INTRODUCTION Pharmacies that compound specific drugs for individual patients are an essential part of our health care system. Compounding pharmacies formulate therapeutic and diagnostic products for physicians in practice and those engaged in research. They make individualized chemotherapeutic agents, diagnostic agents, noncommercial formulations (e.g., a liquid rather than a tablet), doses tha...

In ultrasonic medical imaging, spatial compounding of images is a technique where ultrasonic beam is steered to examine patient tissues in multiple angles. In the conventional ultrasonic diagnostic imaging, the steering of the ultrasonic beam is achieved electronically using the phased array transducer elements. In this paper, a spatial compounding approach is presented where the ultrasonic pro...

JCPH – Vol. 66, n 6 – novembre–décembre 2013 400 It was soon realized that the underdosing incident could be replicated in other provinces if proper safety measures were not put into place. A quick review of the regulatory framework for hospital pharmacists and hospital pharmacies across the country indicated that they differ from one province to another. Furthermore, few provinces have regulat...

Spatial-angular compounding is a new technique that enables the reduction of noise artifacts in ultrasound elastography. Under this method, compounded elastograms are obtained from a spatially weighted average of local strain estimated from radio frequency (rf) echo signals acquired at different insonification angles. In previous work, the acquisition of the rf signals was performed through the...

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is an emerging medical imaging modality that relies on the absorption of optical energy and the subsequent emission of acoustic waves that are detected with a conventional ultrasound probe. PA images are susceptible to background noise artifacts that reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). We investigated spatial-angular compounding o...

The objective of this study was to identify drugs that received dose adjustments (DA) and pharmaceutical alternatives (PA) that avoid DA, and calculate the economic percentage of this replacement. A descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study was performed in a second level hospital. The pharmacy and nursing services was accompanied to identify the drugs that received DA and the compou...

Many quantitative ultrasound (QUS) techniques are based on estimates of the radio-frequency (RF) echo signal power spectrum. Historically, reliable spectral estimates required spatial averaging over large regions-of-interest (ROIs). Spatial compounding techniques have been used to obtain robust spectral estimates for data acquired over small regions of interest. A new technique referred to as "...

The clinical study conducted to evaluate the ant diabetes effect of a herbal compound drug consisting two herbs is presented here.

Unknown words are a challenge for any NLP task, including sentiment analysis. Here, we evaluate the extent to which sentiment polarity of complex words can be predicted based on their morphological make-up. We do this on German as it has very productive processes of derivation and compounding and many German hapax words, which are likely to bear sentiment, are morphologically complex. We presen...

These trends promise major benefits that will empower healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, by improving the quality and reducing the cost of patient care. However, these trends also increase privacy and security risks that must be managed to avoid security incidents, such as breaches. Compounding this challenge are the ongoing cost-reduction pressures in healthcare and the limited ...