Stud Health Technol Inform
August 2024
The healthcare sector's demand for a skilled workforce necessitates effective management of internship and residency programs. This study introduces the System for Managing the Health Internship Program (SIGEPS), aimed at addressing internship and residency management challenges in Joinville's municipal health network. The method of this study focused on developing a computational solution with applied and exploratory objectives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Stroke management requires a coordinated strategy, adhering to clinical pathways (CP) and value-based healthcare (VBHC) principles from onset to rehabilitation. However, the discrepancies between these pathways and actual patient experiences highlight the need for ongoing monitoring and addressing interoperability issues across multiple institutions in stroke care. To address this, the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) Implementation Guide (IG) standardizes the information exchange among these systems, considering a specific context of use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStroke is one of the leading causes of death and impairments worldwide. After hospital discharge, it is necessary to monitor these patients during their recovery. This research addresses the implementation of a mobile app, entitled 'Quer N0 AVC', to improve the quality of stroke patient care in Joinville, Brazil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedical assistance to stroke patients must start as early as possible; however, several changes have impacted healthcare services during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research aimed to identify the stroke onset-to-door time during the Covid-19 pandemic considering the different paths a patient can take until receiving specialized care. It is a retrospective study based on process mining (PM) techniques applied to 221 electronic healthcare records of stroke patients during the pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The objective of amputation and disarticulation is to improve health. However, these treatments are associated with significant mortality rates that vary in relation to risk factors.
Objective: To identify associations between determinants of postoperative mortality after amputation surgery.