Journal of substance use and addiction treatment
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BACKGROUND: Despite effective treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD), relapse and treatment drop-out diminish their efficacy, increasing the risks of adverse outcomes, including death. Predicting important outcomes, including non-prescribed opioid ...
BACKGROUND: Low birth weight (LBW) is a critical factor linked to neonatal morbidity and mortality. Early prediction is essential for timely interventions. This study aimed to develop and evaluate predictive models for LBW using machine learning algo...
BACKGROUND: Depression has a detrimental effect on an individual's mental and musculoskeletal strength multiplying the risk of fall incidents. The current study aims to investigate the association between depression and falls in older adults using ma...
Precision medicine requires accurate identification of clinically relevant patient subgroups. Electronic health records provide major opportunities for leveraging machine learning approaches to uncover novel patient subgroups. However, many existing ...
OBJECTIVE: The prevalence of mental illness in Taiwan increased. Identifying and mitigating risk factors for mental illness is essential. Inflammation may be a risk factor for mental illness; however, the predictive power of inflammation test values ...
The association between chronic lung diseases (CLDs) and the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has been extensively recognized. Nevertheless, conventional approaches for CVD risk evaluation cannot fully capture the risk factors (RFs) related to ...
BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia is an age-related progressive skeletal muscle disease that leads to loss of muscle mass and function, resulting in adverse health outcomes such as falls, functional decline, and death. Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common chro...
This study utilized data from the 2020 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study database, selecting 4322 participants aged 60 and above as the study sample. Important predictors of depression in older adults with functional disabili...
Large language models have shown efficacy across multiple medical tasks. However, their value in the assessment of longitudinal follow-up computed tomography (CT) images of patients with lung nodules is unclear. In this study, we evaluate the ability...