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BMC Cancer, 2018 Background Despite the fact that the cost-effectiveness of robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) is not yet proven, and open radical (ORC) cystectomy is recommended as the standard of care in patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive and muscle ...
C. J. Wijburg +5 more
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BJS Open, 2020 Background Serious preventable surgical events still occur despite considerable efforts to improve patient safety. In addition to learning from retrospective analyses, prospective risk‐assessment methods may help to decrease preventable events further by
A. J. Heideveld‐Chevalking +4 more
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Anesthesiology, 2019 Abstract Operating room fires are rare but devastating events. Guidelines are available for the prevention and management of surgical fires; however, these recommendations are based on expert opinion and case series. The three components of an operating room fire are present in virtually all surgical procedures: an oxidizer (oxygen, nitrous ...
Ian H. Black +3 more
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Assignment of Medical Staff to Operating Rooms in Disaster Preparedness: A Novel Stochastic Approach
IEEE transactions on engineering management, 2020 Following a large-scale disaster in a highly populated city, one can expect a large number of injured people to need urgent operation. If it can be assumed that the city in question is likely to experience a disaster (although the time of its occurrence ...
Seyed Mahdi Shavarani +2 more
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Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2023 Background The Israeli physician workforce faces multiple challenges. These include planned policies reducing physician on-call from 26 to 18 h and, from 2026, allowing only graduates of Ministry of Health approved foreign medical schools to take the ...
Ariel Wimpfheimer +4 more
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Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2019 Background The Bladder Cancer Index (BCI) and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bladder-Cystectomy (FACT-Bl-Cys) were developed to measure disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in bladder cancer patients and patients treated with ...
Charlotte T. J. Michels +5 more
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017 Background Data on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is paramount for shared and evidence based decision-making. Since an overview of cervical cancer HRQoL tools and their validity appears to be lacking, we performed a systematic review on usage of ...
Casper Tax +4 more
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THE OPERATING-ROOM AND THE PATIENT
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1906 Mode of access: Internet.
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Energy use optimization in ventilation of operating rooms during inactivity periods
Building Research & Information, 2020 Hospitals are highly energy-demanding buildings, where simple actuations can involve large savings. However, energy efficiency actions must comply with the high safety standards.
A. Tejero‐González +3 more
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Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2018 Background Currently, a PET-CT is used to assess the need for extended field radiotherapy of para-aortic lymph nodes (PALN) in International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IB2, IIA2–IVA (locally advanced stage) cervical cancer.
Casper Tax +4 more
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