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PATIENT IDENTIFICATION PRACTICES IN A PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2018
Objective: to investigate patient identification practices in a pediatric intensive care unit. Method: a cross-sectional study was carried out in three public hospitals in the South of Brazil.Data collection (identifying items) was performed in 2015 ...
Suelen Cristina Zandonadi Bernal, Daiane Cortez Raimondi, João Lucas Campos de Oliveira, Kelly Cristina Inoe, Laura Misue Matsuda   +4 more
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Federating patients identities: the case of rare diseases

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2018
Background Patient information in rare disease registries is generally collected from numerous data sources, necessitating the data to be federated. In addition, data for research purposes must be de-identified.
Meriem Maaroufi, Paul Landais, Claude Messiaen, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Rémy Choquet   +4 more
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Automatic identification of benign pigmented skin lesions from clinical images using deep convolutional neural network

BMC Biotechnology, 2022
Objective We aimed to develop a computer-aided detection (CAD) system for accurate identification of benign pigmented skin lesions (PSLs) from images captured using a digital camera or a smart phone. Methods We collected a total of 12,836 clinical images
Hui Ding, Eejia Zhang, Fumin Fang, Xing Liu, Huiying Zheng, Hedan Yang, Yiping Ge, Yin Yang, Tong Lin   +8 more
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Selecting the right therapeutic target for kidney disease

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Kidney disease is a complex disease with several different etiologies and underlying associated pathophysiology. This is reflected by the lack of effective treatment therapies in chronic kidney disease (CKD) that stop disease progression.
Lisa Buvall, Robert I. Menzies, Julie Williams, Kevin J. Woollard, Chanchal Kumar, Anna B. Granqvist, Maria Fritsch, Denis Feliers, Anna Reznichenko, Davide Gianni, Slavé Petrovski, Claus Bendtsen, Mohammad Bohlooly-Y, Carolina Haefliger, Regina Fritsche Danielson, Pernille B. L. Hansen   +15 more
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Identification and Management of Patients With Hypertension in the Polyclinic System of the Russian Federation [PDF]

American Journal of Hypertension, 2005
Cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus, are the major determinants of poor health in the Russian Federation.This study assessed the feasibility of establishing a program to identify and manage hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors in an outpatient clinic within the Russian polyclinic system.
Henry M, Greenberg, Albert S, Galyavich, Lilia E, Ziganshina, Maria R, Tinchurina, Albert G, Chamidullin, Richard G, Farmer   +5 more
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Mayo Clinic NLP System for Patient Smoking Status Identification [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2008
This article describes our system entry for the 2006 I2B2 contest "Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data" for the task of identifying the smoking status of patients. Our system makes the simplifying assumption that patient-level smoking status determination can be achieved by accurately classifying individual sentences from a ...
Guergana K, Savova, Philip V, Ogren, Patrick H, Duffy, James D, Buntrock, Christopher G, Chute   +4 more
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16S rRNA gene sequence analysis of a Brucella melitensis infection misidentified as Bergeyella zoohelcum

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011
Misidentification of Brucella species from clinical specimens using commercial bacterial identification systems is a recurring problem. An isolate from a bacterimic patient was identified as Bergeyella zoohelcum by MicroScan Walk-Away (Siemens ...
Nihar Dash, Debadatta Panigrahi, Mansour Al-Zarouni, Sanjeet Mishra   +3 more
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Hospital Malnutrition: Prevalence, Identification and Impact on Patients and the Healthcare System [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2011
Malnutrition is a debilitating and highly prevalent condition in the acute hospital setting, with Australian and international studies reporting rates of approximately 40%. Malnutrition is associated with many adverse outcomes including depression of the immune system, impaired wound healing, muscle wasting, longer lengths of hospital stay, higher ...
Barker, Lisa A., Gout, Belinda S., Crowe, Timothy C.   +2 more
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Combined Use of a Transmission Detector and an EPID-Based In Vivo Dose Monitoring System in External Beam Whole Breast Irradiation: A Study with an Anthropomorphic Female Phantom

Applied Sciences, 2020
We evaluate the combined usage of two systems, the Integral Quality Monitor (IQM) transmission detector and SoftDiso software, for in vivo dose monitoring by simultaneous detection of delivery and patient setup errors in whole breast irradiation.
Chiara Arilli, Yannik Wandael, Chiara Galeotti, Livia Marrazzo, Silvia Calusi, Mattia Grusio, Isacco Desideri, Franco Fusi, Angelo Piermattei, Stefania Pallotta, Cinzia Talamonti   +10 more
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Enhancing Security and Privacy in Healthcare Systems Using a Lightweight RFID Protocol

Sensors, 2023
Exploiting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in healthcare systems has become a common practice, as it ensures better patient care and safety. However, these systems are prone to security vulnerabilities that can jeopardize patient privacy
Muhammad Ayaz Khan, Subhan Ullah, Tahir Ahmad, Khwaja Jawad, Attaullah Buriro   +4 more
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