Analysis of Saturation in the Emergency Department: A Data-Driven Queuing Model Using Machine Learning.

Emergency department is a key component of the health system where the management of crowding situations is crucial to the well-being of patients. This study proposes a new machine learning methodology and a queuing network model to measure and optimize crowding through a congestion indicator, which indicates a real-time level saturation.

Multimorbidity clustering of the emergency department patient flow: Impact analysis of new unscheduled care clinics.

Background: In France, the number of emergency department (ED) admissions doubled between 1996 and 2016. To cope with the resulting crowding situation, redirecting patients to new healthcare services was considered a viable solution which would spread demand more evenly across available healthcare delivery points and render care more efficient. The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of opening new on-demand care services based on variations in patient flow at a large hospital emergency department.

Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on non-COVID-19 emergency department visits in Eastern France: Reduced risk or avoidance behavior?

Objective: To study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on avoided emergency department visits and consequent hospitalizations.

Study Design: An observational retrospective design was used to investigate avoided visits and hospitalizations of an departmental emergency department combined with a clustering approach on multimorbidity patterns.

Methods: A multimorbidity clustering technique was applied on the emergency department diagnostics to segment the population in diseases clusters.

Transmission XMCD-PEEM imaging of an engineered vertical FEBID cobalt nanowire with a domain wall.

Using focused electron-beam-induced deposition, we fabricate a vertical, platinum-coated cobalt nanowire with a controlled three-dimensional structure. The latter is engineered to feature bends along the height: these are used as pinning sites for domain walls, which are obtained at remanence after saturation of the nanostructure in a horizontally applied magnetic field. The presence of domain walls is investigated using x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) coupled to photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM).

Molecular quantum magnetism in LiZn2Mo3O8.

Inelastic neutron scattering at low temperatures T≤30  K from a powder of LiZn2Mo3O8 demonstrates this triangular-lattice antiferromagnet hosts collective magnetic excitations from spin-1/2 Mo3O13 molecules. Apparently gapless (Δ<0.2  meV) and extending at least up to 2.

Multicomponent wavefield characterization with a novel scanning laser interferometer.

The in-plane component of the wavefield provides valuable information about media properties from seismology to nondestructive testing. A new compact scanning laser ultrasonic interferometer collects light scattered away from the angle of incidence to provide the absolute ultrasonic displacement for both the out-of-plane and an in-plane components. This new system is tested by measuring the radial and vertical polarization of a Rayleigh wave in an aluminum half-space.