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Patient research priorities in melanoma: a national qualitative interview study.

The British journal of dermatology
BACKGROUND: Outcomes for advanced melanoma have improved following the advent of immunotherapy and targeted therapy. This heralds a need for reconsideration of future research agendas. Patients can - and are keen to - help identify and prioritize res...

Proteomic prediction of diverse incident diseases: a machine learning-guided biomarker discovery study using data from a prospective cohort study.

The Lancet. Digital health
BACKGROUND: Broad-capture proteomic technologies have the potential to improve disease prediction, enabling targeted prevention and management, but studies have so far been limited to very few selected diseases and have not evaluated predictive perfo...

Comparing natural language processing representations of coded disease sequences for prediction in electronic health records.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms are increasingly being applied to obtain unsupervised representations of electronic health record (EHR) data, but their comparative performance at predicting clinical endpoints remains unclear. ...

New and emerging technology for adult social care - the example of home sensors with artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Health and social care delivery research
BACKGROUND: Digital technology is a focus within the NHS and social care as a way to improve care and address pressures. Sensor-based technology with artificial intelligence capabilities is one type of technology that may be useful, although there ar...

Data-Adaptive Estimation for Double-Robust Methods in Population-Based Cancer Epidemiology: Risk Differences for Lung Cancer Mortality by Emergency Presentation.

American journal of epidemiology
In this paper, we propose a structural framework for population-based cancer epidemiology and evaluate the performance of double-robust estimators for a binary exposure in cancer mortality. We conduct numerical analyses to study the bias and efficien...

Infection prevention and control challenges of using a therapeutic robot.

Nursing older people
This work was part of a National Institute for Health Research participatory action research and practice development study, which focused on the use of a therapeutic, robotic baby seal (PARO, for personal assistive robot) in everyday practice in a s...