Hospital dual-channel adoption decisions with telemedicine referral and misdiagnosis.

With the rapid development of telemedicine and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more patients are now resorting to using telemedicine channels for healthcare services. However, for hospitals, there exists a lack of managerial guidance in place to help them adopt telemedicine in a practical and standardized way. This study considers a hospital operating with both telemedicine () and face-to-face () medical channels, and which allocates its capacity by also taking into account the possibility of both referrals and misdiagnosis.

How does the hospital make a safe and stable elective surgery plan during COVID-19 pandemic?

During the COVID-19 period, randomly arrived patients flooded into the hospital, which caused staffing beds to be occupied. Then, elective surgeries could not be carried out timely. It not only affects the health of patients but also affects hospital income.

Surgical scheduling by Fuzzy model considering inpatient beds shortage under uncertain surgery durations.

Operating Room (OR) management has been among the mainstream of hospital management research, as ORs are commonly considered as one of the most critical and expensive resources. The complicated connection and interplay between ORs and their upstream and downstream units has recently attracted research attention to focus more on allocating medical resources efficiently for the sake of a balanced coordination. As a critical step, surgical scheduling in the presence of uncertain surgery durations is pivotal but rather challenging since a patient cannot be hospitalized if a recovery bed will not be available to accommodate the admission.

Effect of a glucagon receptor antibody (REMD-477) in type 1 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial.

The aim of the current study (Clinical trial reg. no. NCT02715193, clinicaltrials.

A new technique to characterize CT scanner bow-tie filter attenuation and applications in human cadaver dosimetry simulations.

Purpose: To present a noninvasive technique for directly measuring the CT bow-tie filter attenuation with a linear array x-ray detector.

Methods: A scintillator based x-ray detector of 384 pixels, 307 mm active length, and fast data acquisition (model X-Scan 0.8c4-307, Detection Technology, FI-91100 Ii, Finland) was used to simultaneously detect radiation levels across a scan field-of-view.

In vitro dose measurements in a human cadaver with abdomen/pelvis CT scans.

Purpose: To present a study of radiation dose measurements with a human cadaver scanned on a clinical CT scanner.

Methods: Multiple point dose measurements were obtained with high-accuracy Thimble ionization chambers placed inside the stomach, liver, paravertebral gutter, ascending colon, left kidney, and urinary bladder of a human cadaver (183 cm in height and 67.5 kg in weight) whose abdomen/pelvis region was scanned repeatedly with a multidetector row CT.