background and aims. the manufacturing process of rotary ni-ti file can influence its resistance to fracture. the rotary profile (dentsply-maillefer, baillagues, switzerland) is manufactured by grinding mechanism whereas twisted file (sybron endo, usa) is manufactured with a twisting method. the purpose of this study was to comparatively evaluate the effect of manufacturing process on distortio...

In this chapter, we introduce document image processing methods and their applications in the field of Medical (and Clinical) Science. Though the use of electronic health record systems are gradually spreading especially among big hospitals in Japan, and e-health environment will be thoroughly available in near future [1–3], a large amount of paper based medical records are still stocked in med...

The completeness of medical records is very important to affect the process services provided by health workers and impact on quality a hospital. Preliminary study results conducted at RSDC Wisma Atlet Kemayoran, filling out resume form 5 10 files no signature name form. Also found, 3 have outgoing diagnostic information. purpose this identify patient's identity, review reports, authenticity co...

The majority of process mining techniques focuses on control flow. Decision Point Analysis (DPA) exploits additional data attachments within log files to determine attributes decisive for branching of process paths within discovered process models. DPA considers only single attribute values. However, in many applications, the process environment provides additional data in form of consecutive m...

To appreciate the Portuguese circumstances concerning situations of obstetric medico-legal conflicts and to evaluate the influence of the quality of files in expert conclusions, an analysis of all cases of obstetric medical responsibility from 2001-11 was carried out. File quality was evaluated by absence or insufficiency of clinical information supplied, by poor quality of document copies and ...

New Mexico leads the nation in poisoning mortality, which has increased during the 1990s in New Mexico and the United States. Most of this increase has been due to unintentional deaths from illicit drug overdoses. Medical examiner and/or vital statistics data have been used to track poisoning deaths. In this study, the authors linked medical examiner and vital statistics records on underlying c...