INTRODUCTION: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia worldwide affecting an estimated 5% of people over the age of 65 and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure. Identification of patients at risk allows preventative measures ...
BACKGROUND: Accurate shade matching in dentistry is crucial for achieving aesthetic outcomes, with increasing patient expectations driving advancements in shade selection technologies. Color perception is influenced by multiple factors such as incide...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Oct 29, 2025
BACKGROUND: In clinical research, there is a strong drive to leverage big data from population cohort studies and routine electronic healthcare records to design new interventions, improve health outcomes and increase the efficiency of healthcare del...
INTRODUCTION: Community health workers (CHWs) are critical to healthcare delivery in low-resource settings but often lack formal clinical training, limiting their decision-making. Large language models (LLMs) could provide real-time, context-specific...
INTRODUCTION: Dental caries is the most common oral disease worldwide, affecting up to 90% of children globally. It can lead to pain, infection and impaired quality of life. Early prevention is a key strategy for reducing the prevalence of dental car...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Sep 17, 2025
The use of AI, or more generally data-driven algorithms, has become ubiquitous in today's society. Yet, in many cases and especially when stakes are high, humans still make final decisions. The critical question, therefore, is whether AI helps humans...
INTRODUCTION: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains one of the most commonly performed cardiac surgeries worldwide. Despite surgical advancements, a significant proportion of patients experience psychological distress following surgery, with...
INTRODUCTION: Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) requires long-term surveillance to detect and treat postoperative complications. However, prediction models to optimise follow-up strategies are still lacking. The primary objective of this stu...
INTRODUCTION: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) serves as a first-line treatment for internalising disorders (ID), encompassing depressive, anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders. Nonetheless, a substantial proportion of patients do not experien...
Accurate mapping of complex health data to the OMOP CDM while preserving clinical nuance remains a challenge. We introduce Jackalope Plus, a novel tool leveraging SNOMED CT post-coordination and a GPT-4o mini LLM, to significantly enhance the precisi...
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