Extracting meaningful information from clinical notes is challenging due to their semi- or unstructured format. Clinical such as discharge summaries contain about diseases, risk factors, and treatment approaches associated them. As such, it critical for healthcare quality well research extract those make them accessible other computerized applications that rely on coded data. In this context, t...

improving the quality of medical images at pre and post-surgery operations are necessary for beginning and speeding up the recovery process. partial differential equations (pdes)-based models have become a powerful and well known tool in different areas of image processing such as denoising, multiscale image analysis, edge detection and other fields of image processing and computer vision. in t...

cholera epidemics have a recorded history in eastern congo dating to 1971. a study was conducted to find out the linkage between climate variability/change and cholera outbreak and to assess the related economic cost in the management of cholera in congo.this study integrates historical data (20 years) on temperature and rainfall with the burden of disease from cholera in south-kivu province, e...

background: non-ulcer dyspepsia (nud) is one of the common gastrointestinal disorders considered as a psychosomatic disorder. the effectiveness of psychological intervention in improving symptoms of this disease remains unclear. the objective of this study was to assess the effects of add-on stress management training on symptoms of nud. materials andmethods: in a randomized clinical trial, 28 ...

Introduction According to statistics, in average 1.7 medical errors occurs daily in the treatment of patients in intensive care [2]. 78% of medical errors are drug dosing errors [3]. Such errors can occur at any stage of the treatment, whether use of the drug, its preparation or administration. Mistakes in medicinal treatment had been done in 187 cases out of 5744 (3.3%) [1]. The greatest numbe...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physicians underdocument and undertreat obesity. Electronic medical records (EMR) reminders have improved other preventive services such as cancer screening and immunizations. We explored whether an EMR automatic calculation of body mass index (BMI) improved clinician documentation and treatment of overweight and obesity. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cross-se...