INTRODUCTION: The world's population is aging rapidly, leading to increased public health and economic burdens due to age-related cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Early risk detection is essential for prevention and to improve the quali...
To assess the overall experience of a patient in a hospital, many factors must be analyzed; nonetheless, one of the key aspects is the performance of nurses as they closely interact with patients on many occasions. Nurses carry out many tasks that co...
About 40 000 individuals depend on assisted living in long-term care facilities in Norway. Around 80% of these have a cognitive impairment or suffer from dementia. This actualizes the need for activities that are tailored to individual needs. For som...
We derived machine learning models utilizing features generated by natural language processing (NLP) of free-text data from an ambulance services provider to identify fall cases. The data comprised samples of electronic patient care records care reco...
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic, costly disease and is a serious global population health problem. Yet, the disease is well manageable and preventable if there is an early warning. This study aims to apply supervised machine learning algorithms for deve...
In neurosurgical or orthopedic clinics, the differential diagnosis of lower back pain is often time-consuming and costly. This is especially true when there are several candidate diagnoses with similar symptoms that might confuse clinic physicians. T...
Childhood stunting is a serious public health concern in Bangladesh. Earlier research used conventional statistical methods to identify the risk factors of stunting, and very little is known about the applications and usefulness of machine learning (...
Given the association between vitamin D deficiency and risk for cardiovascular disease, we used machine learning approaches to establish a model to predict the probability of deficiency. Determination of serum levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D...
Humanoid robots have already been shown to be useful in healthcare. To ensure successful interactions with humanoid robots, is it essential that the factors that influence users' sense of security be understood. Ensuring patients' sense of security i...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a deadly contagious disease and a serious global health problem. It is curable but due to its lengthy treatment process, a patient is likely to leave the treatment incomplete, leading to a more lethal, drug resistant form of dise...