... Application tothe Health- care Domain As a prominent use case, we applied our exploration system tothe health- care domain With the advent of the internet and social media, patients now have access to ... as the roots of the DAG As a starting point, only the roots of the DAG are displayed tothe user Figure shows the five roots for the ‘asthma’ query Exploration process The user selects one of the ... language phrases to over one million unique concept identifiers (CUIs) in the healthcare domain The CUIs are also mapped in UMLS to a concept taxonomy for the health- care domain The web application...
... need to know their own A1C values and whether they are reaching their targets For Team Care- Related resources see page 37 Redesigning theHealthCareTeam Chronic Disease and theHealthCare Delivery ... Redesigning theHealthCareTeam Patients pay for their care through TRICARE, the single-payer healthcare program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System Outcomes From the ... decision-makers to commit tothe implementation of multidisciplinary teamcare and the necessary resources and infrastructure to enable theteamto function A planning group can then carry out the next...
... My brother Charlie, who used to live in the Middle East and write books about the Old West, now lives in Hartford, Connecticut Don’t capitalize directions They moved up north, tothe southern ... Next fall, before the winter storms begin, we’re heading south A CAPITAL IDEA! The Uses and Rules of Capital Letters Capitalize the names of historical events The Battle of the Bulge was an important ... confusion The County and City have agreed to reimburse the federal government for sewer expenses would not capitalize those names You in a newspaper report, say At the last council meeting, the county...
... and the availability of services This healthcareteam is composed of public health agents, hospital administrators, health educators, sanitarians, and others 24 THEHEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE ... thehealthcare industry that further refined the Patient’s Bill of Rights Its five care provisions were: • The right to treatment information • The right to privacy and dignity • The right to ... treatment • The right to emergency care • The right to an advocate Each of these rights contains additional provisions to help the consumer understand their meaning and obtain the best careThe concept...
... burden19,20 At the same time, thehealth sector lacks the expertise to mitigate the adverse effects on health from other sectors and make the most of what these other sectors can contribute to health2 1 ... meant to transform conventional health- care delivery into primary care, optimizing the contribution of health services local health systems, health- care networks, health districts tohealth ... similar to Brazil their rights tohealth Some of the countries that have made very significant strides towards ensuring access tocare for their citizens fail to offer the same rights to other residents...
... their contributions tothehealth sector are relevant Somalis living abroad are reported to contribute significantly tothe economy of the country Funding for health reaches the beneficiaries to ... following the resolution of the drought, and to lower OFDA contributions due tothe USAID decision to reduce overall funding to Somalia to avoid the diversion of aid to groups linked to Al Qaeda The totals ... financing tothe sector, and the GFATM accounted for 13 percent of the total financing MSF became the largest financier tothe sector in 2009, providing more financing than all the UN agencies together...
... tool’ to be used by the palliative careteamto make sure that a person’s care needs are met and their discharge is properly planned The Trust apologised for the shortcomings in Mr D’s careThe ... standards of care experiences of the patients concerned and the stark contrast between the reality of thecare they Thereport is also available to read and download received and the principles ... needed to be hospitalised since, enjoyed life, and participated in the activities in thecare home, including playing dominos After complaining first tothe Trust and then tothe Healthcare Commission,...
... Maryland: The Partners for Health ReformPlus, Abt Associates; 2005 Moreover, countries are likely to be very alert tothe cost of such initiatives and to compare them with other strategies to strengthen ... resentment There also was a shared perception that expatriate volunteers are too unfamiliar with local epidemiology, the local practice of healthcare and the organization of thehealth system They ... and health service managers from the south regarding the role of international health volunteers Finally, we identify factors of successful contribution of international health volunteers to health...
... feedback tool to increase walking in healthy individuals [41,42] and sedentary adults [43] While some of the factors reported to contribute to HRQL are not modifiable (e.g age), other factors are ... community and 2) to assess the relationship between the functional ability (motor impairments of lower extremity, balance and walking distance) of these individuals tothe amount of daily PA they undertake ... needed, individuals were allowed to slow down or sit to take a break but the stopwatch was not stopped The number of meters walked within the six minutes was recorded; further distance walked indicated...
... referred to a single respiratory intensive care unit with an affiliated intermediate care ward Our objectives were to describe the characteristics of the patients managed using one of the three ... contributions 18 Dr Fartoukh had full access tothe data and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis 19 20 Study concept and design: Fartoukh, Cadranel ... confirm the safety and the reproducibility of such a therapeutic approach; this approach may also be influenced by the use of the multi detector row helical CT scan, which can depict accurately the...
... Many of these pilgrims are elderly with underlying chronic illnesses, making them especially susceptible to infectious illnesses Second, thehealthcare system in the Kingdom grew rapidly to state-of -the- art ... results therefore reflect the outcome of septic patients in a tertiary care centre and they may not be generalizeable to all hospitals in the country However, the study gives some insight into this ... recently, these definitions were revisited; the concept of SIRS was challenged, and the definitions of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock were maintained [7] The second factor was the lack...
... admitted tothe ICU is made jointly by the senior intensivist and the oncologist who is responsible for the patient's careTo be admitted tothe ICU, patients should be considered to have a chance ... year tothe ICU The ICU uses a patient data management system, which allows automatic capture and registration of physiological data The decision regarding whether a patient should be admitted to ... patients as having a poor prognosis and tend to oppose their admission tothe ICU [3] Recent studies [4,5] have indicated that this reluctance to offer ICU careto cancer patients with severe illness...
... stimuli [14] Serving as a reflection of the brain’s auditory change detection mechanism, the MMN corresponds to an automatic coding process into the sensori-auditory memory, and represents a relatively ... perfectly plausible hypotheses but they are unable to make a definitive statement, and they are drawn tothe provisional conclusion that further complementary studies are necessary They also suggest ... difficult to derive from the results reported by Yppärilä and coworkers [1], their findings Available online http://ccforum.com/content/8/6/437 nevertheless have merit because they open the field to...
... Given the serious implications of any degree of AKI on the individual and thehealth system, and the lack of curative therapies for AKI, it may be necessary to shift our attention more tothe actual ... the right direction to tackle the problems associated with established AKI [6] The study by Kolhe and colleagues in Critical Care illustrates that we may need to focus our attention also on the ... the field The success of these simple non-technical steps depends on combined efforts by anybody looking after patients in hospital The overall action plan to reduce the burden of AKI needs to...
... 7.45 (7.41 to 7.47) 7.44 (7.41 to 7.47) 0.59 63 (55 to 74) 64 (55 to 73) 0.62 (4 to 9) (4 to 9) 0.81 137 (134 to 139) 137 (134 to 139) 0.63 (6 to 9) (6 to 9) 0.97 39 (35 to 42) 39 (36 to 42) 0.48 ... (0.7 to 1.6) 1.2 (0.8 to 1.8) 1099 1.3 (0.7 to 2.1) 1.9 (1.2 to 2.9) II to 1498 5.5 (4.4 to 6.8) 6.0 (4.8 to 7.3) 633 7.1 (5.2 to 9.4) 4.4 (3.0 to 6.3) III to 419 11.0 (8.2 to 14.4) 9.1 (6.5 to ... to 18.2) 7.9 (4.2 to 13.2) IV ≥9 166 27.1 (20.5 to 34.5) 15.1 (10.0 to 21.4) 71 32.4 (21.7 to 44.5) 22.5 (13.5 to 34.0) 4593 4.4 (6.0 to 7.4) 4.0 (3.4 to 4.6) 1967 5.2 (5.8 to 8.0) 4.0 (3.1 to...
... education for health- care personnel at the hospital The compliance to evidence-based interventions at the beginning of the hospital program was very similar to that reported by others in emergency ... Nevertheless, the application of these bundles so far has been demonstrated to be quite poor in most surveys, confirming the difficulty of transferring evidence tothe clinical practice [4-12] The ... both before and after ICU admission Nevertheless, also in the last period of the study we were able to complete all the sepsis bundles only in 35 to 40% of the patients Numerous activities, besides...
... funding of thehealthcare generally and the ICU specifically, there is often a limit tothe availability and specialization of this form of care [6].Besides allocation of resources, intensive care ... relative were requested to sign a written informed consent before being enrolled into the study Results There were a total of 312 trauma admissions tothe ICU during the period under study, representing ... this period Despite thecare provided by ward healthcare workers while patients were waiting for ICU bed availability, these healthcare providers were not trained in critical care and were not...
... physiotherapists, podiatrists and radiographers (otherwise known as allied health professionals) However, the book may be of interest to other healthcare professionals The book aims to provide the ... before being swallowed The oesophagus conveys food tothe stomach In the stomach food is stored while further digestion takes place The stomach produces acid and enzymes to begin protein digestion ... prescribed drugs As professionals, they should be able to advise patients or know when to refer them to other experts in thehealthcareteam Drug therapy of disease is ever expanding; new drugs exist...
... asked to describe the types and quality of health and social services available to them and the additional services they felt they needed They were also asked to identify barriers limiting their ... time trying to get their message out tothe doctors or to understand what the doctors are trying to tell them (personal communication, March 2006) ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation refers to how appropriate ... were at a disadvantage, as they had to pay an escort from the community to take them to their appointments in other communities ACCEPTABILITY: Acceptability refers tothe compatibility of attitudes...
... objective of a national health service is to 24 THEHEALTH SERVICE AS CIVIL ASSOCIATION sustain thehealth of a population (or to provide healthcareto that population), then the specificity of its ... labour and healthcare In this chapter, I will focus on the practice of health care, most notably on the way the problem of scarcity of resources and healthcare facilities is to be solved The moral ... and healthcare facilities are to be distributed fairly among individuals in order to allow them to achieve their private goals and to satisfy their private needs Somehow, the urgency of the...