Some people suffering from diabetes use insulin injection pumps to control the blood glucose level. Sometimes, the fault may occur in the sensor or actuator of these pumps. The main objective of this paper is controlling the blood glucose level at the desired level and fault-tolerant control of these injection pumps. To this end, the eligibility traces algorithm is combined with the sliding mod...

Various search engines are available to clinical trial seekers. However, it remains unknown how comprehensible clinical trial eligibility criteria used for recruitment are to a lay audience. This study initially investigated this problem. Readability of eligibility criteria was assessed according to (i) shallow and lexical characteristics through the use of an established, generic readability m...

OBJECTIVES This cross-sectional study described the prevalence of possible risk factors for increasing eligibility level of long-term care insurance in home help service users who were certified as support level 1-2 or care level 1-2 in Japan. METHODS Data were collected from October 2011 to November 2011. Variables included eligibility level, grip strength, calf circumference (CC), functiona...

OBJECTIVE To develop a semantic representation for clinical research eligibility criteria to automate semistructured information extraction from eligibility criteria text. MATERIALS AND METHODS An analysis pipeline called eligibility criteria extraction and representation (EliXR) was developed that integrates syntactic parsing and tree pattern mining to discover common semantic patterns in 10...

INTRODUCTION Understanding the determinants of timely antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation is useful for HIV programmes intent on developing models of care that reduce delays in treatment initiation while maintaining a high quality of care. We analysed patient- and facility-level determinants of time to ART initiation among patients who initiated ART in Kenya. METHODS We collected facility...

EA TI VE S O LU TI O N S When Congress established the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in 1997, it also enacted presumptive eligibility, a new state option for expediting children’s enrollment in Medicaid.1 Presumptive eligibility helps states cover children more quickly by allowing them to provide immediate, but temporary, enrollment in Medicaid or SCHIP to children who appea...