International journal of medical informatics
Mar 22, 2025
BACKGROUND: Hip fractures are associated with reduced mobility, and higher morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Approximately 90% of hip fractures in the elderly are associated with osteoporosis, making it particularly important to screen the ...
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 21, 2025
BACKGROUND: Logistic regression (LR) has traditionally been the standard method used for predicting binary health outcomes; however, machine learning (ML) methods are increasingly popular.
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 13, 2025
BACKGROUND: Access to patient-centered health information is essential for informed decision-making. However, online medical resources vary in quality and often fail to accommodate differing degrees of health literacy. This issue is particularly evid...
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 12, 2025
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a major global health issue, with approximately 700,000 deaths annually (WHO). In psychiatric wards, managing harmful behaviors such as suicide, self-harm, and aggression is essential to ensure patient and staff safety. However...
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 9, 2025
BACKGROUND: Timely and accurate outcome prediction is essential for clinical decision-making for ischemic stroke patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, the interpretation and translation of predictive models into clinical applications ar...
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 8, 2025
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis and treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) induces psychological variables and treatment-related toxicity in patients. The evaluation of outcomes is warranted for effective treatment planning and improved dis...
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 8, 2025
BACKGROUND: The secondary use of health data for training Artificial Intelligence (AI) models holds immense potential for advancing medical research and healthcare delivery. However, ensuring patient consent for such utilization is paramount to uphol...
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 8, 2025
BACKGROUND: Machine learning (ML) models have been constructed to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality in patients with myocardial infarction (MI). Due to diverse ML models and modeling variables, along with the significant imbalance in data, th...
International journal of medical informatics
Mar 1, 2025
AIMS: Several Artificial Intelligence (AI) based predictive tools have been developed to predict non-adherence among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Hence, this study aimed to describe and evaluate the methodological quality of AI based predicti...
International journal of medical informatics
Feb 23, 2025
Net benefit is the most widely used metric for evaluating the clinical utility of medical prediction models. The approach applies decision analytic theory to weight true and false positives depending on the relative consequences of different decision...