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Appliance of Machine Learning Algorithms in Prudent Clinical Decision-Making Systems in the Healthcare Industry
Published in Ashish Mishra, G. Suseendran, Trung-Nghia Phung, Soft Computing Applications and Techniques in Healthcare, 2020
T. Venkat Narayana Rao, G. Akhila
Medical testing is the process performed in order to diagnose, monitor and detect disease and then establish the course of action. Medical tests are related to molecular diagnostics and clinical chemistry and are usually carried in a medical laboratory.
Acute inhibition of hospital and medical laboratory wastewater on activated sludge
Published in Environmental Technology, 2022
Recep Partal, Selda Murat Hocaoglu, Nevzat Özgu Yigit
Wastewater samples used as test materials in this study were collected from two different healthcare facilities. The first one was a public hospital with a 200-bed capacity and average water consumption of 135 m3/day. In addition to the wastewater from the inpatient department, the wastewater is also generated from laboratory services. Therefore, chemicals used in laboratory services are diluted in mixed wastewater. The second one was a medical laboratory performing analyses from different hospitals and has other laboratories such as biochemistry, microbiology, and immunology. Wastewater generation of this laboratory was approximately 4-5 m3/day. The wastewaters from all laboratories were collected in a balance tank having about five days of hydraulic retention time and do not contain domestic wastewater or toilet wastes. The composite HW was taken as a 24-hour sample, and the MLW was taken from the wastewater storage tank. Before the inhibition tests, HW and MLW characterization was performed using three different. This study tested the percentage of HW and MLW used as test material in the mixture between 10-40%. The total volume of the mixture was a maximum 40%. The maximum test volume depended on test vessel volume, added activated sludge, substrate, and ATU volume. Details of methods are given in the following sections.
An ergonomics-driven QFD model to improve medical laboratory staff and patient satisfaction
Published in Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2022
Amer M. Momani, Tasneem Al-Shaikh, Ahmad Abdelhafiz Mumani, Omar Al-Araidah
Knowing how much ergonomics cost organizations, and how an ergonomically-designed environment can improve productivity, a direction towards ergonomic improvement becomes a necessity, especially for large organizations. However, this direction mostly will not directly satisfy a customer’s demand or needs. This study investigates the effects of a well-designed work environment on medical laboratory employee satisfaction and in turn on patient satisfaction. By evaluating workplace requirements that have a great impact on both employee satisfaction and patient satisfaction and translating the voice of patients into a set of service attributes and key ergonomic processes, an ergonomics-driven QFD methodology is proposed to enhance employees’ performance and the quality of services, which can improve patients’ satisfaction.
Characterization and Treatment of Medical Laboratory Wastewater by Ozonation: Optimization of Toxicity Removal by Central Composite Design
Published in Ozone: Science & Engineering, 2021
Irfan Basturk, Gamze Varank, Selda Murat-Hocaoglu, Senem Yazici-Guvenc, Elmas Eva Oktem-Olgun, Oltan Canli
MLW samples were obtained from a medical laboratory establishment which had biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, IFA (Indirect Fluorescent Antibody), PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), and LC-MS/MS laboratories. They were taken at 21 different times between the years 2016 and 2018 to perform characterization studies. At the medical laboratory, the analyses of the samples of 11 different hospitals were being performed, and most of the analyses were being actualized at the biochemistry laboratory. At the laboratory, about 50 analyzers–mostly in the field of biochemistry-were being used. For analysis, analyzers were using kits covering various chemicals, irrigation solutions, small amounts of samples (blood, urine, bodily fluid, etc.), and high amounts of deionized water. The wastewaters arising at the laboratory were ones arising as the result of only the laboratory activities, and they were being collected in a wastewater tank of 25 tons. Domestic wastewaters were not being discharged to that tank. When the wastewater tank filled up, the tank was automatically discharged to the sewage system. The parameters and micro-contaminants monitored in the wastewater samples are given in Table 1.