Objective: Clinical notes contain information not present elsewhere, including drug response and symptoms, all of which are highly important when predicting key outcomes in acute care patients. We propose the automatic annotation of phenotypes from clinical notes as a method to capture essential information, which is complementary to typically used ...
arxiv  

Novel approach to adherence assessment based on parent drug and metabolite pharmacokinetics: pilot study with spironolactone

open access: yesBiomedical Papers
Aim. The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to spironolactone in a group of unselected patients with arterial hypertension by analysis of measured serum spironolactone and canrenone concentrations according to a proposed two-step decision scheme
Alena Pilkova   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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