Definition of an XML Markup Language for Clinical Laboratory Procedures and Comparison with Generic XML Markup

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 312-313
Author(s):  
M.G. Bissell
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Markup Language ◽  
Laboratory Procedures ◽  
Definition Of

scholarly journals Definition of an XML Markup Language for Clinical Laboratory Procedures and Comparison with Generic XML Markup

2006 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 1943-1951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilan M Saadawi ◽  
James H Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Word Processor ◽  
Document Management ◽  
Markup Language ◽  
Laboratory Procedure ◽  
Document Structure ◽  
Type Definition ◽  
Laboratory Procedures ◽  
Data Elements

Abstract Background: Clinical laboratory procedure manuals are typically maintained as word processor files and are inefficient to store and search, require substantial effort for review and updating, and integrate poorly with other laboratory information. Electronic document management systems could improve procedure management and utility. As a first step toward building such systems, we have developed a prototype electronic format for laboratory procedures using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Methods: Representative laboratory procedures were analyzed to identify document structure and data elements. This information was used to create a markup vocabulary, CLP-ML, expressed as an XML Document Type Definition (DTD). To determine whether this markup provided advantages over generic markup, we compared procedures structured with CLP-ML or with the vocabulary of the Health Level Seven, Inc. (HL7) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) narrative block. Results: CLP-ML includes 124 XML tags and supports a variety of procedure types across different laboratory sections. When compared with a general-purpose markup vocabulary (CDA narrative block), CLP-ML documents were easier to edit and read, less complex structurally, and simpler to traverse for searching and retrieval. Conclusion: In combination with appropriate software, CLP-ML is designed to support electronic authoring, reviewing, distributing, and searching of clinical laboratory procedures from a central repository, decreasing procedure maintenance effort and increasing the utility of procedure information. A standard electronic procedure format could also allow laboratories and vendors to share procedures and procedure layouts, minimizing duplicative word processor editing. Our results suggest that laboratory-specific markup such as CLP-ML will provide greater benefit for such systems than generic markup.

scholarly journals Unveiling the Link between the Third Law of Comminution and the Grinding Kinetics Behaviour of Several Ores

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1079
Author(s):  
Victor Ciribeni ◽  
Juan M. Menéndez-Aguado ◽  
Regina Bertero ◽  
Andrea Tello ◽  
Enzo Avellá ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Procedure ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Excellent Correlation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Work Index ◽  
Bond Work Index ◽  
Laboratory Procedures ◽  
Grinding Kinetics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Index Estimation

As a continuation of a previous research work carried out to estimate the Bond work index (wi) by using a simulator based on the cumulative kinetic model (CKM), a deeper analysis was carried out to determine the link between the kinetic and energy parameters in the case of metalliferous and non-metallic ore samples. The results evidenced a relationship between the CKM kinetic parameter k and the grindability index gbp; and also with the wi, obtained following the standard procedure. An excellent correlation was obtained in both cases, posing the definition of alternative work index estimation tests with the advantages of more straightforward and quicker laboratory procedures.

scholarly journals Freestyle Markup Language

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Pondorf ◽  
Andreas Witt
Keyword(s):  
Markup Language ◽  
Object Graph ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Current Standards

This paper provides a new generation of a markup language by introducing the Freestyle Markup Language (FML). Demands placed on the language are elaborated, considering current standards and discussions. Conception, a grammatical definition, a corresponding object graph and the bi-directional unambiguous transformation between these two congruent representation forms are set up. The result of this paper is a fundamental definition of a completely new markup language, consolidating many deficiency-discourses and experiences into one particular implementation concept, encouraging the evolution of markup.

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-154
Author(s):  
Alejandro Hoberman ◽  
Ellen R. Wald
Keyword(s):  
Private Practice ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Effective Care ◽  
Laboratory Procedures ◽  
The One ◽  
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments

Dr Murray correctly points out that the concerns of office-based pediatricians regarding regulations imposed by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) greatly affect the likely implementation of "new laboratory procedures" within the private practice sector. Although these regulatory agencies, on the one hand, intend to assure quality control when evaluating specimens and on the other hand, safety for patients and employees, they are often perceived as obstacles to effective care.

The Clinical Laboratory and the Commitment to Quality

2020 ◽  
pp. 204-239
Author(s):  
Marilena Stamouli ◽  
Antonia Mourtzikou
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Medical Laboratory ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Clinical Laboratories ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Harmonization Process ◽  
Six Sigma Methodology ◽  
Total Testing Process ◽  
Definition Of

The main role that clinical laboratories play in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases is clearly evident. Clinical laboratories need to sustain a commitment to quality and demonstrate a certifiable level of compliance. Many strategies are used to reduce laboratory errors, including internal QC procedures, external quality assessment programs, implementation of QIs and six-sigma methodology. All strategies should be consistent with the requirements of the international standard for medical laboratory accreditation and suitable for promoting corrective/preventive actions. They must promote total quality and patient safety and be consistent with the definition of a laboratory error. Harmonization process is in progress; however, further efforts must be made. Total quality management must be evaluated periodically. For a patient-centered approach, there is the need to assure that each and every step of the total testing process is correctly performed, that weaknesses are recognized, and that corrective and preventive actions are designed and implemented.

scholarly journals A balanced scorecard for assessing a strategic plan in a clinical laboratory

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-291
Author(s):  
Luisa Alvarez ◽  
Anna Soler ◽  
Leonor Guiñón ◽  
Aurea Mira
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Reference Laboratory ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Public And Private Sector

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a tool for strategic management that is used in many companies and organizations worldwide, both in the public and private sector. With this purpose it has also been used in healthcare organizations and institutions but there are not many studies on the implementation of BSC methodology in the day-to-day clinical laboratory. This review shows the strategy for the development of a BSC, which includes theoretical perspective objectives, as well as some indicators and goals with which the monitoring and quantitative measurement of the achievements of a strategic plan in a clinical laboratory can be done. Moreover, the results of the indicators allow the prioritization of the initiatives to be implemented each year. The methodology for the development of the proposed BSC includes the following steps: definition of theoretical objectives of each of the perspectives most used in the management of a clinical laboratory (customers, financial, internal processes and learning) taking into account the vision and the organizational model of the laboratory; creation of a strategic map of perspective objectives; definition of the relevant indicators to follow up on the objectives in a quantitative manner and establishment of the goals. Whether or not the laboratory is a reference laboratory, in which specific and infrequent analysis and health population programs are performed, is another fact to take into account. In this review a BSC for a reference clinical laboratory of the Spanish public sector is shown.

scholarly journals OpinionML—Opinion Markup Language for Sentiment Representation

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Attik ◽  
Malik Missen ◽  
Mickaël Coustaty ◽  
Gyu Choi ◽  
Fahd Alotaibi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Markup Language ◽  
Basic Definition ◽  
Markup Languages ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Temporal Expressions ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison ◽  
Definition Of

It is the age of the social web, where people express themselves by giving their opinions about various issues, from their personal life to the world’s political issues. This process generates a lot of opinion data on the web that can be processed for valuable information, and therefore, semantic annotation of opinions becomes an important task. Unfortunately, existing opinion annotation schemes have failed to satisfy annotation challenges and cannot even adhere to the basic definition of opinion. Opinion holders, topical features and temporal expressions are major components of an opinion that remain ignored in existing annotation schemes. In this work, we propose OpinionML, a new Markup Language, that aims to compensate for the issues that existing typical opinion markup languages fail to resolve. We present a detailed discussion about existing annotation schemes and their associated problems. We argue that OpinionML is more robust, flexible and easier for annotating opinion data. Its modular approach while implementing a logical model provides us with a flexible and easier model of annotation. OpinionML can be considered a step towards “information symmetry”. It is an effort for consistent sentiment annotations across the research community. We perform experiments to prove robustness of the proposed OpinionML and the results demonstrate its capability of retrieving significant components of opinion segments. We also propose OpinionML ontology in an effort to make OpinionML more inter-operable. The ontology proposed is more complete than existing opinion ontologies like Marl and Onyx. A comprehensive comparison of the proposed ontology with existing sentiment ontologies Marl and Onyx proves its worth.

scholarly journals GPML: an XML-based standard for the interchange of genetic programming trees

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiantian Dou ◽  
Yuri Kaszubowski Lopes ◽  
Peter Rockett ◽  
Elizabeth A. Hathway ◽  
Esmail Saber
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Programming ◽  
Markup Language ◽  
Formal Definition ◽  
Model Predictive Controller ◽  
Predictive Controller ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Heating Plant

AbstractWe propose a genetic programming markup language (GPML), an XML-based standard for the interchange of genetic programming trees, and outline the benefits such a format would bring in allowing the deployment of trained genetic programming (GP) models in applications as well as the subsidiary benefit of allowing GP researchers to directly share trained trees. We present a formal definition of this standard and describe details of an implementation. In addition, we present a case study where GPML is used to implement a model predictive controller for the control of a building heating plant.

Characterization of High-Purity Chemicals for Use as Clinical Laboratory Standards

1971 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 841-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
A J Barnard ◽  
E F Joy ◽  
F W Michelotti
Keyword(s):  
Differential Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Uric Acid ◽  
High Purity ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Phase Solubility ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Layer Chromatography

Abstract Some practical approaches to the broad analytical definition of high-purity chemicals for use as clinical laboratory standards are highlighted. Techniques applied include precision gravimetry and titrimetry, differential scanning calorimetry, phase solubility analysis, emission spectrography, flame absorption photometry, polarography, cold-vapor atomic absorption photometry (for mercury), solution photometry, turbidimetry, thin-layer chromatography, as well as general tests, and the measurement of properties. The characterization of various standards is delineated, including standards for calcium, chloride, lithium, magnesium, phosphate, potassium, sodium, creatinine, dextrose, glycine, urea, and uric acid.

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