• 제목/요약/키워드: Global Healthcare

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Does computer-aided diagnostic endoscopy improve the detection of commonly missed polyps? A meta-analysis

  • Arun Sivananthan;Scarlet Nazarian;Lakshmana Ayaru;Kinesh Patel;Hutan Ashrafian;Ara Darzi;Nisha Patel
    • Clinical Endoscopy
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    • 제55권3호
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    • pp.355-364
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    • 2022
  • Background/Aims: Colonoscopy is the gold standard diagnostic method for colorectal neoplasia, allowing detection and resection of adenomatous polyps; however, significant proportions of adenomas are missed. Computer-aided detection (CADe) systems in endoscopy are currently available to help identify lesions. Diminutive (≤5 mm) and nonpedunculated polyps are most commonly missed. This meta-analysis aimed to assess whether CADe systems can improve the real-time detection of these commonly missed lesions. Methods: A comprehensive literature search was performed. Randomized controlled trials evaluating CADe systems categorized by morphology and lesion size were included. The mean number of polyps and adenomas per patient was derived. Independent proportions and their differences were calculated using DerSimonian and Laird random-effects modeling. Results: Seven studies, including 2,595 CADe-assisted colonoscopies and 2,622 conventional colonoscopies, were analyzed. CADe-assisted colonoscopy demonstrated an 80% increase in the mean number of diminutive adenomas detected per patient compared with conventional colonoscopy (0.31 vs. 0.17; effect size, 0.13; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.09-0.18); it also demonstrated a 91.7% increase in the mean number of nonpedunculated adenomas detected per patient (0.32 vs. 0.19; effect size, 0.05; 95% CI, 0.02-0.07). Conclusions: CADe-assisted endoscopy significantly improved the detection of most commonly missed adenomas. Although this method is a potentially exciting technology, limitations still apply to current data, prompting the need for further real-time studies.

Healthcare Workers' Mental Health in Pandemic Times: The Predict Role of Psychosocial Risks

  • Carla Barros;Pilar Baylina;Ruben Fernandes;Susana Ramalho;Pedro Arezes
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • 제13권4호
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    • pp.415-420
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    • 2022
  • Background: Healthcare workers perform an emotionally exhausting daily work activity, making them prone to occupational hazards, namely psychosocial ones. This study aims to assess the impact of psychosocial risk factors on healthcare workers' mental health. Methods: A cross-sectional study was developed between May and June of 2021 with 479 healthcare workers from Portuguese hospitals. The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale was used to assess mental health, and psychosocial risks were assessed through the Health and Work Survey - INSAT. Statistical analysis was performed to identify the psychosocial risk factors related to anxiety, depression, and stress. Subsequently, a multiple linear regression was performed to identify the models that better explained psychosocial risk factors' relationship with anxiety, depression, and stress. Results: Data showed a strong exposure to psychosocial risks. Work pace and intensity, work relationships, and emotional demands stood out with higher global average percentages for yes answers to "exposure and discomfort." The analysis of the b values and p-values from the multiple linear regression shows that some cross-sectional psychosocial risks are predictors of anxiety and stress dimensions, and other psychosocial risks differ in the two mental health dimensions. However, it is important to highlight that healthcare workers still showed great joy and pleasure in performing their work activities. Conclusion: Support network development in the work environment is needed to prevent healthcare workers' emotional stress and promote their psychological well-being. Therefore, new research is essential to understand the psychosocial risks that affect healthcare workers and assess the less visible effects of work-health relationships.

건강보험 한방의료의 총액계약제 도입방안 (Designing a Global Budget Payment System for Oriental Medical Services in the National Health Insurance)

  • 김진현;김은혜;김윤희
    • 대한예방한의학회지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.77-96
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    • 2010
  • Objectives : This paper recommends a global budget based payment system for reimbursing oriental medical services in the national health insurance. Methods : We analyzed previous research outcomes related to oriental medical services and payment system We reviewed the experiences of other countries' global budget system in terms of their strength and weakness. In addition, we developed a reimbursement method for oriental medical services based on global budget. Results : Our reviews focused on global budget system of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Taiwan. The estimation of global budget in the national health insurance was described in two scenarios. First scenario was to allocate oriental medical services in scale after signing a contract for global budget. In this case, 4.16% of the national health insurance expenditure was allocated for the oriental medical services. Second scenario was to estimate the global budget in a historical context. As a result, the first scenario in total budget was higher than the second, and we proposed a retrospective adjustment method for the gap between the budget and the actual expenditure Conclusions : The payment system for oriental medical services is recommended to shift from fee-for-service to global budget.

비산란 그리드 결함 검출을 위한 최적 임계치결정 기법 (An Optimal Thresholding Technique for Anti-scatter Grid Artifact Detection)

  • 박다울;정우현;강윤석;정중은
    • 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보처리학회 2017년도 추계학술발표대회
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    • pp.954-956
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    • 2017
  • 본 연구에서는 X-선 영상을 이용한 비산란 그리드의 검사 자동화 시스템에서, 결함후보 ROI에 대한 판단정확도를 향상시킬 수 있는 최적영상 획득을 위한 임계치결정 기법을 제안한다. 주파수 도메인에서 영상히스토그램을 분석 및 재구성한 후 최적임계치의 결정에 필요한 요소를 추출하며, 재구성 히스토그램으로부터 영상패턴을 판단하여 각 유형에 따른 최적 임계치를 결정한다. 50개의 영상에 적용한 실험 결과 제안된 방법은 4.8/5.0의 성능 (Inter-class correlation, ICC: 0.985, 95% CI, p-value<0.05)을 보였다.

지속 가능한 의료시스템 재건이 필요하다 (Sustainable Healthcare System Needs to be Rebuilt)

  • 이선희
    • 보건행정학회지
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    • 제32권3호
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    • pp.245-246
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    • 2022
  • Concerns about a global economic recession are rising following the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Accordingly, government entities, which are committed to overcome two barriers to severe inflation and economic recession, are showing high interest in spending management so as not to undermine fiscal soundness. Since the health care sector especially accounts for a large proportion of fiscal expenditure, it should be managed in a manner that the expense is appropriately spent. The National Health Insurance System and Healthcare System have secured international competitiveness and reliability by effectively responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, considerable efforts should be made to reorganize the welfare and healthcare systems so that they can be sustainable during the post-COVID-19 era and the recession.

Trends in US Nursing Research: Links to Global Healthcare Issues

  • Kenner, Carole A.
    • 간호행정학회지
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    • 제23권1호
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2017
  • Nursing research in the United States (US) spans several decades. Many of the priorities/trends have stayed through the years. Today, the goal of producing evidence to support nursing care interventions coupled with the drive for Magnet Recognition has encouraged academic nurses (faculty) to work with nurse clinicians to form research teams. Interdisciplinary research teams have also formed to address growing concerns over patient safety and quality care. These issues are not just US issues but global ones. This article addresses US trends with the link to global research trends. The role that organizations such as the International Council of Nurses (ICN), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Council of International Neonatal Nurses, Inc. (COINN) pay in shaping research agendas and promoting nursing research is highlighted. It emphasizes the key role that nurses, especially nurse leaders/administrators play in changing health outcomes through support of nursing research.

보건소 종사자의 감정노동과 직무소진이 조직유효성에 미치는 영향 (Relationships among Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Organizational Effectiveness of Employees in Public Health Centers)

  • 권동연;안재선
    • 한국보건간호학회지
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    • 제30권3호
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    • pp.544-555
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This study examines the relationship among emotional labor, job burnout and organizational effectiveness of public healthcare center workers. In specific, authors focus on the relationships between emotional labor and job burnout and the one between job burnout and organizational effectiveness and mediating effect of job burnout between emotional labor and organizational effectiveness. Methods: For the empirical analysis, survey was conducted of workers in the public healthcare center, and 502 final data was secured after eliminating the insufficient ones, which were used in the statistical analysis. Results: Emotive effort showed to have a positive effect on organizational effectiveness, however emotive dissonance showed to have a negative effect on organizational effectiveness. Emotive effort showed to reduce the level of all job burnouts while emotive dissonance showed to increase the level of all job burnouts. All job burnout showed to have negative effects on organizational effectiveness. Job burnout showed to have mediating effect between emotional labor and organizational effectiveness. Conclusion: Emotive efforts of emotional labor has positive impact on organizational effectiveness while emotive dissonance has negative impact on organizational effectiveness overall. Therefore, public healthcare center should try to seek for proper way to reduce job burnout of workers, because job burnout functions as mediating element between emotional labor and organizational effectiveness.

노인 재활 헬스케어에 대한 키워드 연결 관계의 그래프 중심성 분석을 통한 계량 정보 분석 (Scientometric Analysis through Centrality Analysis of Graph for Linkage Relation of Keyword for Elder's Rehabilitation and Healthcare)

  • 김명미
    • 한국전자통신학회논문지
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.447-452
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    • 2019
  • 현재 노인 문제가 심각한 수준에 이르고 있다. 본 논문에서는 노인의 재활과 운동 문제를 ICT와 헬스케어 관점에서 해결하고자 하는 노력의 일환으로 이 분야에 대한 세계 연구자들의 노력을 키워드를 기반으로 하여 그래프 기반의 계량 정보 분석 수행한다. 이를 위해 먼저 키워드 연계관계 분석을 수행하고 이를 기반으로 네트워크의 차수 분포 분석한 후 매개 중심성, 근접 중심성, 조화 중심성을 기반으로 한 네트워크의 중심성 분석을 수행한다. 이를 통하여 ICT와 헬스케어 분야에서의 핵심 키워드를 통한 지금까지의 연구 동향과 미래의 연구 진행 방향을 알아본다.

Encryption-based Image Steganography Technique for Secure Medical Image Transmission During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Alkhliwi, Sultan
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.83-93
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    • 2021
  • COVID-19 poses a major risk to global health, highlighting the importance of faster and proper diagnosis. To handle the rise in the number of patients and eliminate redundant tests, healthcare information exchange and medical data are transmitted between healthcare centres. Medical data sharing helps speed up patient treatment; consequently, exchanging healthcare data is the requirement of the present era. Since healthcare professionals share data through the internet, security remains a critical challenge, which needs to be addressed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, computed tomography (CT) and X-ray images play a vital part in the diagnosis process, constituting information that needs to be shared among hospitals. Encryption and image steganography techniques can be employed to achieve secure data transmission of COVID-19 images. This study presents a new encryption with the image steganography model for secure data transmission (EIS-SDT) for COVID-19 diagnosis. The EIS-SDT model uses a multilevel discrete wavelet transform for image decomposition and Manta Ray Foraging Optimization algorithm for optimal pixel selection. The EIS-SDT method uses a double logistic chaotic map (DLCM) is employed for secret image encryption. The application of the DLCM-based encryption procedure provides an additional level of security to the image steganography technique. An extensive simulation results analysis ensures the effective performance of the EIS-SDT model and the results are investigated under several evaluation parameters. The outcome indicates that the EIS-SDT model has outperformed the existing methods considerably.

한국 의료관광 서비스시스템 디자인 (A Service System Design to Support Medical Tourism in South Korea)

  • 윤희성;조성욱;비쟈얀 수구마란
    • 경영정보학연구
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    • 제15권2호
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    • pp.59-73
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    • 2013
  • 인간의 수명연장에 따라 의료비는 꾸준히 상승하고 있고 이에 따라 의료관광시장도 급 성정하고 있다. 한국은 우수한 의료진과 의료인프라를 기반으로 하여 세계의료관광시장에서 두각을 나타내고 있으며 정부에서도 전략성장산업으로 육성, 지원하고 있다. 의료관광산업의 성패는 '의료정보'와 '관광정보'의 접근용이성에 크게 영향을 받을 수밖에 없다. 건강보험공단 등이 많은 의료관련정보를 보유하고 있고 관광관련기관에서도 많은 관광관련정보를 보유하고 있지만 이들 정보가 의료관광객에게 효과적으로 제공되지는 못하고 있는 실정이다. 여기서는 의료관광에 있어 환자와 정보가 의료분야와 관광 분야에서 전달되는지 에 대한 명확한 도표와 서비스 수요자와 공급자의 필요에 대한 것들을 설명하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 의료관광의 소비자와 공급자간에 원활한 정보소통과 효과적 서비스전달을 위한 의료관광 서비스시스템 디자인을 제안하고자 한다.

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