We report a case of an intravenous drug user (IVDU) patient who had 4 episodes of endocarditis within a 2-year time period in rural Georgia. The institutional cost was approximately $380,000. The lack of an established transitional care plan for IVDUs to outpatient care is a common phenomenon at institutions. Guidelines are essential to optimize the quality of care rendered to IVDUs with such i...

backgroung: hbv still continues to infect many people worldwide despite the availability of an effective vaccine for more than three decades. high prevalence of hbv may exist in high risk groups, particularly among intravenous drug users (idus). this group is among groups with higher risk of infection due to their hazardous behaviors such as sharing needle for drug injection. objectives: this c...

user-generated medical messages on internet contain extensive information related to adverse drug reactions (adrs) and are known as valuable resources for post-marketing drug surveillance. the aim of this study was to find an effective method to identify messages related to adrs automatically from online user reviews.we conducted experiments on online user reviews using different feature set an...

conclusions in comparison with the rate of hbcab positivity reported in other iranian studies, the rate was higher in the present study. there were a few variations, genotypes, and subtypes among the infected injecting drug users. further investigations are needed to unravel the molecular characterization of obi. results sixty-four (28%) participants were hbcab positive, 59 cases were hbcab pos...

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We have developed Dipper, a data integration with privacy protection environment, aiming to tackle the following challenges. Firstly, records can be matched albeit typographical differences between their attribute values. Secondly, they can be matched albeit some attribute values being suppressed to protect the privacy of an individual. Dipper enables data providers to suppress sensitive attrib...

Our life is becoming a multi-device experience. In order to improve such experience it is important to allow users to freely move, change device, and still be able to continue to perform their tasks without having to start from scratch at each device change. We present a solution able to support migration among digital TVs and mobile devices, thus useful for users freely moving in the home and ...

One promising application of intelligent user interfaces (IUIs) is the support of daily tasks for information workers. In such a scenario, users perform various general and domain-specific information generation, processing, and retrieval tasks (e.g., processing data, creating reports, and searching for previous results). Intelligent user interfaces can improve the daily lives of such workers t...

The single most important concept to master when designing mobile device interfaces is “context”. The context in which an application is used and the context of how information is input are both key issues; each must be understood before a well crafted design may be implemented. When these two notions of context are explored, it becomes clear that designing for a mobile device can lead to a sol...

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) was developed in ARC/INFO to provide land-use planners and land owners with a user-friendly tool to access and query a digital database on various planning issues or concerns in Licking County. Planners from Licking County and the Resource Analysis Section (RAS) at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) were surveyed to identify the essential data layer...