BACKGROUND: Radiation dermatitis (RD) is a significant side effect of radiotherapy experienced by breast cancer patients. Severe symptoms include desquamation or ulceration of irradiated skin, which impacts quality of life and increases healthcare co...
AIMS: Adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery can reduce pain and disability. However, the actual surgical efficacy of ASD in doing so is far from desirable, with frequent complications and limited improvement in quality of life. The accurate prediction...
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported experience surveys allow administrators, clinicians, and researchers to quantify and improve health care by receiving feedback directly from patients. Existing research has focused primarily on quantitative analysis of su...
Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a vital role in achieving a shift towards predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine, provided we are guided by the science with and of patient input. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) represent a ...
BACKGROUND: Attention to the collection of patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) associated with total hip arthroplasty (THA) is growing. The aim of this study was to preoperatively predict failure to achieve the minimal clinically important dif...
PURPOSE: Despite the high incidence of perioperative complications following cystectomy, there is a lack of evidence regarding patients' perceptions. Moreover, discrepancies between established complication grading systems and the patient's perspecti...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Feb 7, 2025
BACKGROUND: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has proven to be a valuable noninvasive tool to evaluate graft integrity after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. However, MRI protocols and interpretation methodologies are quite diverse, pr...
BACKGROUND: Since 2023, ChatGPT-4 has been impactful across several sectors including healthcare, where it aids in medical information analysis and education. Electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) play a crucial role in monitoring cancer patie...
INTRODUCTION: The lung cancer continues to be the primary cause of cancer-related deaths, despite significant advancements in treatment through the introduction of immunological checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). These inhibitors, initially used as monothe...
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