The authors estimated the validity of algorithms for identification mental health conditions (MHCs) in administrative data 133 068 diabetic patients who used Veterans Health Administration (VHA) nationally 1998 and responded to 1999 Large Survey Veteran Enrollees. They compared various MHCs from International Classification Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) codes with self-reported depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, or schizophrenia survey. Positive predictive value (PPV) negative (NPV)...

Textile-based sweat sensors display great potential to enhance wearable comfort and health monitoring; however, their widespread application is severely hindered by the intricate manufacturing process electrochemical characteristics. To address this challenge, we combined both impregnation coating technology conjugated electrospinning develop an electro-assisted core-spinning (EAICST), which enables us simply construct a sheath-core sensing yarn (TPFV/CPP yarn) via PEDOT:PSS-coated carbon...

The development of smart protective clothing will facilitate the quick detection injuries from contact sports, traffic collisions and other accidents. To obtain real-time information like spatial temporal pressure distributions on clothing, flexible sensor arrays are required. Based a resistive fabric strain we demonstrate all flexible, sensors with large workable range (0–8 MPa), high sensitivity (1 MPa−1) an excellent repeatability (lowest non-repeatability ±2.4% 0.8 to 8 MPa) that can be...

The manufacturing of flexible strain sensors for wearable electronics usually requires different conductive materials the sensing part and connection part. This increases complexity, cost, performance issues due to mismatch thermo-electro-mechanical properties materials. Herein, a new design scheme using single material is presented low-cost mass-producible fabric sensor, where carbon/silicone nanocomposite screen-printed make both parts. By exploring dimension effect modelling tracks,...

The retromolar canal (RMC) is an extension of the mandibular located in distal region third molar. Accurately detecting RMC using conventional two-dimensional images challenging, potentially leading to anesthetic failure and sensory disorders. This study aims explore clinical application a radiomic model based on panoramic radiographs RMC. A retrospective collection cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) was conducted 800 patients, covering 1555 hemimandibles. CBCT served as gold standard for...

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) databases are used extensively to study racial/ethnic disparities; however, these may not capture all care received by VHA patients.We examined the extent which accounting for non-VHA changed conclusions about disparities patients with diabetes.Using a cross-sectional observational study, we analyzed national sample of noninstitutionalized Hispanic (n = 5931), black 24,670), and white 149,222) diabetes who were at least 65 years age receipt annual HbA1c...

This study used quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the design of nursing jobs in long-term care facilities effect job on employee satisfaction.

Background There has been an increasing popularity of searching health related information online in recent years. Despite that considerable amount scoliosis patients have shown interest obtaining through Internet, previous studies demonstrated poor quality information. However, this conclusion may vary depending on region and culture. Since China a restricted Internet access outside its borders, the aim study is to evaluate available using recognized scoring systems analyze as source China....

Fundamental to democratic societies, citizen participation is an important tool for promoting active, informed, and empowered citizenry as well responsive accountable administration. Past literature on has focused its determinants, forms, prevalence. This study examines the relationship between a specific form of participation—client participation—and organizational performance. We use hybrid data U.S. nursing homes that combine survey home administrators’ managerial practices with federal...

Objectives: To examine whether quality of care differed for veterans in Department Veterans Affairs (VA) nursing homes and those on contract community the VA was contracting with providing better than other homes. Design: Observational study using administrative databases from 1997 to 1999. Setting: Ten 650 New York state. Participants: Four thousand seven hundred sixty‐three veteran 195,438 nonveteran residents these Measurements: Risk‐adjusted rates pressure ulcer development, functional...

To develop the differential pressure sensor made of carbon nanotube-filled silicone rubber composites with a simplified structure, an electrode-shared configuration is designed. The includes top and bottom sandwich layers. layer composed film, intermediate composite film low nanotube content between them. high electrode in shared by layers, which can make probe more concise. electrical resistance high/low increases/decreases increase pressure, increases temperature. layers are connected to...

Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) have starkly different health care experiences compared their English-proficient counterparts. The authors aim to examine the link between LEP and postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing microsurgical breast reconstruction. A retrospective review of all who underwent abdominal-based reconstruction at our institution 2009 2019 was performed. Variables collected included patient demographics, language status, interpreter usage,...

With development of virtualization and cloud computing, increasingly more scientific computing applications run in the resources. In HPC Cloud, high performance referred to as HPC, multiple virtual machines (VMs), which can be placed different physical nodes. If VMs, are used for communication-intensive jobs, same node, VMs will compete network I/O bandwidth resources, required by than upper bound affected severely, calculation time increase. This paper presents a load aware VM placement...