Only 30% of Ontarians are registered organ donors in spite of the vast unmet need for organ donations in Ontario, Canada. The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) initiative was to increase the number of registered organ donors in a primary care practice by providing an educational fact sheet and registration form to patients in the clinic's waiting room. Three Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycl...

End products are returned in all or in part to the country of the supplier of plasma. The costs involved in establishing a contract fractionation program are substantially less than those involved in establishing and operating a fractionation plant. In the absence of a local fractionation plant, products originating from plasma collected locally can be made available using contract fractionatio...

The goal of this paper is to present a system that provides a friendly interface to manage a broad variety of image modalities and simulation output, in order to facilitate the decision process in endovascular surgery. The challenge is three folds: medical data and simulation are not all in a standardized format. The amount of data generated by medical imaging and image base computational fluid...

Ozone is the triatomic state of oxygen, that is, it is a molecule comprising of three oxygen atoms having the chemical symbol O3. Although ozone does exist naturally, it is a relatively unstable and reactive gas. Therefore ozone exists in the lower atmosphere at low concentrations. The greatest quantities of natural ozone are found at levels of up to 6 ppm in the stratosphere, thus the term the...

The recent hypothesis on the occurrence of sheet structure in the brain has posed many questions to the diffusion MRI (dMRI) community as to whether this structure actually exists and can be measured with dMRI. In this work, we exploit the capability of the discrete Lie bracket to infer information on the existence of sheet structure in real dMRI data.

Usability problem of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems is a major hurdle for their acceptance. In this study we used the methodology of Human-Centered Distributed Information Design (HCDID) to compare and evaluate Flow Sheet module of two commercial EMR systems. After which we tried to develop usable interface of a flow sheet using visualization, focusing on task-representation mapping du...

this study investigated the effects of giving information and the role of individual characteristic in level of anxiety in general surgery operation patients. 112 male and female (with a mean age of 31.8) in two groups of experimental and control subjects were studied. the subjects answered to rater internal-external locus of control scale. then the subjects in the experimental group were given...

The guidance, which follows, applies primarily to multi-centre pharmaceutical studies and encompasses the ICH Good Clinical Practice guidelines. However, the principles and much of the content will be of use to researchers writing information sheets in their particular fields, for trials involving patients, patient volunteers and healthy volunteers. You will find it helpful to refer also to oth...

Jazz music is a genre that consists mainly of improvising over known tunes, represented as a lead sheet. This study addresses the question ‘towhat extent does a lead sheet carry information about its composer?’ Primarily, this study considers chord progressions alone, and secondarily melodic and temporal information combined with various multiple viewpoint models. Using these classifiers, a nov...