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Managed Care Organization

Publications associées (17)

Deep learning diagnostic and severity-stratification for interstitial lung diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in digital lung auscultations and ultrasonography: clinical protocol for an observational case-control study

Mary-Anne Hartley, Jonathan Dönz

BackgroundInterstitial lung diseases (ILD), such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are severe, progressive pulmonary disorders with a poor prognosis. Prom ...

BMC2023

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

Mathias Lerch

Background: Evaluating the impact of health systems on premature mortality across different countries is a very challenging task, as it is hardly possible to disentangle it from the influence of contextual factors such as cultural differences. In this resp ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Application of virtual reality in neurosurgery: Patient missing. A systematic review

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Virtual reality (VR) technology had its earliest developments in the 1970s in the U.S. Air Force and has since evolved into a budding area of scientific research with many practical medical purposes. VR shows a high potential to benefit to learners and tra ...

2021

New Measurement Method in Drug Sensing by Direct Total-Charge Detection in Voltammetry

Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Simone Aiassa

Electrochemical biosensors are promoting point-of-care and wearable instrumentation due to their high versatility in measuring human metabolites. There is a considerable number of biological compounds that can be detected and measured through voltammetry b ...

IEEE2020

A biosensor for measuring NAD(+) levels at the point of care

Johan Auwerx, Kai Johnsson, Luc Patiny, Elena Katsyuba, Lin Xue, Qiuliyang Yu

The cellular level of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)), through its different functions, affects cellular metabolism and signalling(1-3). A decrease in the NAD(+) content has been associated with various pathologies and physiological aging(4,5), ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Highly Modular Bioluminescent Sensors for Small Molecules and Proteins

Kai Johnsson, Rudolf Griss, Alberto Schena, Qiuliyang Yu

Obtaining patient-specific information through the quantification of small molecules and proteins in bodily fluids is essential for personalized therapies. Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic devices hold the promise of delivering such benefit to a wide range o ...

Elsevier Academic Press Inc2017

Electrically Assisted Movement Therapy in Chronic Stroke Patients With Severe Upper Limb Paresis: A Pilot, Single-Blind, Randomized Crossover Study

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Silvio Ionta, Stephanie Clarke, Andrea Biasiucci, Andrea Maesani

Objective To evaluate the effects of electrically assisted movement therapy (EAMT) in which patients use functional electrical stimulation, modulated by a custom device controlled through the patient's unaffected hand, to produce or assist task-specific up ...

Elsevier2017

Lanthanide light for biology and medical diagnosis

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Optical imaging emerges as a vital component of the various techniques needed to meet the stringent requirements of modern bioanalysis and bioimaging. Lanthanide luminescent bioprobes (LLBs) have greatly contributed to this field during the past 35 years b ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models in basic and translational breast cancer research

Cathrin Brisken, Georgios Sflomos, Valentina Scabia

Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of a growing spectrum of cancers are rapidly supplanting long-established traditional cell lines as preferred models for conducting basic and translational preclinical research. In breast cancer, to complement the now ...

Springer Verlag2016

On the probability of extinction of the Haiti cholera epidemic

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Flavio Finger

More than three years after its appearance in Haiti, cholera has already caused more than 8,500 deaths and 695,000 infections and it is feared to become endemic. However, no clear evidence of a stable environmental reservoir of pathogenic Vibrio cholerae, ...

Springer Verlag2016

Label-free Analytics by Transmission Localized-SPR and its Application to Small Molecules Monitoring in Serum

Giulia Cappi

In the frame of therapeutic drug monitoring and personalized medicine, point-of-care systems (POCs) that can help overcome long waiting times for results and costly procedures of clinical tests are highly desirable. At present, the detection of low-molecul ...

EPFL2014

Design of Dexterous Mechanical Systems for Intuitive Telemanipulation in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira

Major progress in abdominal surgery has occurred over the last decades with the introduction of laparoscopic and minimally invasive techniques in the operating room. These innovative procedures attracted much attention due to several advantages: the need f ...

EPFL2013

From health logistics to health supply chain management

Philippe Wieser

Philippe Wieser investigates complex health systems that are today organized in networks. Often these networks are underutilized due to a lack of coordination and consistency between the partners. The optimization of care quality and cost control is genera ...

2011

Cancer marker detection in human serum with a point-of-care low-cost system

Sandro Carrara, Luca Benini

Chemiluminescence, i.e. the emission of light from a chemical reaction, offers interesting opportunities for developing point-of-care biosensors. However, commercially available systems are expensive, bulky, and primarily addressed to laboratory usage. The ...

2010

Perceived efficiency impacts following electronic health record implementation: An exploratory study of an urban community health center network

Purpose: Faced with an increasingly complex patient population and growing demand for services, community health centers (CHCs) are recognizing that electronic health records (EHRs) may help their efforts to improve efficiency in care delivery. Yet little ...

2010

Circuits Design and Nano-Structured Electrodes for Drugs Monitoring in Personalized Therapy

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Luca Benini, Andrea Cavallini, Jacopo Olivo

Drug development and personalized therapy require accurate and frequent monitoring of the metabolic response by living tissues to treatments. In case of high risk side effects, e.g. therapies with interfering anti-cancer molecule cocktails, direct monitori ...

IEEE2008

Satisfaction des utilisateurs du dossier patient informatisé valaisan

Philippe Wieser

A multidisciplinary and shared computerized patient record (CPR) has been progressively implemented since 2002 for all public hospitals in the State of Valais, Switzerland. This paper presents the results of a formal evaluation of user’s satisfaction ...

2006