Latest AI and machine learning research in practice management for healthcare professionals.
BACKGROUND: Postoperative delirium is a common complication after cardiac surgery, and perioperative inflammation may contribute to its development. However, the association between preoperative blood indicators and postoperative delirium in patients receiving propofol-based anesthesia remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: To identify preoperative blood indicators associated with postoperative delirium risk...
BACKGROUND: Empathic communication in the clinical setting has been associated with improved clinical outcomes, decreased anxiety, and increased patient satisfaction, treatment adherence, and trust. Despite the recent growth in patient portal use, the expression of empathic communication through patient portal secure messages is not well understood. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to construct a codin...
BACKGROUND: The use of social media (SoMe) during crisis and disaster situations (CaDs) has gained increasing attention across disciplines. However, e...
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being introduced into healthcare, including patient communication, monitoring, triage, decisi...
BACKGROUND: Older adults requiring emergency surgery for acute tibial fractures are vulnerable to hospital-associated complications (HACs), but admiss...
BACKGROUND: Skin neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) pose significant diagnostic and management challenges in resource-limited settings due to constrai...
BACKGROUND: Allied Health Professional (AHP) services in England assess, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate patients across a wide range of health and c...
BACKGROUND: Mental health issues continue to increase worldwide, often intensified by stigma and lack of awareness. Social media has become a major sp...
INTRODUCTION: Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are widely used to assess clinical competence, but face challenges related to examine...
The synergistic integration of chemotherapy and immunotherapy represents the most promising strategy for enhancing therapeutic efficacy in cancer trea...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single stranded, short, non-coding, and highly conserved RNA molecules with around 22 nucleotides. They regulate gene expressio...
Visual behavior requires coordinated activity across hierarchically organized brain circuits. Understanding this complexity demands datasets that are ...
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is classified as an immunologically cold tumor, which markedly weakens the therapeutic efficacy of immune checkpo...
Wildfire smoke is a major source of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and may increase vulnerability to severe infectious outcomes such as sepsis, a con...
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer (PCa) is a prevalent urological malignancy in men, with bone metastasis occurring in the majority of patients, often leadi...
PURPOSE: Among the extraintestinal ocular manifestations of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), episcleritis is associated with the inflam...
INTRODUCTION: Ischemic stroke remains a leading cause of death in the United States, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating disparities. Prior studie...
BACKGROUND: Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective approach for supporting health behaviorchange, but face-to-face delivery is resource-intens...
Seminal frameworks of predictive coding propose a hierarchy of generative modules, each attempting to infer the neural representation of the module on...
Medicinal plants are a valuable reservoir of diverse secondary metabolites (SMs), which serve as essential sources for natural drug development. Howev...