New Horizons in Sanitary Engineering Research

Medical Research and Sanitary Engineering

New horizons in brain-computer interface research

The last decade has shown a large increase in the number of P300-based BCI publications. The majority of these studies have used non-disabled subjects; far fewer studies have been conducted with people suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or other neuromuscular disorders. Although the field has matured significantly, most research has focused on improving classification through si...

New horizons in brain-computer interface research.

The last decade has shown a large increase in the number of P300-based BCI publications. The majority of these studies have used non-disabled subjects; far fewer studies have been conducted with people suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or other neuromuscular disorders. Although the field has matured significantly, most research has focused on improving classification through si...

New horizons in stroke rehabilitation research.

To promote health services research in stroke rehabilitation, we gathered information about stroke rehabilitation structures, processes, and outcomes (SPO), using extant databases and the Donabedian theoretical model of health services evaluation. We found that, in the United States, over S3.6 billion was spent by third-party payers in 1992 on rehabilitation, including stroke. Total disability-...

False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice

In response to a weight of evidence that patients are frequently harmed as a result of their care, there have been concerted efforts to make healthcare safer, with health systems across the globe investing significant resources in policies and programmes designed to reduce adverse events. Yet, despite extensive efforts, improvements in safety have proved difficult to sustain and spread, with st...