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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE?

European Medical Journal Innovations, 2017
Just as in other modern industries, the term ‘innovation’ in healthcare has become associated with new developments in the field that allow for improvements in solving problems, in this instance, healthcare problems.
Leighann Kimble, M. Rashad Massoud
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Is there a correlation between infection control performance and other hospital quality measures? [PDF]

, 2017
Quality measures are increasingly reported by hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), yet there may be tradeoffs in performance between infection control (IC) and other quality measures.
Anderson, Deverick J, Bowling, Jason, Drees, Marci, Harris, Anthony D, Jacob, Jesse T, Li, Shanshan, Morgan, Daniel J, O\u27Hara, Lyndsay M, Pineles, Lisa, Sulis, Carol, Warren, David K   +10 more
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Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Performance Evaluation: Quality [PDF]

, 2014
Fichera, E., Nikolova, S., Sutton, Matthew   +2 more
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Multimodal decision-level fusion for person authentication [PDF]

, 1999
In this paper, the use of clustering algorithms for decision-level data fusion is proposed. Person authentication results coming from several modalities (e.g., still image, speech), are combined by using fuzzy k-means (FKM), fuzzy vector quantization ...
Bors, A.G., Chatzis, V., Pitas, I.
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Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Integrative Neuromuscular Training for Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often exhibit early deficits in muscle and movement competence, which can compromise long‐term health. Integrative neuromuscular training (INT), a multifaceted approach combining fundamental movement activities with strength exercises, may help address these deficits during ...
Anna Maria Markarian, Robert U. Newton, Dennis R. Taaffe, Nicholas G. Gottardo, Santosh Valvi, Carolyn J. Peddle‐McIntyre, Jodie Cochrane Wilkie, Daniel A. Galvão   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Master's programs’ dropout and graduation clusters in a university system with a multiple enrollment policy

International Journal of Educational Research Open
Austria (Europe) allows students to enroll in multiple degree programs simultaneously or consecutively. On the master's degree level this may offer advantages for students, such as a chance for graduation instead of dropping out.
Alexander Karl Ferdinand Loder
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The Role of Invasive Procedures in the Treatment of Complicated Gastrointestinal Graft‐Versus‐Host Disease in Pediatric Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Gastrointestinal graft‐versus‐host disease (GI GVHD) following hematopoietic stem cell transplant is typically managed with medical therapy, but surgery and angioembolization may be warranted in selected cases with life‐threatening complications.
Gaia Brunetti, Giorgio Persano, Chiara Grimaldi, Pier Luigi Di Paolo, Carmen Malaspina, Francesco Quagliarella, Valerio Balassone, Anna Chiara Iolanda Contini, Gian Luigi Natali, Rita Alaggio, Ivan Pietro Aloi, Tamara Caldaro, Alessandro Crocoli   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing health beliefs about osteoporosis among women attending primary health care centres in Qatar

Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 2017
أهداف البحث: هشاشة العظام مشكلة صحية عالمية ويزداد انتشارها في جميع أنحاء العالم. لا يزال سوء الفهم حول هشاشة العظام وعدم وجود إجراءات وقائية بين النساء أمرا شائعا مما يؤكد الحاجة للوقاية الأولية في سن مبكر.
Hissa Al-Muraikhi, ABCM, Mohamad A. Chehab, MBBCh, Hana Said, PhD, Nagah Selim, PhD   +3 more
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Toward Using Wearables to Remotely Monitor Cognitive Frailty in Community-Living Older Adults: An Observational Study

Sensors, 2020
Physical frailty together with cognitive impairment (Cog), known as cognitive frailty, is emerging as a strong and independent predictor of cognitive decline over time.
Javad Razjouyan, Bijan Najafi, Molly Horstman, Amir Sharafkhaneh, Mona Amirmazaheri, He Zhou, Mark E. Kunik, Aanand Naik   +7 more
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