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Virtual Patient/Family Communication In The Acute Care Setting, Kathleen Defigueiredo
Virtual Patient/Family Communication In The Acute Care Setting, Kathleen Defigueiredo
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Patient and family-centered care strategies see patients and families as valuable healthcare team members. Such strategies thus treat these groups as essential clinical partners in providing safe, high-quality care. Participation, collaboration, and shared decision-making are central to this framework. Historically, hospitals have relied on physical presence at the bedside as a prerequisite to engaging families in the shared decision-making process. Visitor restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic removed the primary strategy for family participation: physical presence. Healthcare organizations rapidly deployed mobile devices to help minimize the exposure of healthcare providers and provide video visits for family members. This deployment was often …
Standardizing New Diagnostic Tests To Facilitate Rapid Responses To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Xiao Dong
Standardizing New Diagnostic Tests To Facilitate Rapid Responses To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Xiao Dong
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
In order to enhance the data interoperability, an expeditious and accurate standardization solution is highly desirable for naming rapidly emerging novel lab tests, and thus diminishes confusion in early responses to pandemic outbreaks. This is a preliminary study to explore the roles and implementation of medical informatics technology, especially natural language processing and ontology methods, in standardizing information about emerging lab tests during a pandemic, thereby facilitating rapid responses to the pandemic. The ultimate goal of this study is to develop an informatics framework for rapid standardization of lab testing names during a pandemic to better prepare for future public …