Ear molding therapy is a nonsurgical technique to correct certain congenital auricular deformities. While the advantages of nonsurgical treatments over otoplasty are well-described, few studies have assessed aesthetic outcomes. In this study, we comp...
BACKGROUND: Research on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into community-based primary health care (CBPHC) has highlighted several advantages and disadvantages in practice regarding, for example, facilitating diagnosis and disease manag...
Novel machine learning methods open the door to advances in rheumatology through application to complex, high-dimensional data, otherwise difficult to analyse. Results from such efforts could provide better classification of disease, decision support...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jun 11, 2021
BACKGROUND: Out of the pressure of Digital Transformation, the major industrial domains are using advanced and efficient digital technologies to implement processes that are applied on a daily basis. Unfortunately, this still does not happen in the s...
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...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jun 3, 2021
Patient satisfaction is a key performance indicator of patient-centered care and hospital reimbursement. To discover the major factors that affect patient experiences is considered as an effective way to formulate corrective actions. A patient during...
In sub-Saharan Africa, there is a significant unmet need for emergency care, with a shortage of trained providers. One model to increase the number of providers is to task-share: roles traditionally filled by clinicians are shared with lay workers wh...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
When healthcare providers review the results of a clinical trial study to understand its applicability to their practice, they typically analyze how well the characteristics of the study cohort correspond to those of the patients they see. We have pr...
The evolution of healthcare, together with the changing behaviour of healthcare professionals, means that medical affairs functions of pharmaceutical organisations are constantly reinventing themselves. The emergence of digital ways of working, exped...
International journal of health policy and management
Jan 2, 2021
This article addresses transparency in the current era of digital co-creation between healthcare professionals and patients. The concept of reasoned transparency is presented as a potential tool to guide the development of digital co-creation that is...