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This is a non-randomized evaluation for which 160 adult patients will be imaged at outpatient wound care clinics who present with a wound of unknown infection diagnostic status and are receiving standard treatment. The MolecuLight i:X Imaging Device will be used as an adjunctive tool in the assessment of the wound and may be used to guide the targeted sampling of a wound (using a conventional punch biopsy method).

Background: Contact sensors can cause injuries and infections in newborn infants with fragile skin. The impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) radar is recently demonstrated in adults as a contactless method to measure heart rate. The purpose of this study is to assess heart rate (HR) in neonates using IR-UWB radar and evaluate its accuracy, compared to the electrocardiogram (ECG) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Methods: HR is recorded in newborn infants using both IR-UWB radar 35 cm away from the chest and ECG simultaneously in the NICU. The HR data during sleeping/calm state are automatically collected by a software algorithm. A total values averaged from a 30-second window every 10 s is used for the analysis. Data acquired on the same patient with standard electrocardiogram has been used for comparison.

Many studies, including our own, have shown that colorectal cancer (CRC) is related to changes in the microbiome of the colon. However, there are limitations in most studies and questions remained unanswered. Some early data showing that the microbiome in the left vs right colon are different. The aim of this study is to investigate the microbiome (including bacteriome, virome, and fungome) of adenoma/CRC comparing the left (distal to splenic flexure) vs right side (proximal to splenic flexure) of the colon.

We prospectively reviewed the results of 30 patients who had undergone intramedullary fixation with a gamma nail for femur trochentric fractures in AUH. within 1 year

To assess the need of respiratory gated radiotherapy in left sided breast cancer patients.

Renal failure and high plasmatic level of urea have been associated with an increased risk of hemorrhage in surgical patients. There is only sparse data on the impact of renal replacement therapy on homeostatic parameters. The aim of this study is to describe potential changes in homeostatic parameters before and after renal replacement therapy.

This study is a single center, minimal risk, physician initiated retrospective chart review. An analysis of treatment timelines for patients diagnosed with lung cancer within the St. Elizabeth system from January 2013 until study completion. The study investigator and designee(s) will review patient electronic medical records, extracting data related to the symptom presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of new diagnoses of lung cancer. Collected data will focus on dates of encounters, diagnostic imaging/procedures, and treatments, with data analysis evaluating time between care encounters and potential delays in care. The data will be further stratified based on system-wide changes implemented to improve efficiency, patient outcomes, and patient experience.

An objective measure of treatment response could be a valuable new tool in the armamentarium of depression management, and this holds true for stimulation-based and pharmacological therapies alike. Hence, the Medibio Depression Monitoring Study will use the Medibio analytics platform to characterize autonomic, circadian, and sleep patterns before and during the initial 8 weeks of pharmacologic therapy for moderate-to-severe depression. The study will also explore any differences in these measures between treatment responders and non-responders, and between depression subtypes, including bipolar and unipolar depression. The study will also characterize longitudinal, ambulatory EEG measures throughout the observation period.

The study was conducted to observe the clinical features during pregnancy in women with chronic hepatitis B virus infection and mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus.

Agitation, paranoia, and suicide risk of the psychiatric patients made them difficult to be managed when they visited medical emergency services. The prolonged waiting time at medical emergency services and the stigmatization of psychiatric medicine also made the psychiatric emergency services full of challenges. However, in recent years, the random killings, celebrity suicide and other major social events attracted much attention to the emergency psychiatry. Following the establishment of the National Health Insurance, the law of mandatory admission, and the prevalence change of all psychiatric diseases, we are now dealing with totally different types of emergent psychiatric conditions, i.e., depression and suicide. However, the real epidemiological data need to be updated. Psychiatric emergency is one of the entrances of the psychiatric network. A comprehensive review of the psychiatric emergency would be needed for the base of further research. This study is aimed to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric diagnosis of patients who came to Emergency Department of National Taiwan University Hospital and needed a psychiatric consultation. The epidemiological data will be compared to those collected 30 years ago in the same hospital to examine the 30-year trend. On the other hand, the visiting time and the staying time will be analyzed. The stress of on-duty and the contributing factors will be assessed by a 2-hour in-depth interview with psychiatric residents.