Healthcare (Basel)
July 2023
The electronic sharing of health information holds the potential to enhance communication and coordination among hospitals and providers, ultimately leading to improved hospital performance. However, despite the benefits, hospitals often encounter significant challenges when it comes to sharing information with external parties. Our study aimed to identify the circumstances under which sharing information with external parties can result in changes in overall hospital costs, with a particular emphasis on various obstacles that hospitals may encounter, including lack of incentives or capabilities essential to facilitate effective information exchange.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
November 2021
This study explores factors associated with the breadth (extent) and depth (level of detail) of digital information exchange among stakeholders in health information technology (IT) systems. Annual and IT surveys of the American Hospital Association and the U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUsing either 24-2 or 10-2 visual field (VF) testing only is not enough to cover all the various types of glaucomatous VF defects. We investigated the performance of the combined 24-2 and 10-2 perimetry when conducted together and separately using the structure-function relationship. A total of 30 glaucoma patients with isolated peripheral nasal step, 37 patients with isolated paracentral scotoma, and 38 patients with both paracentral and nasal scotoma were included.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Phys Ther Sci
December 2016
[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in elbow joint position sense in children. [Subjects and Methods] Nineteen healthy children volunteered as subjects for this study. Joint position sense was assessed by asking the children to flex their elbows between 30° to 110° while blindfolded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of neck flexion restriction on sternocleidomastoid (SCM), rectus abdominis (RA), and external oblique (EO) muscle activity during a traditional curl-up exercise and a curl-up with neck flexion restriction. [Subjects] In total, 13 healthy male subjects volunteered for this study. [Methods] All subjects performed a traditional curl-up exercise and a curl-up exercise in which neck flexion was restricted by the subject's hand.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Purpose] To investigate the intra- and inter-rater reliability of the cross-sectional area (CSA) and muscle thickness (MT) of the longus colli according to the inward pressure of an ultrasonography (US) probe (0.5 and 1 kg). [Subjects] Thirteen subjects (11 males and 2 females; age, 23.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate the patterns of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) defects in mean deviation-matched early glaucomatous eyes with either superior or inferior visual hemifield loss.
Methods: Seventy-five open-angle glaucoma patients with isolated parafoveal scotoma (PFS) within a central 10° of fixation, and 62 patients with isolated peripheral nasal scotoma (PNS) in the nasal periphery outside 10° of fixation were enrolled if the scotoma involved only one hemifield. The relationship between the mean threshold sensitivity (MS) of each corresponding VF sector and optical coherence tomography-measured RNFL thickness was assessed by logarithmic regression analysis.