Cardiac well-being indexes: a decision support tool to monitor cardiovascular health

InterQual® Behavioral Health Decision Support Tool

A clinical decision support system using multilayer perceptron neural network to assess well being in diabetes.

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is an increasingly common life-style disorder whose management outcomes are measured in symptomatic, biochemical as well as psychological areas. Well being as an outcome of treatment is being increasingly recognized as a crucial component of treatment. There is little published literature on psychosocial outcomes and the factors influencing them. Therefore we have d...

Post-cardiac surgery mechanical support: a tool for decision making.

The report by Hernandez et al1 in the present issue of Circulation is timely and important. Compiled from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons voluntary database, it comprises an analysis of the largest series of patients treated with mechanical support to date. The authors have reviewed outcomes of 5735 patients who had a ventricular assist device (VAD) placed for low cardiac output after having u...

Identifying 'non-medical' datasets to monitor community health and well-being.

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to identify 'non-medical' datasets holding routinely collected information that might be used to measure and monitor the wider determinants of community health and well-being. METHODS An expert panel discussion, involving public health and environmental health academics and professionals with expertise in a variety of backgrounds (including environmental he...

Social support networks and maternal mental health and well-being.

The link between social networks and mental health has increasingly been recognized by public health as an important topic of interest. In this paper, we explore this association among a specific group: mothers. Specifically, we discuss how maternal mental health can be understood in the context of social networks, the influence of specific social relationships, and how the type and quality of ...