Publications by authors named "Naima Islam"
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- Acute care surgery (ACS) was implemented at a medical facility to improve the surgical treatment and management of acute appendicitis (AA) by creating a standardized perioperative clinical pathway.
- A study compared patient outcomes before (2016-2018) and after (2018-2020) implementing this pathway, analyzing 492 patients and focusing on hospital length of stay (LOS) as the primary outcome.
- Results showed a significant reduction in LOS (31.2 vs. 50.4 hours), quicker transition times from CT scans to surgery, reduced opioid use, and improved discharge processes in the post-implementation group, indicating overall enhanced surgical efficiency and care.
The effects of freeway incident clearance times on the flow of traffic have recently increased interests in understanding what factors influence incident durations. This has particularly become topical due to the financial and economic implications of traffic gridlocks caused by freeway incidents on industries and personal mobility. This paper presents two advanced econometric modeling methods, random parameters duration modeling and latent class duration modeling in understanding the factors that impact freeway incident clearance times in the State of Alabama.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The global burden from cancer is rising, especially as low-income countries like Bangladesh observe rapid aging. So far, there are no comprehensive descriptions reporting diagnosed cancer group that include hematological malignancies in Bangladesh.
Methods: This was a multi-center hospital-based retrospective descriptive study of over 5000 confirmed hematological cancer cases in between January 2008 to December 2012.