When a sensor recognises a potentially harmful position, an alert sounds. For a wheelchair with a pressure sensor mattress, sensor readings are optimised, and then many classifiers are used on the information to choose the optimal classifier. In addition, daily actions, including stair climbing, ...
She appeared alert and oriented but could not remember falling on the floor at her home. Observations upon physical examination of the patient are as follows: 1) A cold right foot and lower leg with delayed capillary refill and the absence of peripheral pulses 2) Light-reddish coloring on...
While having comorbidities could be related to polypharmacy problems (which have been linked with poor adherence), our data suggest that patients with non-cancerous comorbidity are more alert to their risk of developing serious disease. In contrast, medication adherence in elderly patients with ...
The researchers are currently working on developing a computerized alert system to help prescribers identify missed or misused medications. The ideal system would include the patient information, including various disease states, and if a medication is not present, for example, the physician would rece...
significantly, which may lead to superimposed effects on the results of this study.33 Moreover, it is worth noting that after DIP policy intervention, the proportion of nutritional medication showed a significant upward trend, and the clinic should be alert to the risk of such irrational ...
Nevertheless, these risks are clearly high enough to warrant high alert. They suggest that, no matter what strategy is selected for addressing COVID-19 in the current or future epidemic waves should include special emphasis in protecting very elderly individuals. Knowledge of relative and absolute ...
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Best practice alert (top 1 (a)) and medication refill (bottom 1 (b)) screen shots. Full size image We monitored HRM prescription rates via run charts to track the ongoing prescription rates per 1000 elderly patients in a pre/post analyses to track changes in monthly average prescribing rates...
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