The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
May 2, 2025
BACKGROUND: The journey of >80% of patients diagnosed with lung cancer starts in general practice. About 75% of patients are diagnosed when it is at an advanced stage (3 or 4), leading to >80% mortality within 1 year at present. The long-term data in...
BACKGROUND: Exclusion of coronary stenosis in individuals with suggestive symptoms is challenging. Cardiac CT or coronary angiography is often used but is inefficient and costly and involves risks. Sex-stratified algorithms based on electronic health...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 26, 2025
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: When treating spinal metastases in a palliative setting, maintaining or enhancing quality of life (QoL) is the primary therapeutic objective. Clinicians tailor their treatment strategy by weighing the QoL benefits against expected...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Mar 7, 2025
BACKGROUND: Clinical machine learning research and artificial intelligence driven clinical decision support models rely on clinically accurate labels. Manually extracting these labels with the help of clinical specialists is often time-consuming and ...
World journal of emergency surgery : WJES
Dec 23, 2024
BACKGROUND: Acute abdominal pain (AAP) constitutes 5-10% of all emergency department (ED) visits, with appendicitis being a prevalent AAP etiology often necessitating surgical intervention. The variability in AAP symptoms and causes, combined with th...
Alternatives to laboratory animals : ATLA
Dec 18, 2024
The first ONTOX Hackathon of the EU Horizon 2020-funded ONTOX project was held on 21-23 April 2024 in Utrecht, The Netherlands (https://ontox-project.eu/hackathon/). This participatory event aimed to collectively advance innovation for human safety t...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: Blood transfusion (BT) is a critical aspect of medical care for surgical patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Timely and accurate identification of BT needs can enhance patient outcomes and healthcare resource management.
OBJECTIVES: Cardiac surgery is associated with perioperative complications, some of which might be attributable to hypotension. The Hypotension Prediction Index (HPI), a machine-learning-derived early warning tool for hypotension, has only been evalu...
Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning
Nov 16, 2024
BACKGROUND: Over the years, approaches of the pharmaceutical industry to discover and develop drugs have changed rapidly due to new scientific trends. Among others, they have started to explore Machine Learning (ML), a subset of Artificial Intelligen...
BACKGROUND: Diagnostic errors, often due to biases in clinical reasoning, significantly affect patient care. While artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT could help mitigate such biases, their potential susceptibility to biases is unknown.
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