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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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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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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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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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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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Genetic diversity and natural selection analysis of VAR2CSA and vir genes: implication for vaccine development
Variable surface antigens (VSAs) encoded by var and vir genes in Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax , respectively, are known to be involved...
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Extra-abdominal trocar and instrument detection for enhanced surgical workflow understanding
PurposeVideo-based intra-abdominal instrument tracking for laparoscopic surgeries is a common research area. However, the tracking can only be done...
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Last general practitioner consultation during the final month of life: a national medical record review of suicides in Sweden
ObjectivesIndividuals who die by suicide often consult their general practitioners (GPs) in their final weeks of life. The aim of this study was to...
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No improvement in AUDIT-C screening and brief intervention rates among wait-list controls following support of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: evidence from a cluster randomised trial
BackgroundWhile Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are less likely to drink any alcohol than other Australians, those who drink are...
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New models of health and social care for people in later life: map** of innovation in services in two regions of the United Kingdom using a mixed method approach
BackgroundInnovation for reforming health and social care is high on the policy agenda in the United Kingdom in response to the growing needs of an...
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Self-efficacy of PLHIV for self-management at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundSelf-efficacy is the ability to execute, and it is a critical predictor of health-related outcomes among people living with human...
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Teamwork and implementation of innovations in healthcare and human service settings: a systematic review
BackgroundImplementation of new practices in team-based settings requires teams to work together to respond to new demands and changing expectations....
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Medication nonadherence and associated factors in patients with tuberculosis in Wau, South Sudan: a cross- sectional study using the world health organization multidimensional adherence model
BackgroundTuberculosis medication nonadherence is a multi-dimensional public health problem with serious consequences worldwide. There is little...
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Challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of pure non-gestational uterine choriocarcinoma in a child: a case report
BackgroundDiagnosing non-gestational uterine choriocarcinoma in children is challenging because of its rarity and nonspecific imaging findings....
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Association of cancer treatment with excess heart age among five-year young breast cancer survivors
PurposeData evaluating cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk by cancer treatment among young women (≤ 40 years) with breast cancer are limited.
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Using economic analysis to inform health resource allocation: lessons from Malawi
Despite making remarkable strides in improving health outcomes, Malawi faces concerns about sustaining the progress achieved due to limited fiscal...
