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A systematic review on the usability of robotic and virtual reality devices in neuromotor rehabilitation: patients' and healthcare professionals' perspective.

BMC health services research
BACKGROUND: The application of virtual reality (VR) and robotic devices in neuromotor rehabilitation has provided promising evidence in terms of efficacy, so far. Usability evaluations of these technologies have been conducted extensively, but no ove...

Physicians' preferences and willingness to pay for artificial intelligence-based assistance tools: a discrete choice experiment among german radiologists.

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BACKGROUND: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based assistance tools have the potential to improve the quality of healthcare when adopted by providers. This work attempts to elicit preferences and willingness to pay for these tools among German radiologis...

Identification of data elements for blood gas analysis dataset: a base for developing registries and artificial intelligence-based systems.

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BACKGROUND: One of the challenging decision-making tasks in healthcare centers is the interpretation of blood gas tests. One of the most effective assisting approaches for the interpretation of blood gas analysis (BGA) can be artificial intelligence ...

Making sense of the French public hospital system: a network-based approach to hospital clustering using unsupervised learning methods.

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BACKGROUND: Hospitals in the public and private sectors tend to join larger organizations to form hospital groups. This increasingly frequent mode of functioning raises the question of how countries should organize their health system, according to t...

Professionals' responses to the introduction of AI innovations in radiology and their implications for future adoption: a qualitative study.

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BACKGROUND: Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations in radiology offer a potential solution to the increasing demand for imaging tests and the ongoing workforce crisis. Crucial to their adoption is the involvement of different professional groups, n...

Five regions, five retinopathy screening programmes: a systematic review of how Portugal addresses the challenge.

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BACKGROUND: The implementation of a population-based screening programme for diabetic retinopathy involves several challenges, often leading to postponements and setbacks at high human and material costs. Thus, it is of the utmost importance to promo...

Identification of care tasks for the use of wearable transfer support robots - an observational study at nursing facilities using robots on a daily basis.

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BACKGROUND: To reduce the physical burden of caregivers, wearable transfer support robots are highly desirable. Although these robots are reportedly effective for specific tasks in experimental environments, there is little information about their ef...

Understanding providers' attitudes and key concerns toward incorporating CVD risk prediction into clinical practice: a qualitative study.

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BACKGROUND: Although risk prediction has become an integral part of clinical practice guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, multiple studies have shown that patients' risk still plays almost no role in clinical decision-making. Beca...

A plea to merge clinical and public health practices: reasons and consequences.

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BACKGROUND: Revisiting professionalism, both as a medical ideal and educational topic, this paper asks whether, in the rise of artificial intelligence, healthcare commoditisation and environmental challenges, a rationale exists for merging clinical a...

Comparison of statistical and machine learning models for healthcare cost data: a simulation study motivated by Oncology Care Model (OCM) data.

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BACKGROUND: The Oncology Care Model (OCM) was developed as a payment model to encourage participating practices to provide better-quality care for cancer patients at a lower cost. The risk-adjustment model used in OCM is a Gamma generalized linear mo...