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Systems Analysis at Capital District Health Authority
(2012-07-31)Health Informaticians are faced with a tough challenge in today’s healthcare environment – to deliver innovative solutions for improving the way we deliver healthcare, while keeping within a strict budget. Capital District ... -
Systems Analysis at National Guard Health Affairs - King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh
(2012-09-11)Health Informaticians are facing a tough challenge these days to deliver innovative solutions to improve the way healthcare is delivered, especially in light of ever-increasing demands for health care services amidst ... -
Teaching and Learning with Videoconferencing at Regional Medical Campuses: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study
(2019)Distributed medical education and instruction at regional medical campuses is becoming more prevalent. With its focus on connecting learners in multiple environments outside of traditional classroom or clinical environments, ... -
Teaching Heart Auscultation to Health Professionals: Methods for Improving the Practice of an Ancient but Critical Skill
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Teaching Postgraduate Health Informatics Courses through Video Conference Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
(2012-05-30)This report discusses a representative subset of an internship project undertaken by Hanin Abdulhameed Shalaby, a Master of Health Informatics student at Dalhousie University. This research project focused on using video ... -
Technologies of Exposure: Videoconferenced Distributed Medical Education as a Sociomaterial Practice
(Association of American Medical Colleges, 2018-11-21)Purpose Videoconferencing—a network of buttons, screens, microphones, cameras, and speakers—is one way to ensure that undergraduate medical curricula are comparably delivered across distributed medical education (DME) ... -
Technologies of trust in epidemic response: openness, reflexivity and accountability during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa
(BMJ, 2019-02-13)Trust is an essential component of successful cooperative endeavours. The global health response to the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak confronted historically tenuous regional relationships of trust. Challenging ... -
Transabdominal ultrasound of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: A multi-centered population-based study in sensitivity, associated diagnostic intervals, and survival (preprint)
(Elsevier, 2022-11)Abstract Objectives To determine the sensitivity of ultrasound (US) in detecting pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in our region, to identify factors associated with US test result, and assess the impact on the diagnostic ... -
Transient Cell-Cycle Arrest of Saccharomyces-Cerevisiae by Amino-Acid Analog Beta-2-Dl-Thienylalanine
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Tumor suppressor protein kinase Chk2 is a mediator of anoikis of intestinal epithelial cells
(International Journal of Cancer, 2011-11-02)Resistance of carcinoma cells to anoikis, apoptosis that is normally induced by detachment of non-malignant epithelial cells from the extracellular matrix, is thought to be critical for carcinoma progression. Molecular ... -
U2 and U6 snRNA genes in the microsporidian Nosema locustae: evidence for a functional spliceosome
(1998-07)No abstract available. -
Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: Results of a consultation study by the Canadian Immunization Research Network
(Public Library of Science, 2016-06-03)“Vaccine hesitancy” is a concept now frequently used in vaccination discourse. The increased popularity of this concept in both academic and public health circles is challenging previously held perspectives that individual ... -
Update the learning module (to support a HI course) on HL7 Version 3 and the HL7 Development Framework
(2012-05-28)The Internship work included development of new learning modules and files and updating of the existing learning modules and files of the “Introduction to HL7” part of the home page of http://healthinfo.med.dal.ca. The ... -
Uptake of slow-release oral morphine as opioid agonist treatment among hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder
(Wiley, 2021)Introduction: Buprenorphine and methadone are highly effective first-line medications for opioid agonist treatment (OAT) but are not acceptable to all patients. We aimed to assess the uptake of slow-release oral morphine ... -
The Use of Electronic Synoptic Operative Reporting to Improve Operative Reports for Spinal Cord Injury Patients
(2012-09-10)Improving the quality of care for patients requires assuring accurate diagnosis and timely, accessible information that enables treatment planning and makes patient care decisions more informed and evidence-based. ... -
Use of intravenous antibiotics for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency department
(2005-03)STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent of intravenous (IV) antibiotic use for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in emergency departments, the practice patterns in seven emergency departments serving the adult residents ... -
User Growth Intern at Figure 1
(2017-08-18)The purpose of user growth is to acquire new users to use a product or service. In the case of the internship at Figure 1, user growth is acquiring health care professionals for medical collaboration. Figure 1 is a tech ... -
Using MetaMap Program to Map Medical Curriculum to MCC and One45 Controlled Vocabulary
(2012-07-31)This project was undertaken in order to assist Dalhousie University’s UGME department in tracking the frequency at which particular concepts appear within its curriculum. Data was generated for the sake of analysis regarding ... -
Using R and Latex to Develop Automated Wait Time Report Generator for Nova Scotia Screening Program
(2012-05-28)According to the Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program, with the presence of long waiting time lists there is an increasing need for automatic analysis methods to determine the causes of its existence. The AutoReport Generator ...