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An approach to make general practitioner referrals suitable for artificial intelligence deployment.

The New Zealand medical journal
Outpatient referrals for hospital specialist assessment are an increasing workload that carry significant risk if not attended to in a timely manner. This viewpoint discusses how decision support (including artificial intelligence and machine learnin...

A comparative assessment of AI and manual transcription quality in health data: insights from field observations.

The New Zealand medical journal
AIM: This study explores the semantic similarities between qualitative research transcripts produced by artificial intelligence (AI) and those transcribed manually, with a particular focus on challenges encountered when working with multicultural par...

Invasive meningococcal disease in adolescents in Europe and select geographies: Disease burden, unmet medical need, and optimizing prevention.

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is uncommon but serious; the case fatality rate is 8-15% and up to 20-40% of survivors experience disabling sequelae, with a substantial socioeconomic impact. Although incidence is highest in infants and young chi...

Development of Machine Learning-Based Risk Prediction Models to Predict Rapid Weight Gain in Infants: Analysis of Seven Cohorts.

JMIR public health and surveillance
BACKGROUND: Rapid weight gain (RWG) during infancy, defined as an upward crossing of one centile line on a weight growth chart, is highly predictive of subsequent obesity risk. Identification of infant RWG could facilitate obesity risk assessment fro...

Learning to care, caring to learn: the evolving nature of medical education.

The New Zealand medical journal
As Otago Medical School marks its 150th anniversary, this paper reflects on what it means to train doctors for both today and the decades ahead. It traces the school's evolution from its nineteenth-century foundations through key innovations in curri...

Modelling and mapping of subsurface nitrate-attenuation index in agricultural landscapes.

Journal of environmental management
Environmental management of nutrient losses from agricultural lands is required to reduce their potential impacts on the quality of groundwater and eutrophication of surface waters in agricultural landscapes. However, accurate accounting and manageme...

Towards determining clinical factors influencing critical structure identification using Artificial Intelligence.

HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association
BACKGROUND: Studys into factors influencing critical view of safety achievement depends on large volumes of video data and granular anatomical annotations, which are limited by the burden of inefficient manual work. Artificial intelligence (AI) has t...

Using machine learning to explore the efficacy of administrative variables in prediction of subjective-wellbeing outcomes in New Zealand.

Scientific reports
The growing acknowledgment of population wellbeing as a key indicator of societal prosperity has propelled governments worldwide to devise policies aimed at improving their citizens' overall wellbeing. In New Zealand, the General Social Survey provid...