Latest AI and machine learning research in public health & policy for healthcare professionals.
INTRODUCTION: Trigger tool methodologies have become important approaches for detecting adverse events in hospital care because they identify more harm than conventional incident reporting systems. Their role is particularly relevant for medication-related harm, which is often under-recognized or insufficiently documented in routine clinical practice. AREAS COVERED: This structured narrative revie...
Viral infections are a major contributor to global cancer incidence and mortality. However, integrative reviews that connect viral classification, carcinogenic mechanisms, tumor microenvironment remodeling, and translational strategies remain limited. This review summarizes the classification and epidemiological characteristics of major oncogenic viruses, including human papillomavirus (HPV), Epst...
RATIONALE: Resource-limited or austere environments represent a direct threat to the likelihood of survival of patients in need of emergent care. Medi...
Among various modifiable risk factors, dietary patterns (DPs), as a holistic lifestyle intervention, have become a focus of current research due to th...
Clostridioides difficile exemplifies a pathogen that leverages its metabolic plasticity to exploit nutrients that become available during community di...
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: Youth-onset diabetes mellitus (DM) is an increasing public health concern, especially among adolescents facing socioeconomic challenges. F...
Safety helmet compliance monitoring remains challenging because helmets often occupy only a few pixels in wide-area surveillance images. This study ta...
BACKGROUND: This study investigates malaria incidence trends in mainland China from 2005 to 2020, to elucidate its epidemiological characteristics and...
Accurate forecasting of infectious disease cases and deaths is crucial for public health decision-making. Traditional statistical and machine learning...
BACKGROUND: Manual chart abstraction from electronic health records is a critical step in clinical outcomes research but is time-intensive and prone t...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasingly recognised as a One Health challenge in which environmental reservoirs play an important role in the pe...
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the correlation of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure with low back pain (LBP) and determine if the underlying molecular...
BACKGROUND: Physical activity among adults with disabilities is influenced by functional limitations, health status, and socioeconomic conditions; yet...
BACKGROUND: Heatstroke (HS) encompasses acute multi-organ dysfunction and increases susceptibility to subsequent heat-related conditions, making timel...
Vibrio cholerae thrives at the interface between the aquatic environment and the human host dynamically through integration of environmental signals t...
BACKGROUND: Hearing loss (HL) is common in older adults and is associated with substantial functional decline, yet community-based evidence on its det...
Atopic dermatitis (AD) and allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) are common inflammatory skin diseases influenced by environmental factors, but disease-sp...
PURPOSE: To introduce and evaluate OphthoChat, a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant, artificial intelligence (AI)‑powered n...
Transfusion medicine has practiced a form of precision medicine for decades through compatibility testing, infectious disease screening, component man...