Publications by authors named "S L Wehrli"
Background: Research on child protective services (CPS) is impeded by a lack of high-quality structured data. Crucial information on cases is often documented in case files, but only in narrative form. Researchers have applied automated language processing to extract structured data from these narratives, but this has been limited to classification tasks of fairly low complexity.
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- The study investigates healthcare access for Swiss adults with rare diseases, aiming to find patterns and their effects on health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
- Utilizing surveys from 341 participants, two groups were identified: those with high access (227 individuals) and those with low access (114 individuals).
- Factors linked to lower access included unstable disease conditions, higher misdiagnoses, and neurological diseases, which also correlated with poorer HRQoL, underscoring the need for improved healthcare strategies.
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- Health problems can get worse quickly for people in hospitals, often seen through changes in vital signs like heart rate and blood pressure.
- * To help detect these changes early, doctors use a system called Early Warning Scores (EWS), specifically NEWS2, to keep track of patient health.
- * This study tested if wristband devices could automatically calculate the NEWS2 score even better than medical staff so that it could help keep patients safer.
Objective: Children and adolescents with rare diseases face significant barriers when accessing healthcare. We aimed to assess and predict these barriers and investigate associations with health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
Method: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of Swiss parents (N = 189) of children with rare diseases including the Barriers to Care Questionnaire (BCQ), containing six barriers and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL).
Experiments as Code (ExaC) is a concept for reproducible, auditable, debuggable, reusable, & scalable experiments. Experiments are a crucial tool to understand Human-Building Interactions (HBI) and build a coherent theory around it. However, a common concern for experiments is their auditability and reproducibility.
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