Evaluation of forensic therapies using FOTRES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Bernd Borchard ◽  
Salvatore Giacomuzzi

Forensic therapies are sometimes subject to great fluctuations in terms of their continuity of implementation, their quality, as well as their school of thought. Additionally, they are not adequately measured or evaluated. In many cases, their documentation is insufficiently structured and often incomplete. In this context, the change processes of the client are not well documented and important long-term goals are sometimes lost in the process (Melton et al., 2007). However, well-founded findings are available as to which procedures have proven themselves both empirically and in practice in forensic risk assessments. This article offers an overview of the current forensic assessment process with a particular focus on the Forensic Operationalized Therapy/Risk Evaluation System (FOTRES).

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 23-23
Author(s):  
En Amada ◽  
Hirofumi Kawakubo ◽  
Shuhei Mayanagi ◽  
Kazumasa Fukuda ◽  
Rieko Nakamura ◽  
...  

23 Background: Some studies suggest anastomotic leakage (AL) may adversely affect long-term survival in patients undergoing radical gastrectomy (RG) for gastric cancer (GC). Therefore, we assume that common risk evaluation system for short-term and long-term prognosis can be devised in patients with GC that have undergone RG. Methods: Five hundred and twenty patients undergone RG against GC during May 2012 to March 2017 were enrolled. Patients’ characteristics, preoperative laboratory data, operative information and pathological factors were analyzed. Also AL with Clavien-Dindo classification Grade≥III (AL≥III), disease free survival (DFS) and disease specific survival (DSS) were examined. Results: By bringing patients under classification of “with or without relapse” and “with or without AL≥III”, we identified preoperative body weight (BW), serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and albumin (Alb) level were independent risk factors of both relapse and AL≥III. Stratifying patients with recurrence, we obtained crude hazard ratio (HR) of 1.04 (95% CI: 1.02-1.06) for 1kg-increase of BW, 1.51 (95% CI: 1.08-1.40) for 1mg/dl-increase of CRP and 1.23 (95% CI: 1.34-1.64) for 1g/dl-decrease of Alb. With these HR and median value of each parameters of none-relapse group, we defined ABC score (ABCs) is calculated by following formula; ABCs = (4.1-Alb)*51+(58.5-BW)*4+(CRP-0.05)*23. AL≥III were observed in 3.1% of the cases and ABCs of patients with AL≥III was significantly low (with AL≥III; -22.4, without AL≥III; 9.03, p = 0.045). We determine a cut off value of ABCs to -7 on the basis of the ROC curve. Patients with ABCs≤-7 had significantly high risk of AL≥III and we found ABCs≤-7 is an independent risk factor of AL≥III (HR 1.775, p = 0.003). Also, we stratified patients as Low group (L), Mid group (M), High group (H), by approximate tertile value of ABCs, -20 and 30. We found significant shortening of DFS and DSS in order of L, M and H (DFS; L vs M p = 0.006, Mid vs High p = 0.03, DSS; L vs M p = 0.002, L vs H p < 0.001). Moreover, HR for disease specific death for ABCs≥-20 was 4.2 (p = 0.003) in multivariate analysis. Conclusions: ABCs can be a risk evaluation system for short-term and long-term prognosis in patients with GC that have undergone RG.


Author(s):  
Novan Wijaya

Credit risk evaluation is an importanttopic in financial risk management and become a major focus in the banking sector. This research discusses a credit risk evaluation system using an artificial neural network model based on backpropagation algorithm. This system is to train and test the neural network to determine the predictive value of credit risk, whether high riskorlow risk. This neural network uses 14 input layers, nine hidden layers and an output layer, and the data used comes from the bank that has branches in EastJakarta. The results showed that neural network can be used effectively in the evaluation of credit risk with accuracy of 88% from 100 test data


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Li ◽  
Lingtong Shan ◽  
Mengwei Lv ◽  
Zhi Li ◽  
Chunyan Han ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Preoperative risk evaluation systems are significant and important to the allocation of medical resources and the communication between doctors and patients. The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II (EuroSCORE II) is widely used in clinical practice. Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) can specifically and accurately reflect myocardial injury. Whether EuroSCORE II can improve the predictive power after integrating with cTnT is still unclear. This study was a retrospective single center study designed to assess the predictive ability of EuroSCORE II integrated with cTnT for patients undergoing isolated off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG). Methods This retrospective and observational cohort study included 1887 patients who underwent first isolated OPCABG. cTnT was detected within 48 h before operation in each patient. According to myocardial injury, patients were divided by cTnT into 4 stages. A new risk evaluation system was created through logistic regression with EuroSCORE II and myocardial injury classification as covariates. Then the two risk evaluation systems were comparatively assessed by regression analysis, receiver operator characteristic curves, net reclassification index, Bland–Altman plots and decision curve analysis. Results There were 43 in-hospital deaths, with a mortality of 2.30% (43/1887). The logistic regression analysis showed that preoperative myocardial injury classification was a significant risk factor for in-hospital mortality in both total cohort (OR 1.491, 95%CI 1.049–2.119) and subsets (OR 1.761, 95%CI 1.102–2.814). The new risk evaluation system has higher calibration and discrimination power than EuroSCORE II, both for overall cohort and subsets. Especially, the new system has obvious advantages in discrimination power in the subset of acute myocardial infarction (AUC 0.813 vs. 0.772, 0.906 vs. 0.841, and 0.715 vs. 0.646, respectively). Conclusions Both myocardial injury classification and EuroSCORE II are independent risk factors of in-hospital mortality in OPCABG patients. The new risk evaluation system has higher predictive ability than EuroSCORE II, especially in patients with a recent history of AMI.


CHEST Journal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 2166-2175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip R. Westbrook ◽  
Daniel J. Levendowski ◽  
Milenko Cvetinovic ◽  
Timothy Zavora ◽  
Vladislav Velimirovic ◽  
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