Questions tagged [healthcare-data]
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Why is Clostridium difficile toxin A + B outdated in snomed?
I'm looking at the new version of the Snomed dictionary and the concept 707993000 Clostridium difficile toxin A + B (substance) is deactivated (and outdated) since version 20170731. Can anybody ...
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Cancer Life Expectancy
I understand there is data for 5/10 year survival rates for different cancers. Is there any data on survival rates for survivors? IE what is the patient's 5 year survival rate, given no recurrence in ...
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Is Kiwi low or high fructose?
It's ridiculous: on some websites I see info that it is low fructose and on the other it is high fructose (not even moderate).
Here for example it goes as high in fructose.
And here it goes as low.
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Is there any reason why free sugar consumption should be limited to low amounts?
The terminology free sugars is possibly related to mono and dissacharides. It is not clear to me if it means precisely just refined sugars or both, refined and not refined.
There is a WHO study ...
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Where to find data on age-distributed exercise frequency?
I am now looking for some data on exercise frequency, only the strenuous/aerobic ones, and apparently it is quite hard to find data across different age groups. Hence I wonder whether there is some ...
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Medical Images and workflow
What is the general workflow involved in managing images such as x-ray, scan etc in a day to day job of a healthcare-technician or a doctor?
I am interested to know more about how these images are ...
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In what format does your practice send patient records to individuals who request it in electronic format?
I am currently a student studying at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology looking to develop a new medium for patients to manage their health records. My biggest question for you all is in what ...
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Is there a medical database with data (measured from patients) for research?
I am currently working on a mathematical project about optimisation problems in pharmacokinetics. To make it more practical and interesting, I was thinking of making some computations on actual data. ...
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Largest number of NDC characters
I'm trying to set the data type for NDC codes in a database, with a length on the data type.
When reading about National Drug Codes (NDC), I'm finding that most codes are either 10 or 11 characters. ...
