Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
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OBJECTIVE: To understand the perspectives of primary care clinicians and health system leaders on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to derive information about patients' social determinants of health.
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) holds significant promise for enhancing the efficiency and safety of medical history-taking and triage within primary care. However, there remains a dearth of knowledge concerning the practical implementation ...
PURPOSE: Information about social determinants of health (SDOH) is essential for primary care clinicians in the delivery of equitable, comprehensive care, as well as for program planning and resource allocation. SDOH are rarely captured consistently ...
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is highly correlated with heart failure, stroke and death. Screening increases AF detection and facilitates the early adoption of comprehensive intervention. Long-term wearable devices have become increasingly pop...
Generative artificial intelligence and large language models are the continuation of a technological revolution in information processing that began with the invention of the transistor in 1947. These technologies, driven by transformer architectures...
BACKGROUND: Chatbots can provide immediate assistance tailored to patients' needs, making them suitable for sustained accompanying interventions. Nevertheless, there is currently no evidence regarding their acceptability by hypertensive patients and ...
Established life course approaches suggest that health status in adulthood can be influenced by events that occurred during the prenatal developmental period. Yet, interventions such as diet and lifestyle changes performed during pregnancy have had a...
INTRODUCTION: Rapid identification of individuals developing a psychotic spectrum disorder (PSD) is crucial because untreated psychosis is associated with poor outcomes and decreased treatment response. Lack of recognition of early psychotic symptoms...