Essays about: "hospital care."

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  1. 21. Transgender and gender-diverse youth caught in the intersection of policy making, politics, gender-affirming care, and feminist discourse

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Julia Hagstedt; [2022]
    Keywords : Transgender youth; policy making; feminism; UK; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how presuppositions and assumptions can affect policy making, by investigating if anti-trans and 'gender critical' rhetoric may have affected the now reversed NHS policy ‘Amendments to service specification for gender identity development service for children and adolescents’ which directly influenced the still in use Karolinska University Hospital policy, ‘Policyförändring gällande hormonell behandling till minderåriga patienter med könsdysfori inom Tema Barn’. By using the Foucauldian inspired poststructural WPR policy analysis method by Bacchi and Goodwin, it was uncovered that the underlying assumptions and presuppositions of the hegemonic ‘truths’ the representation of the problem relied on, assumed dominance through an increase of anti-transgender and anti-gender-diverse rhetoric in political and public debates, and in media. READ MORE

  3. 22. Postoperativ kroppstemperatur hos hundar som genomgått tandåtgärd

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

    Author : Jonna Eriksson; Felicia Jonsson; [2022]
    Keywords : djuromvårdnad; hypotermi; journal; monitorering; postoperativ; PTR;

    Abstract : Djur som genomgår anestesi utsätts för flera risker, en av de vanligaste är att djuret drabbas av hypotermi. I en hypoterm kropp sker det flera fysiologiska förändringar som påverkar djuret negativt. Hypotermi kan till exempel leda till ökat syrgasbehov, dysfunktion av organsystem, ökad risk för infektioner och längre återhämtningstid. READ MORE

  4. 23. Towards Causal Discovery on EHR data : Evaluation of current Causal Discovery methods on the MIMIC-IV data set

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Pontus Olausson; [2022]
    Keywords : Causal Discovery; Time-Series; MIMIC-IV; EHR; Kasual Upptäckt; Tidsserier; MIMIC-IV; elektroniska patientjournaler;

    Abstract : Causal discovery is the problem of learning causal relationships between variables from a set of data. One interesting area of use for causal discovery is the health care domain, where application could help facilitate a better understanding of disease and treatment mechanisms. READ MORE

  5. 24. Birth in Power, Case study of homebirth in France and its link to sustainability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Gabrielle Artus; [2022]
    Keywords : Homebirth; Ecofeminism; Empowerment; Nature; Animality; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : If homebirth can offer better outcomes than hospital-birth why do so few French women make this choice? The literature review on birth in France shows an increasing critique of overmedicalization. Through an Ecofeminist approach, conducting a qualitative questionnaire and interviews I found women choosing homebirth seek intimacy, respect and to avoid fear-based protocols and hospitals' violence. READ MORE

  6. 25. CondBEHRT: A Conditional Probability Based Transformer for Modeling Medical Ontology

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för informationsteknologi

    Author : Linus Lerjebo; Johannes Hägglund; [2022]
    Keywords : Artificial Intelligence; Explainable AI; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Data Mining; Electronic Health Records; Transformer; Graph Neural Network; Natural Language Processing; Hypertension; Kidney Disease; Heart Failure; Medical Ontology;

    Abstract : In recent years the number of electronic healthcare records (EHRs)has increased rapidly. EHR represents a systematized collection of patient health information in a digital format. EHR systems maintain diagnoses, medications, procedures, and lab tests associated with the patients at each time they visit the hospital or care center. READ MORE