Using administrative databases for outcomes research: select examples from VA Health Services Research and Development.

abstract：:Breast malignancy is the second most common cause of cancer death among women in Western countries. Identifying high-risk patients is vital in order to provide them with specialized treatment. In some situations, such as when access to experienced oncologists is not possible, decision support methods can be helpful in...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Razavi AR,Gill H,Ahlfeldt H,Shahsavar N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of teams in health care has generally relied on the notion that teams must physically meet and function in person in the same location, on a regular, scheduled basis, in order to maximize the value of the interdisciplinary process. This article examines the concept of creating a different kind of team in prima...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Rothschild SK,Lapidos S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tricyclic antidepressants are known as potentially inappropriate medications in the elderly. A notification issued in July 2015 in South Korea recommended caution while prescribing tricyclic antidepressants to the elderly. Further, since October 2015, the nationwide computerized drug utilization review monitoring syst...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Park MJ,Kim MH,Shin SM,Chung SY

更新日期：2018-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, human activity recognition from body sensor data or wearable sensor data has become a considerable research attention from academia and health industry. This research can be useful for various e-health applications such as monitoring elderly and physical impaired people at Smart home to improve their ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Hassan MM,Huda S,Uddin MZ,Almogren A,Alrubaian M

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Smart clothing is a sort of wearable device used for ubiquitous health monitoring. It provides comfort and efficiency in vital sign measurements and has been studied and developed in various types of monitoring platforms such as T-shirt and sports bra. However, despite these previous approaches, smart clothing for ele...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Cho H,Lee JH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new denoising algorithm using Fast Guided Filter and Discrete Wavelet Transform is proposed to remove Gaussian noise in an image. The Fast Guided Filter removes some part of the details in addition to noise. These details are estimated accurately and combined with the filtered image to get back the final denoised im...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Majeeth SS,Babu CNK

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) reconstructed images have been increasingly applied for medical education. Although many studies have described the benefits of such applications, the best time to introduce 3D technology into surgical training has not been determined. Therefore, we conducted a randomized study to determine a su...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Lin C,Gao J,Zheng H,Zhao J,Yang H,Zheng Y,Cao Y,Chen Y,Wu G,Lin G,Yu J,Li H,Pan H,Liao Q,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer diagnosis can be done through the pathologic assessments of breast tissue samples such as core needle biopsy technique. The result of analysis on this sample by pathologist is crucial for breast cancer patient. In this paper, nucleus of tissue samples are investigated after decomposition by means of the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Issac Niwas S,Palanisamy P,Chibbar R,Zhang WJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The healthcare industry is streamlining processes to offer more timely and effective services to all patients. Computerized software algorithm and smart devices can streamline the relation between users and doctors by providing more services inside the healthcare telemonitoring systems. This paper proposes a multi-sou...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Salman OH,Rasid MF,Saripan MI,Subramaniam SK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents a method for liver isolation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abdomen images. It is based on a priori statistical information about the shape of the liver obtained from a training set using the segmentation approach. Morphological watershed algorithm is used as a key technique as it is a simple a...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Rajasvaran L,Haw TW,Sarker SZ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care in the United States is rarely delivered in a coordinated manner. Current methods to share patient information are inefficient and may lead to medical errors, higher readmission rates, and delays in the delivery of needed health services. This qualitative study describes lessons learned concerning the earl...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Dobalian A,Claver ML,Pevnick JM,Stutman HR,Tomines A,Fu P Jr

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparatory sensory information (PSI) has been found to have significant effects in reducing distress, tension, restlessness, negative moods, and anxiety, and also in reducing length of postoperative hospitalization during various threatening medical events, but no evidence has demonstrated the effect of PSI on a pati...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Shi SF,Munjas BA,Wan TT,Cowling WR 3rd,Grap MJ,Wang BB

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the extent to which health studies, mostly in public health and epidemiology, used geographical information systems (GIS). We identified a wide range of tools they used-ranging from geocoding through simple buffer/overlay functions to spatial query functions. However, studies tend to rely on tools ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Chung K,Yang DH,Bell R

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the development of information technologies and network technologies, healthcare systems have been employed in many countries. As an important part of healthcare systems, the wireless body area network (WBAN) could bring convenience to both patients and physicians because it could help physicians to monitor pat...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Wang C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous paper, the authors described three paradigms applicable to automated medical text analysis. In this paper, the relative importance of the three paradigms is discussed, viz. the relative value of the linguistic word categorization, the semantic paradigm, and the medical fact delineation. The strategy adop...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Gabrieli ER,Speth DJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention to the quality of information in design of a medical information system is fundamental to the success of that system. This point is made using WWI and WWII combat casualty statistics. While the analyses presented are legitimate, serious problems of interpretation arise from the operational definitions used i...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Henderson JV

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we systematically evaluate the performance of several state-of-the-art local feature detectors and descriptors in the context of longitudinal registration of retinal images. Longitudinal (temporal) registration facilitates to track the changes in the retina that has happened over time. A wide number of l...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Saha SK,Xiao D,Frost S,Kanagasingam Y

更新日期：2018-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 1% of the people in the world suffer from epilepsy. Careful analyses of the electroencephalograph (EEG) records can provide valuable insight and improved understanding of the mechanisms causing epileptic disorders. Predicting the onset of epileptic seizure is an important and difficult biomedical problem...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Kiymik MK,Subasi A,Ozcalik HR

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have looked at the relationship between serum urate and the molar equivalent serum antioxidant capacity (MESA) in diabetic and normal individuals who attended St Bartholomew's Hospital diabetic clinic and BUPA Health Screening Centre, London, and have compared serum antioxidant capacity between the two groups. Samp...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Pearl A,Hale A,Whitehead T

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the relevance between the TG-to-HDL-C ratio and stent restenosis. Ninety-nine patients with in-stent stenosis (ISR) who were admitted to An Zhen Hospital in Beijing between April 2014 and June 2017 were selected. At the same time, 122 patients with coronary stenosis <50% were selected. All patients were ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Li Y,Jin P,Hou F,Zhou Y

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper surveys the problem of predictive / reactive scheduling of an integrated operating theatre with two types of demand for surgery: 1) elective or known demand; 2) emergency or uncertain demand. The stochastic arrival of emergency patients with uncertain surgery time enforces the scheduler to react to disrupti...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Heydari M,Soudi A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic peak detection of auditory brainstem responses is a multistage process. The main task is the detection of the pedestal peak, which is a broad peak filtered out from the auditory brainstem signal. Special validation stages have been used to determine whether a real response is present, and if so, peak V is de...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Grönfors TK

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates trends in efficiency among American hospital markets. A total of 6010 hospitals were identified for use in the analysis from the American Hospital Association's Annual Surveys for 1989 and 1993. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA), a longitudinal study of hospital efficiency was conducted on all...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Wang BB,Ozcan YA,Wan TT,Harrison J

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wearable monitoring devices are an innovative way to measure heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV), however, there is still debate about the validity of these wearables. This study aimed to validate the accuracy and predictive value of the Empatica E4 wristband against the VU University Ambulatory Monitorin...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Schuurmans AAT,de Looff P,Nijhof KS,Rosada C,Scholte RHJ,Popma A,Otten R

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermoregulatory control of human skin blood flow is vital to maintain the body heat storage during challenges of thermal homeostasis under heat stress. Whenever thermal homeostasis disturbed, the heat load exceeds heat dissipation capacity, which alters the cutaneous vascular responses along with other body physi...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Aggarwal Y,Karan BM,Das BN,Sinha RK

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among high volume procedures considerable variation exists in the average cost per case (ACPC) of surgical supplies used between surgeons. A contributing factor to these cost differences are divergences in surgeons' preference cards, which act as a guide to hospital staff for the supplies a surgeon requires to success...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Geppert P,Daily B,Casanova S

更新日期：2020-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper will address the complex issues of effective cost management and declining inpatient volume. Utilizing a microcomputer-based physician incentive compensation program, it will show how a hospital developed a plan to increase inpatient hospital utilization and improve cost management. It will discuss the Inte...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Annis RJ,Holton JW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study is to assess the feasibility of Drugs Rational Usage Guideline System (DRUGS)-supported clinical pathway (CP) for breast carcinoma, cataract, inguinal hernia and 2-diabetes mellitus whether the application of such a system could improve work efficiency, medical safety, and decrease hospital cost. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Wang S,Zhu X,Zhao X,Lu Y,Yang Z,Qian X,Li W,Ma L,Guo H,Wang J,Wen A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exertional heat illness is primarily a multi-system disorder results from the combined effect of exertional and thermoregulation stress. The severity of exertional heat illness can be classified as mild, intermediate and severe from non-specific symptoms like thirst, myalgia, poor concentration, hysteria, vomiting, we...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Aggarwal Y,Karan BM,Das BN,Aggarwal T,Sinha RK

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study is to evaluate Auditory Evoked Potentials (AEPs) in patients with hyperthyroidism and to compare their frequency components with those of healthy subjects. In this study the AEPs in hyperthyroidism were studied both in time and frequency domains rather than studying just in the time domain by ...

journal_title：Journal of medical systems

authors： Güven A,Altınkaynak M,Dolu N,Ünlühızarcı K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00