It is important to understand both the usefulness and the inherent limitations of utilizing retrospective recall memory. Retrospective recall has several potential sources of bias. First, compared with concurrent evaluations that rely on short-term memory, recall that utilizes long-term memory may lead to biases such as selectivity of recall, rationality bias, and so forth (East and Uncles 2008...

Emergence of fungal strains showing resistance to triazole drugs can make treatment of fungal disease problematic. Triazole resistance can arise due to single mutations in the drug target lanosterol 14α-demethylase (Erg11p/CYP51). We have determined how commonly occurring single site mutations in pathogenic fungi affect triazole binding using Saccharomyces cerevisiae Erg11p (ScErg11p) as a targ...

introduction: hospital information system (his) is a computerized system used for management of hospital information as an electronic device and has an indispensible role in the field of qualified healthcare services. nevertheless, compared to other industrial and commercial systems, this information system is lagged in using the information technology and applying the controlling standards for...

Hospital information systems (HIS) alerts restricting repeat Clostridium difficile PCR ordering by physicians in patients with a prior result within 7 days eliminated 91% of repeat tests, from 14.5% (282/1,949) repeats preintervention to 1.3% (135/10,285) postintervention. HIS alerting is an effective, targeted, patient-specific tool for improving the quality and utilization of C. difficile res...

OBJECTIVES To compare surgeons' interpretations of intraoperative diagnoses with those rendered by the pathologist. METHODS Consecutive intraoperative diagnoses over a nine-month period were retrospectively reviewed. For each case, operative notes were obtained from the hospital information system. The intraoperative diagnoses listed in the final pathology reports were compared with those dic...

OBJECTIVES A patient accounting system is a subsystem of a hospital information system. This system like other information systems should be carefully designed to be able to meet users' requirements. The main aim of this research was to investigate users' requirements and to determine whether current patient accounting systems meet users' needs or not. METHODS This was a survey study, and the...

A case-mix hospital information system was designed and implemented in Palestine Red Crescent Society hospitals in order to support the network of Palestinian hospitals in Lebanon and to improve the health of refugees in the country. The system is based on routine collection of essential administrative and clinical data for each episode of hospitalization, relying on internationally accepted di...

PURPOSE Much of the information needed for radiology teaching and research is not in the picture archiving and communication system but distributed in hospital information systems throughout the medical enterprise. Our objective is to describe the design, methodology, and implementation of a data warehouse to integrate and make accessible the types of medical data pertinent to radiology researc...