Medical image data can be affected by several image errors. These errors can lead to uncertain or wrong diagnosis in clinical daily routine. A large variety of image error metrics are available that target different aspects of image quality forming a highdimensional error space, which cannot be reviewed trivially. To solve this problem, this paper presents a novel error space exploration techni...

INTRODUCTION Since 2001, a Japanese national project has developed a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) system ("doctor-helicopter") and a central Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) composed of mobile and trained medical teams for rapid deployment during the response phase of a disaster. PROBLEM In Japan, the DMAT Research Group has focused on command and control of doctor-helic...

Introduction Michigan has been collecting chief complaint data from emergency departments statewide to support situational awareness activities related to communicable disease since 2004. We validated the syndromic system by comparing the chief complaint data to the electronic medical records (1,2,3) of a tertiary hospital in southeast Michigan to better understand the utility of the system for...

The purposes of this study were to determine whether registered nurses are familiar with the Health Canada Medical Device Problem Report Form, and if so, how often they use it to report problems and concerns compared to how often they experience problems and concerns with medical devices. A survey was mailed to a random sample of 1,000 Ontario nurses to collect demographic information and to de...

YES Electronic medical records (EMRs) have had a positive effect on patient care and the work lives of family physicians. Over the past few decades our medical knowledge has increased. More investigative and treatment options are available; as a result our patients are living longer and we are dealing with more chronic conditions. Family physicians cannot “know all things” nor can we be “all th...

Biomaterials and medical devices are broadly used in the diagnosis, treatment, repair, replacement or enhancing functions of human tissues or organs. Although the living conditions of human beings have been steadily improved in most parts of the world, the incidence of major human's diseases is still rapidly growing mainly because of the growth and aging of population. The compound annual growt...

The New South Wales Department of Health mandates that all patients be asked if they identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. This information is then recorded in the medical notes or electronic medical record, which is not easily viewed by staff. At our metropolitan teaching hospital, we introduced electronically visible identification of these patients and demonstrated how thi...

BACKGROUND Critically-injured children are frequently treated by providers who lack specialty pediatric training in facilities that have not been modified for the care of children. We set out to understand the attitudes and perspectives of policy makers, and senior nursing and medical managers in the Israeli healthcare system, concerning the provision of medical care to pediatric trauma casualt...

There have been few reports published in English on emergency medicine (EM) in Japan; the main reason for this is that the concept of EM was different in Japan from that in western countries. In the 1960s, legislation was passed in Japan that implemented emergency medical services, and emergency hospitals were designated by the government. There were no emergency medicine specialists, and so su...

Acute stroke is one of the main causes of death and chronic disability. Thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator within the first hours after onset of symptoms is an effective therapeutic option for ischemic stroke. However, fewer than 2% to 7% of patients receive this treatment, primarily because most patients reach the hospital too late for the initiation of successful thera...