This paper analyzes the linguistic phenomena in medical records in different departments, including average record size, vocabulary, entropy of medical languages, grammaticality, and so on. Five retrieval models with six pre-processing strategies on different parts of medical records are explored on an NTUH medical record dataset. Both coarse-grained relevance evaluation on department level and...

Objective U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) partnered with the Florida Department of Health (FDOH), Bureau of Epidemiology, to implement a new process for the unidirectional exchange of electronic medical record (EMR) data when ASPR clinical assets are operational in the state following a disaster or other r...

background: continuous improvement of quality in higher education is the ultimate goal of any medical school. evaluation of research and educational status makes it possible to judge about the quality of educational achievements in a system. thus we evaluated the educational and research status of microbiology and virology department, faculty of medicine in mashhad university of medical science...

background incomplete hospitalization is the cause of disease relapse, readmission, and increase in medical costs. discharge against medical advice (dama) in emergency department (ed) is critical for hospitals. this paper aims to explore the underlying reasons behind dama in ed of four teaching hospitals in kerman, iran.   methods this was a cross-sectional study in which the samples were drawn...

introduction: job satisfaction is one of the key factors affecting professional success which, in turn, allows an organization to achieve its objectives. and ultimately it can result in individual and social health. thus, managers are highly concerned with factors affecting job satisfaction. in this study, it was decided to investigate factors determining the staff's job satisfaction. methods a...

initial management, incidence and review of hydatidiform mole, chorioadenoma and destruens and chorio carcinoma in mirza kochek khan hospital department of ob.gyn and gynecology oncology of women's hospital tehran-iran school of medicin from september 1985 to march 1990, 209 patients received primary management for hydatidiform mole at oncology department of mirza kochek khan hospital medi...