PURPOSE Our study compared clinical decision time between patients managed with a point-of-care chemistry test (POCT) and patients managed with the traditional central laboratory test (CLT). BASIC PROCEDURE This was a randomized controlled multicenter trial in the emergency departments (EDs) of 5 academic teaching hospitals. We randomly assigned patients to POCT or CLT stratified by the Emerg...

Currently the Peer-to-Peer computing paradigm rises as an economic solution for the large scale computation problems. However due to the dynamic nature of peers it is very difficult to use this type of systems for the computations of real time applications. Strict deadline of scientific and real time applications require predictable performance in such applications. We propose an algorithm to i...

coronary heart disease has been one of the main threats of human health. coronary angiography is taken as the “gold standard” for the assessment of coronary artery disease. but sometimes, the images are difficult to interpret visually because of the crossing and overlapping of the vessels in the angiograms. vessel extraction from x-ray angiograms has been a challenging problem for several years...

Broadcast disk technology has become a popular method for data dissemination in wireless information systems. However, factors such as intentional periodic disconnection by the mobile hosts result in further needs for managing access modes to let the mobile hosts procure highest benefit through the disconnections. In this paper, we propose a new broadcast indexing structure, Data Receiver Indic...

BACKGROUND There is scant evidence on the association between diagnosis delays and the receipt of test results in HIV Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) programs. We determine the association between diagnosis delays and other health care system and patient factors on result receipt. METHODS We reviewed 703 infant HIV test records for tests performed between January 2008 and February 2009 at a regi...

CONTEXT Voice recognition technology (VRT) has been in use for medical transcription outside of laboratories for many years, and in recent years it has evolved to a level where it merits consideration by surgical pathologists. OBJECTIVE To determine the feasibility and impact of making a transition from a transcriptionist-based service to VRT in surgical pathology. DESIGN We have evaluated ...