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Laura F Webster

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A practical approach to hospital visitation during a pandemic: responding with compassion to unjustified restrictions

K Jones-Bonofiglio, N Nortjé, L Webster… - American Journal of Critical …, 2021 - AACN
During the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence-based resources have been sought to support
decision-making and strategically inform hospitals' policies, procedures, and practices …

Prospective evaluation of an artificial intelligence-enabled algorithm for automated diabetic retinopathy screening of 30 000 patients

P Heydon, C Egan, L Bolter, R Chambers… - British Journal of …, 2021 - bjo.bmj.com
Background/aims Human grading of digital images from diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening
programmes represents a significant challenge, due to the increasing prevalence of …

Identification of sources of Escherichia coli in South Carolina estuaries using antibiotic resistance analysis

LF Webster, BC Thompson, MH Fulton… - Journal of Experimental …, 2004 - Elsevier
Fecal pollution from nonhuman (pets, livestock or wildlife) and human sources is often one
of the major factors associated with urbanization that contribute to the degradation of water …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of automated disease detection in diabetic retinopathy screening using two-field photography

K Goatman, A Charnley, L Webster, S Nussey - PLOS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Aim To assess the performance of automated disease detection in diabetic retinopathy
screening using two field mydriatic photography. Methods Images from 8,271 sequential …

People with type 1 diabetes of African Caribbean Ethnicity are at increased risk of developing sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy

A Mangelis, P Wijewickrama, A Nirmalakumaran… - Diabetes …, 2023 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE There is limited information on the effect of ethnicity on the development of
referable sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in people with type 1 diabetes. This …

Perspectives of triage team members participating in statewide triage simulations for scarce resource allocation during the covid-19 pandemic in Washington state

CR Butler, LB Webster, DS Diekema… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The COVID-19 pandemic prompted health care institutions worldwide to develop
plans for allocation of scarce resources in crisis capacity settings. These plans frequently …

Using multiple antibiotic resistance and land use characteristics to determine sources of fecal coliform bacterial pollutiion

RH Kelsey, GI Scott, DE Porter, B Thompson… - … : Proceedings of the Fifth …, 2003 - Springer
Abstract Multiple Antibiotic Resistance (MAR) analysis and regression modeling techniques
were used to identify surface water areas impacted by fecal pollution from human sources …

Effect of Louisiana sweet crude oil on a Pacific coral, Pocillopora damicornis

LA May, AR Burnett, CV Miller, E Pisarski, LF Webster… - Aquatic toxicology, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent oil spill responses such as the Deepwater Horizon event have underscored the need
for crude oil ecotoxicological threshold data for shallow water corals to assist in natural …

Effects on alcohol consumption of announcing and implementing revised UK low-risk drinking guidelines: findings from an interrupted time series analysis

J Holmes, E Beard, J Brown, A Brennan… - J Epidemiol …, 2020 - jech.bmj.com
Background In January 2016, the UK announced and began implementing revised
guidelines for low-risk drinking of 14 units (112 g) per week for men and women. This was a …

Staffing crisis capacity: a different approach to healthcare resource allocation for a different type of scarce resource

CR Butler, LB Webster, DS Diekema - Journal of medical ethics, 2022 - jme.bmj.com
Severe staffing shortages have emerged as a prominent threat to maintaining usual
standards of care during the COVID-2019 pandemic. In dire settings of crisis capacity …