BACKGROUND: The triage of patients in prehospital care is a difficult task, and improved risk assessment tools are needed both at the dispatch center and on the ambulance to differentiate between low- and high-risk patients. This study validates a ma...
OBJECTIVES: This research is part of an international project to design and test a home-based healthcare robot to help older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia. The aim was to investigate the perceived usefulness of differe...
BACKGROUND: Nonadherence to smoking cessation medication is a frequent problem. Identifying pre-quit predictors of nonadherence may help explain nonadherence and suggest tailored interventions to address it.
OBJECTIVES: Patients in oncological and palliative care (PC) often have complex needs, which require a comprehensive treatment approach. The assessment of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) has been shown to improve identification of patient needs and ...
BACKGROUND: Previous models on prediction of shock mostly focused on septic shock and often required laboratory results in their models. The purpose of this study was to use deep learning approaches to predict vasopressor requirement for critically i...
BACKGROUND: Critical care research in Canada is conducted primarily in academically-affiliated intensive care units with established research infrastructure, including research coordinators (RCs). Recently, efforts have been made to engage community ...
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Artificial intelligence (AI) holds enormous potential for improvements in patient care, efficiency, and innovation in pediatric radiology practice. Although there is a pressing need for a radiology-specific training curricul...
BACKGROUND: As the information age wanes, enabling the prevalence of the artificial intelligence age; expectations, responsibilities, and job definitions need to be redefined for those who provide services in healthcare. This study examined the perce...
User-oriented needs assessment of the potential use of assistive robots in direct nursing care: A mixed methods study So far, hardly any robots have been used in nursing that take over patient-related activities and thereby reduce the physical stra...