Identifying geographical regions serviced by hospitals to assess laboratory-based outcomes

Identifying geographical regions serviced by hospitals to assess laboratory-based outcomes

OBJECTIVE To define geographical regions (forward sortation areas; FSAs) in Southwestern Ontario, Canada from which patients would reliably present to a hospital with linked laboratory data if they developed adverse events related to medications dispensed in outpatient pharmacies. DESIGN Descriptive research. SETTING Forty-five hospitals in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, from 2003 to 2009. ...

Spatial Accessibility to Health Care Services: Identifying under-Serviced Neighbourhoods in Canadian Urban Areas

BACKGROUND Urban environments can influence many aspects of health and well-being and access to health care is one of them. Access to primary health care (PHC) in urban settings is a pressing research and policy issue in Canada. Most research on access to healthcare is focused on national and provincial levels in Canada; there is a need to advance current understanding to local scales such as n...

Deploying a Usability Laboratory to Assess Health

Identifying Blackhole Regions

1. Abstract Intelligence units realized that in operation areas targets avoid using their electronic devices in an area of interest. These targets increasingly employ their evasive techniques to mask their movements and locations. Detecting these regions where targets intentionally mask their movements can help find critical areas which can help the security forces to improve the success rate o...

DangerTrack: A scoring system to detect difficult-to-assess regions

Over recent years, multiple groups have shown that a large number of structural variants, repeats, or problems with the underlying genome assembly have dramatic effects on the mapping, calling, and overall reliability of single nucleotide polymorphism calls. This project endeavored to develop an easy-to-use track for looking at structural variant and repeat regions. This track, DangerTrack, can...