Medical treatment processes in hospitals are complex interactions of various actors, in the course of which treatment decisions have to be made.Clinical practice guidelines and clinical pathways provide guidance for practicioners for certain diseases. Especially for multimorbid patients several guidelines and pathways might apply. Current process-oriented IT support in hospitals, however, does ...

other, reducing the morbidity associated with bilateral ablations. Related controversy involves the use of microelectrodes for guidance, a technique favored by Cohn et al, versus neuroanatomic guidance and macroelectrode stimulation. Though not discussed in Cohn et al’s manuscript, microelectrode techniques prolong operating room times by three to four times those associated with macroelectrode...

In this paper, after defining pure proportional navigation guidance in the 3-dimensional state from a new point of view, range estimation for passive homing missiles isexplained. Modeling has been performed by using line of sight coordinates with a particulardefinition. To obtain convergent estimates of those state variables involved particularly inrange channel and unavailable from IR trackers...

BACKGROUND Osteoid osteoma is a painful benign osteogenic tumour for which the treatment objective is surgical resection of the nidus. The acetabular fossa is an uncommon site of involvement where surgical access can prove challenging. MATERIALS AND METHODS We report a case-series composed of five patients with osteoid osteoma of the acetabular fossa treated with percutaneous bone resection a...

Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) decreases the duration of entire radiotherapy course (Sanders ME et al 2007). The reduced treatment volume makes APBI more appealing to both clinicians and patients. The uses of brachytherapy either as HDR or LDR interstitial implants have shown promising results which are obvious from the published research works (Arthur DW et al 2003; Baglan KL et...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of the Jeffries/National League for Nursing Framework for Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Simulations. The model was used to develop a simulation-based course to teach interprofessional communication to new graduate nurses in an acute care setting. Design and development research was employed to examine the phases of design, implementa...

Context-aware ubiquitous learning has been recognized as being a promising approach that enables students to interact with real-world learning targets with supports from the digital world. Several researchers have indicated the importance of providing learning guidance or hints to individual students during the context-aware ubiquitous learning process. In this study, an expert system-based gui...

This paper describes research that is performed in the course of a project where a methodology for providing user support plays a central role. Although methodologically we aim at supporting the whole process of applying induc-tive learning techniques, the current paper focussus on support of the data preprocessing phase and getting insight in the data. One of our experiences is that preprocess...

A new guidance document was published in November 2012 by ‘‘HIV in Europe’’, a pan-European initiative constituted by an independent group of experts with representation from civil society, policymakers, health professionals and European public health institutions. This initiative was started in Brussels in 2007 to promote early diagnosis and earlier care of the HIV infection across Europe. The...

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