A Dedicated Orthopaedic Trauma Admission Document Significantly Improves Recording of Patient Information

The Orthopaedic Trauma Patient Experience: A Qualitative Case Study of Orthopaedic Trauma Patients in Uganda

The disability adjusted life years (DALYs) associated with injuries have increased by 34% from 1990 to 2010, making it the 10th leading cause of disability worldwide, with most of the burden affecting low-income countries. Although disability from injuries is often preventable, limited access to essential surgical services contributes to these increasing DALY rates. Similar to many other low- a...

Orthopaedic trauma in the pregnant patient.

Trauma affects up to 8% of pregnancies and is the leading cause of death among pregnant women in the United States. A pregnancy test is mandated for all females of childbearing age who are involved in trauma. Orthopaedic trauma in the pregnant patient is managed similarly to that for all trauma patients. Initial resuscitation efforts should focus on the pregnant patient because stable patient v...

A new method of recording attendance improves the academic performance of medical students

Introduction: Students’ engagement during the collection ofattendance (SEdCA) is a method where students write the answerto a question related to the topic of preceding 1-h lecture. Then,attendance is recorded by the teacher from the answer sheets.This method was introduced primarily to overcome difficulty inrecording attendance from a class of high attendance. Its...

Trauma and orthopaedic surgery

Recording word position information for improved document categorization

In this paper, which is a report from work in progress, we briefly present the new document representation that could be used in classic text mining applications, such as document categorization. We briefly present most popular unigram and n-gram document representations that are used frequently in text mining research, mention their shortcomings, and present the idea of representation that rec...