Clinical Trials

Excellence in Total Worker Health® and an Interview With Dr Laura Linnan.

The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines as "policies, programs and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance worker well-being." This editorial features an interview with Dr Laura Linnan, a leader of the workplace health and well-being movement and a Principal ...

Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty: Experience of a Single Pediatric Institution, Including Long-term and Safety Outcomes.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (RALP) and describe the short and long-term outcomes of pediatric RALP.

The usefulness of artificial intelligence for safety assessment of different transport modes.

Recent research in transport safety focuses on the processing of large amounts of available data by means of intelligent systems, in order to decrease...

Bat4RCT: A suite of benchmark data and baseline methods for text classification of randomized controlled trials.

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) play a major role in aiding biomedical research and practices. To inform this research, the demand for highly accu...

Dense reinforcement learning for safety validation of autonomous vehicles.

One critical bottleneck that impedes the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles is the prohibitively high economic and time costs required ...

Electrical Stimulation Induced Current Distribution in Peripheral Nerves Varies Significantly with the Extent of Nerve Damage: A Computational Study Utilizing Convolutional Neural Network and Realistic Nerve Models.

Electrical stimulation of the peripheral nervous system is a promising therapeutic option for several conditions; however, its effects on tissue and t...

Clinical efficacy of robot-assisted subxiphoid versus lateral thoracic approach in the treatment of anterior mediastinal tumors.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to compare the perioperative efficacy and safety of da Vinci robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) for...

Impact of educational video on performance in robotic simulation training (TAKUMI-1): a randomized controlled trial.

The use of virtual reality for simulations plays an important role in the initial training for robotic surgery. This randomized controlled trial aimed...

A novel use of an artificially intelligent Chatbot and a live, synchronous virtual question-and answer session for fellowship recruitment.

INTRODUCTION: Academic departments universally communicate information about their programs using static websites. In addition to websites, some progr...

Commentary on "Comparative Effectiveness of Robot-Assisted Training Versus Enhanced Upper Extremity Therapy on Upper and Lower Extremity for Stroke Survivors: A Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial".

Computational design of clinical trials using a combination of simulation and the genetic algorithm.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come to be used in various technological fields in recent years. However, there have been no reports of AI-designed c...

Robot assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy with maximal urethral length preservation technique preserves penile length.

Penile shortening is a recognized but neglected side effect of prostate cancer treatment. In this study we explore the effect of maximal urethral leng...

An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating the Association of Symptom Clusters With Adverse Outcomes Among Older Adults With Advanced Cancer: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

IMPORTANCE: Older adults with advanced cancer who have high pretreatment symptom severity often experience adverse events during cancer treatments. Un...

Open vs robotic intracorporeal Padua ileal bladder: functional outcomes of a single-centre RCT.

PURPOSE: Functional outcomes of robot-assisted (RA) radical cystectomy (RC) with intracorporeal orthotopic neobladder (i-ON) have been poorly investig...

Effect of an Artificial Intelligence Decision Support Tool on Palliative Care Referral in Hospitalized Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

CONTEXT: Palliative care services are commonly provided to hospitalized patients, but accurately predicting who needs them remains a challenge.

Evaluation of Robotic Systems on Cytotoxic Drug Preparation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

: With the increased prevalence of patients with cancer, the demand for preparing cytotoxic drugs was increased by health-system pharmacists. To reduc...

Machine learning approaches to predict drug efficacy and toxicity in oncology.

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in using machine learning algorithms (MLAs) in oncology, particularly for biomedical applications ...

Advances in materials-based therapeutic strategies against osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is caused by the disruption in homeostasis between bone formation and bone resorption. Conventional management of osteoporosis involves s...

A relational agent for treating substance use in adults: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial with a psychoeducational comparator.

BACKGROUND: Substance use disorders (SUDs) are prevalent and compromise health and wellbeing. Scalable solutions, such as digital therapeutics, may of...

Robotic Single-Site Hysterectomy in Gynecologic Benign Pathology: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Total hysterectomy is one of the most common gynecologic surgical procedures and it is mainly performed for benign pathologies. The introduction of r...