Impact of COVID-19 on patients with metastatic breast cancer: REthink Access to Care and Treatment survey results.

Patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) may be vulnerable to changes in healthcare management, safety standards and protocols that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. The REthink Access to Care & Treatment (REACT) survey assessed USA-based patient perspectives on COVID-19-related impacts to their MBC treatment experience between 27 April 2021 and 17 August 2021. Participants (n = 341; 98.

Real-time multidimensional temporal analysis of complex high volume physiological data streams in the neonatal intensive care unit.

The intensive care of immature preterm infants is a challenging, dynamic clinical task that is complicated because these infants frequently develop a range of comorbidities as they grow and develop after their premature birth. Earliest reliable condition onset detection is a goal within this setting and high frequency physiological analysis is showing potential new pathophysiological indicators for earlier onset detection of several conditions. To realise this, a platform for multi-stream, multi-condition, multi-feature risk scoring is required.

Real-time analysis for intensive care: development and deployment of the artemis analytic system.

The lives of many thousands of children born premature or ill at term around the world have been saved by those who work within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Modern-day neonatologists, together with nursing staff and other specialists within this domain, enjoy modern technologies for activities such as financial transactions, online purchasing, music, and video on demand. Yet, when they move into their workspace, in many cases, they are supported by nearly the same technology they used 20 years ago.

Small-scale testing of RFID in a hospital setting: RFID as bed trigger.

RFID technology shows significant potential for transforming healthcare, yet few studies assess this potential. Our study measured the effectiveness of using RFID as a bed trigger: a tool to accelerate identification of empty beds. We made a small alteration in the discharge process to associate RFID tags with patients and created an RFID-based system that automatically determined discharge time.