Objective: To evaluate treatment times for traditional and self-ligating orthodontic brackets and determine if the use of SmartClipTM Self-Ligating Brackets improve orthodontic treatment efficiency. Methodology: More than 1,000 orthodontic practitioners were surveyed in the United States, Canada and Europe with responses based on their experience using SmartClip Self-Ligating Brackets from 3M U...

EHR data are desirable for secondary use in health research but are known to have inconsistencies. The context of their origination, or provenance, may affect the comparability of EHR data for secondary usage. We investigated suspected differences in demographic and comorbidity data and availability of information among four health care settings: ambulatory office visits, hospital inpatients, e...

BACKGROUND Patients recall less than half the information provided to them by their physicians. AIMS The aim of this study was to use quality-improvement (QI) techniques to enhance patient understanding of diagnosis, management and follow-up at the end of the office visit. METHOD QI techniques including stakeholder analysis, process mapping and plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycles were used in a...

OBJECTIVES We compared the likelihood that a tobacco user would receive treatment with the likelihood that an adult with another common chronic condition would receive treatment for that condition at an office visit. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2005-2007 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey to compare the proportion of US office visits at which tobacco users and individuals with hype...

Web usage mining is a research field for searching potentially useful and valuable information from web log file. Web log file is a simple list of pages that users refer. Therefore, it is not easy to analyze user’s current interest field from web log file. This paper presents web usage mining method for finding users’ current interest based on Fuzzy category. We consider not only how many times...

BACKGROUND Accurate identification of hypoglycemia cases by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes will help to describe epidemiology, monitor trends, and propose interventions for this important complication in patients with diabetes. Prior hypoglycemia studies utilized incomplete search strategies and may be methodologically flawed. We...

In this study, we analyse the role of emotion in context informal science education experiences, specifically seeking to understand: (a) which emotions can be stimulated families visiting interactive expositions, and (b) extent parents/caregivers museum explainers engage children's emotional expressiveness. To end, a protocol based on core affect model was employed examine visits 10 family grou...