Publications related to Hospital

Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities

Fernando Porté Agel, Mohammad Jamshidmofid, Ahmad Arabkoohsar

Healthcare sector buildings, particularly hospitals, significantly contribute to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Hospitals require a substantial amount of steam, including the essential hygienic or " clean steam, " that is currently ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene services in district health care facilities in rural area of Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Solomzi Makohliso

Access to sufficient water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services is a crucial requirement for patients during therapy and general well-being in the hospital. However, in low- and middle-income countries, these services are often inadequate, resulting in ...

SPRINGER2022

Predicting involuntary hospitalization in psychiatry: A machine learning investigation

Mehdi Gholam

Background Coercion in psychiatry is a controversial issue. Identifying its predictors and their interaction using traditional statistical methods is difficult, given the large number of variables involved. The purpose of this study was to use machine-lear ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2021

Relative Effects of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program on Hospitals That Serve Poorer Patients

Yun Wang, Christine Choirat

Importance: Hospitals that serve poorer populations have higher readmission rates. It is unknown whether these hospitals effectively lowered readmission rates in response to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). Objective: To compare pre-post ...

2019

3-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging for Medical Telesonography: Algorithms and Architectures

Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

Enabling telemedicine in Ultrasound (US) imaging, i.e. telesonography, is until today just a wish. Although US has incomparable advantages such as safety in use, lower cost and complexity, and capability to be utilized in many applications, it is limited i ...

EPFL2018

Evaluation of Auramine O staining and conventional PCR for leprosy diagnosis: A comparative cross-sectional study from Ethiopia

Stewart Cole, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso

Background ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2018

Inexpensive 1024-Channel 3D Telesonography System on FPGA

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Damien Doy, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

Volumetric ultrasound (US) is a very promising development of medical US imaging. An under-exploited advantage of volumetric US is the mitigation of the strict probe positioning constrains necessary to acquire 2D scans, potentially allowing the decoupling ...

IEEE2017

Touch-Based System for Beat-to-Beat Impedance Cardiogram Acquisition and Hemodynamic Parameters Estimation

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Srinivasan Murali, Dionisije Sopic

Among all cardiovascular diseases, congestive heart failure (CHF) has a very high rate of hospitalization and mortality. In order to prevent hospitalization, there is a strong need to identify patients at risk of a CHF event by estimating a set of relevant ...

IEEE/ACM Press2016

Paradigm-Shifting Players for IoT: Smart-Watches for Intensive Care Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Danilo Demarchi, Eleonora Lavalle

Wearable devices, e.g. smart-watches, are gaining popularity in many fields and in wellness monitoring too. In this paper we propose an IoT application to alert the medical doctor assigned to a critical unit by using a smart-watch. The wearable device impr ...

2016

Clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in four European hospitals are uniformly susceptible to benzothiazinones

Stewart Cole

The new antitubercular drug candidate 2-[2-S-methyl-1,4-dioxa-8-azaspiro[4.5]dec-8-yl]-8-nitro-6-(trifluoromethyl)-4H-1,3-benzothiazin-4-one (BTZ043) targets the DprE1 (Rv3790) subunit of the enzyme decaprenylphosphoryl-beta-d-ribose 2'-epimerase. To monit ...

2010

Mitigating network congestion : analytical models, optimization methods and their applications

Carolina Osorio Pizano

Congestion is a phenomenon that arises in a variety of contexts. The most familiar representation is urban traffic congestion. Nonetheless, phenomenons such as prison cell congestion, hospital bed blocking or, at a cellular scale, ribosome congestion, also ...

EPFL2010

Mass Flows of X-ray Contrast Media and Cytostatics in Hospital Wastewater

David Gregory Weissbrodt, Juliane Hollender, Hansruedi Siegrist

Little is known about the significance of hospitals as point sources for emission of organic micropollutants into the aquatic environment. A mass flow analysis of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics used in hospitals was performed on the site of a representati ...

2009

Satisfaction des utilisateurs du dossier patient informatisé valaisan

Philippe Wieser, David Marey

A multidisciplinary and shared computerized patient record (CPR) has been progressively implemented since 2002 for all public hospitals in the State of Valais, Switzerland. This paper presents the results of a formal evaluation of user’s satisfaction ...

2006

Mapping Moving Landscapes by Mining Mountains of Logs: Novel Techniques for Dependency Model Generation

Karl Aberer, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Mirko Steinle

Problem diagnosis for distributed systems is usually difficult. Thus, an automated support is needed to identify root causes of encountered problems such as performance lags or inadequate functioning quickly. The many tools and techniques existing today th ...

2006

Real-Time Treatment Planning Optimisation for Brachytherapy

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Rakesh Chawla

In this paper, we present an integrated system for real-time dose distribution calculation and treatment planning optimisation for brachytherapy of prostate cancer, with a special emphasis on the visual integration of the dosimetry and target images obtain ...

2005