Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Aug 22, 2024
OBJECTIVES: Personal Assistive RObot (PARO) interventions have been used to treat agitation and mood symptoms of dementia effectively. However, the effects of a PARO intervention on physiological and cognitive function are unclear. To examine the eff...
A critical problem that Emergency Departments (EDs) must address is overcrowding, as it causes extended waiting times and increased patient dissatisfaction, both of which are immediately linked to a greater number of patients who leave the ED early, ...
BACKGROUND: There is a broad interest in deploying deep learning-based classification algorithms to identify individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) from healthy controls (HC) based on neuroimaging data, such as T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imagi...
Sarcopenia has been recognized as a determining factor in surgical outcomes and is associated with an increased risk of postoperative complications and readmission. Diagnosis is currently based on clinical guidelines, which includes assessment of sk...
International journal of medical informatics
Aug 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: Frailty is an age-related syndrome characterized by loss of strength and exhaustion and associated with multi-morbidity. Early detection and prediction of the appearance of frailty could help older people age better and prevent them from ...
BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy enhances survival rates for pancreatic cancer (PC) patients postsurgery, yet less than 60% complete adjuvant therapy, with a smaller fraction undergoing neoadjuvant treatment. Our study aimed to predict which patients would c...
INTRODUCTION: Heart failure (HF) may induce bowel hypoperfusion, leading to hypoxia of the villa of the bowel wall and the occurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). However, the risk factors for the development of CDI in HF patients hav...
Accurate and scalable quantification of amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology is crucial for deeper disease phenotyping and furthering research in Alzheimer Disease (AD). This multidisciplinary study addresses the current limitations on neuropathology by leveragi...
Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery
Aug 16, 2024
BACKGROUND: Reduced bone density is recognized as a predictor for potential complications in reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA). While humeral and glenoid planning based on preoperative computed tomography (CT) scans assist in implant selection and ...