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Wireless Sensor Network based System for the Prevention of Hospital Acquired Infections [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
Hospital acquired infections are a serious threat to the health and well-being of patients and medical staff within clinical units. Many of these infections arise as a consequence of medical personnel that come into contact with contaminated persons, surfaces or equipment and then with patients, without following proper hygiene procedures.
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Autofluorescence Imaging and Virtual Histological Staining of Human Prostate Sections for Cancer Diagnosis

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Autofluorescence imaging with virtual histological staining streamlines postoperative histopathology. Using a deep ultraviolet light‐emitting diode (LED)‐based imaging system and a weakly supervised deep learning model, virtual hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)‐stained images are generated from the autofluorescence of prostate tissue. Pathologist evaluations
Mingxuan Si, Weixing Dai, Ivy H. M. Wong, Yan Zhang, Tony K. F. Ma, Ping Wing Ng, Kwok Hung Li, Sylvia M. S. Wong, John H. K. Ngan, Terence T. W. Wong   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Occupational Safety and Health in Hospitals from the Point of Nurses [PDF]

, 2009
Hospitals have many forms of danger due to many different working conditions. Hospital personnel also take risks whilst providing health care which may cause health problems to themselves.
Havva Ozturk, Nefise Bahcecik
core   +1 more source

Mobile Health Care over 3G Networks: the MobiHealth Pilot System and Service [PDF]

, 2004
Health care is one of the most prominent areas for the application of wireless technologies. New services and applications are today under research and development targeting different areas of health care, from high risk and chronic patients’ remote ...
Bults, Richard, Halteren, Aart van, Herzog, Rainer, Jones, Val, Konstantas, Dimitri, Wac, Katarzyna, Widya, Ing   +6 more
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Evaluating the attitude of Shahid Beheshti Hospital personnel in Hamadan, Iran, toward patient safety culture

Chronic Diseases Journal
BACKGROUND: Nowadays, attention to patient safety is important in providing hospital services, and any failure to do so can have adverse consequences. Safety is one of the most salient rights of patients when receiving health services.
Abbas Abdolvand, Seyed Ali Mahdiyoun , Elahe Mousavi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens,
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Lellis, Federica De Cordova, Erica Briozzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Service capacity and disability resource integration: A strategic survey of immigrant and refugee‐serving agencies in Illinois

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants and refugees in the United States often face significant barriers in accessing social services, including mental health support, legal assistance, ESL or related education, housing, vocational training, workforce resources, transportation, and citizenship support. This article explores the strengths and challenges of community‐based
Rooshey Hasnain, Charles E. Hounmenou, Adrienne B. Smith, Timothy P. Johnson, Diane M. Kondratowicz, Jamie M. Taradash, Akash Rohidas Shinde, Francisco Alvarado   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public hospital costs and quality in the Dominican Republic [PDF]

Measuring costs in public hospitals in developing countries is hampered by the lack of an appropriate costing system, or of any systematic cost accounting. Invoices for goods and services, prices for inputs, and patient records are generally absent. As a
LaForgia, Gerard M., Lewis, Maureen A., Sulvetta, Margaret B.   +2 more
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Classical and Late‐Onset SOS/VOD After Allogeneic HSCT: A Japanese Transplant Registry Analysis

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome/veno‐occlusive disease (SOS/VOD) is a lethal complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo‐HSCT). According to the 2016 European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation criteria, SOS/VOD is classified into classical SOS/VOD and late‐onset SOS/VOD, but their similarities and ...
Kyoko Masuda, Keisuke Kataoka, Masatoshi Sakurai, Yuho Najima, Naonori Harada, Shoko Ukita, Naoyuki Uchida, Noriko Doki, Takahiro Fukuda, Masatsugu Tanaka, Hiroyuki Ohigashi, Jun Ishikawa, Satoshi Yoshihara, Masashi Sawa, Shuichi Ota, Yoshinobu Kanda, Tetsuya Nishida, Makoto Onizuka, Yoshiko Atsuta, Hideki Nakasone, Kimikazu Yakushijin   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Component Based Heuristic Search Method with Evolutionary Eliminations [PDF]

INFORMS Journal of Computing, 21 (3), 468-479, 2008, 2009
Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. This paper presents a new component-based approach with evolutionary eliminations, for a nurse scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital.
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