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Analysis and Architecture of Clinical Workflow Systems using Agent-Oriented Lifecycle Models
Healthcare executives are grappling with a climate of great change in the healthcare industry. This is coming from a number of sources. First, there...
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Current Status of Computerized Decision Support Systems in Mammography
Breast cancer is one of the most devastating and deadly diseases for women today. Despite advances in cancer treatment, early mammographic detection...
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Case-based Medical Informatics
The “applied” nature distinguishes applied sciences from theoretical sciences. To emphasize this distinction, we begin with a general, meta-level...
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Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Based on the DNA Microarray Technology
Immense genomic data have been accumulated through various research activities such as the Human Genome Project. A genome is the entire collection of...
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Computerization of Clinical Guidelines: an Application of Medical Document Processing
Clinical Guidelines are being developed as a tool to promote Best Practice in Medicine. They are usually defined as “systematically developed...
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Wearable Devices in Healthcare
The miniaturization of electrical and electronic equipment is certainly not a new phenomenon, and its effects have long been evident in the...
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Evidence Based Telemedicine
This chapter focuses on evidence based telemedicine and its various applications. Evidence based medicine is the integration of best research...
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Virtual Communities in Health Care
A virtual community is a social entity involving several individuals who relate to one another by the use of a specific communication technology that...
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An analysis of predictors and wealth-based inequality in internet use among women in India: aiming for better digital health outcomes
BackgroundDigital health, aiming to boost healthcare accessibility, is an emerging concept in the domain of healthcare administration and delivery in...
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Effect of modified Baduan** exercise on nutritional status in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundAs a traditional Chinese fitness technique, Baduan** is a low- to medium-intensity aerobic exercise that has a common regulatory effect on...
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Development and validity testing of a matrix to evaluate maturity of clinical pathways: a case study in Saskatchewan, Canada
BackgroundHealthcare systems are transforming into learning health systems that use data-driven and research-informed approaches to achieve...
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“Not me!” a qualitative, vignette-based study of nurses’ and physicians’ reactions to spiritual distress on neuro-oncological units
PurposePeople with primary malignant brain tumors experience serious health-related suffering caused by limited prognosis and high symptom burden....
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Development and validation of a scale to measure the care needs of Crohn’s disease patients: a mixed-methods study
BackgroundCrohn’s disease (CD) patients require varying levels of supportive care. In order to facilitate caregivers and nurses in precisely...
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Breaking the silence: the role of sexual communication on quality of life in women with cervical cancer
IntroductionCervical cancer (CC) and its treatments impact various dimensions of quality of life (QoL), including physical, psychological, and sexual...
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Primary health care response to noncommunicable diseases: an assessment of Wellness Clinics in Ghana
BackgroundGlobally, there is a significant unmet need for the rapidly growing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Ghana has adopted and...
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Barriers to and facilitators of implementing colorectal cancer screening evidence-based interventions in federally qualified health centers: a qualitative study
BackgroundThere is an urgent need to increase colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) uptake in Texas federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), which...
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Laryngeal cancer incidence trends in the United States over 2000–2020: a population-based analysis
IntroductionLaryngeal cancers account for one-third of all head and neck cancers. We aimed to report the incidence trends of laryngeal cancer over...
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Towards multimodal graph neural networks for surgical instrument anticipation
PurposeDecision support systems and context-aware assistance in the operating room have emerged as the key clinical applications supporting surgeons...
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Adopting a systems-thinking approach to optimise dietary and exercise referral practices for cancer survivors
PurposeService referrals are required for cancer survivors to access specialist dietary and exercise support. Many system-level factors influence...
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Communication patterns in families affected by parental cancer from the healthy parents’ perspective—process evaluation of the complex intervention Family-SCOUT
PurposeWithin families affected by parental cancer, open communication impacts the well-being of parents and their children; however, limited...