in this research, gelatin nanoparticles were synthesized via inverse miniemulsion method by employing a mixture of a water soluble carbodiimide (cdi) and n-hydroxysuccinimide (nhs) as a non-toxic cross-linking system. the gelatin nanoparticles were characterized for their size and size distribution, morphology and stability and were compared with those of nanoparticles cross-linked by glutarald...

Record linkage is the process of identifying and linking records about the same entities from one or more databases. Record linkage can be viewed as a classification problem where the aim is to decide if a pair of records is a match (i.e. two records refer to the same real-world entity) or a non-match (two records refer to two different entities). Various classification techniques — including s...

Background. Electronic surveillance systems (ESSs) that utilize existing information in databases are more efficient than conventional infection surveillance methods. The objective was to assess an ESS for bloodstream infections (BSIs) in the Calgary Zone for its agreement with traditional medical record review. Methods. The ESS was developed by linking related data from regional laboratory and...

PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to expand the Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) medical records linkage infrastructure to include data from oral healthcare providers. The goal of this linkage is to facilitate research studies examining the role of oral health in overall health and quality of life. PARTICIPANTS Eight dental practices joined the REP between 2011 and 2015. The REP stu...

Design and Measurements: We used the outcomes of a previously developed probabilistic linkage procedure for different registries in perinatal care assuming independence among linkage variables. We estimated the impact of ignoring dependency by re-estimating the linkage weights after constructing a variable that combines the outcomes of the comparison of 2 correlated linking variables. The resul...

Introduction. Traditionally, clinical guidelines are used by only by clinicians; patient-oriented versions are generally less available. Besides being difficult for patients to use, guidelines can offer conflicting advice, which may lead to confusion and interfere with decision making. For example, medical experts simply do not agree on the frequency of performing the mammography for breast can...

BACKGROUND The interface between acute hospital care and residential aged care has long been recognised as an important issue in aged care services research in Australia. However, existing national data provide very poor information on the movements of clients between the two sectors. Nevertheless, there are national data sets which separately contain data on individuals' hospital episodes and ...

This document describes the work performed by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in its second participation at TAC-KBP 2013 in both the Entity Linking and the Slot Filling tasks.