The paper presents standards related to ultrasound imaging of the cerebral vasculature and structures. The aim of this paper is to standardize both the performance and description of ultrasound imaging of the extracranial and intracranial cerebral arteries as well as a study of a specific brain structure, i.e. substantia nigra hyperechogenicity. The following aspects are included in the descrip...

The paper presents standards related to ultrasound imaging of the cerebral vasculature and structures. The aim of this paper is to standardize both the performance and description of ultrasound imaging of the extracranial and intracranial cerebral arteries as well as a study of a specific brain structure, i.e. substantia nigra hyperechogenicity. The following aspects are included in the descrip...

Introduction On January 24, 2014, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) released, to the public, its Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document for voluntary public health department accreditation. 1 Specifically, Standard 1.2 of the guidance encompasses data collection. Two measures of Standard 1.2 stipulate the requirements of surveillance and their purposes in the context of P...

The product knowledge manager (PKM) is a multiphase knowledge base system developed to aid in the life-cycle management of electronic products at Boeing Aerospace and Electronics. Numerous pieces of documentation (including source control drawings, fabrication drawings, acceptance test procedures, qualification test procedures) are required for nearly every electronic product developed by Boein...

At present, there are no widely accepted, standard approaches for representing computer-based clinical decision support (CDS) intervention types and their structural components. This study aimed to identify key requirements for the representation of five widely utilized CDS intervention types: alerts and reminders, order sets, infobuttons, documentation templates/forms, and relevant data presen...

Wireless Standards such as ANSI-41 and WIN are dynamic in nature, continuously evolving to meet subscriber requirements with ever shorter intervals for standards development. The current timelines at which a new version of the specification is to be completed to the needed level of precision, quality and completeness cannot be accommodated using existing specification techniques. A key assumpti...

BACKGROUND Clinical trials apply standards approved by regulatory agencies for Electronic Data Capture (EDC). Operational Data Model (ODM) from Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is commonly used. Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems for patient care predominantly apply HL7 standards, specifically Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). In recent years more and more patient ...

UNLABELLED Transient loss of consciousness (TLoC) is a common presentation to the emergency department (ED). We sought to evaluate current practice in the management of patients with TLoC presenting to a large, city centre ED, against national standards. METHODS The ED admissions database was searched to identify all patients attending with TLoC during October 2012. The clinical record of the...

Secondary use of routinely collected health care data has for long been promising to provide better and less costly care (1). Defined as the use of clinical routine data outside direct patient care, secondary use can have many and varied objectives, for example, improvement of patient safety, identification of “best practice” approaches, conducting clinical research, continuous quality measurem...