Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
Dec 1, 2014
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) on the performance of probabilistic neural network (PNN), naïve Bayes (NB), and decision tree (DT) classifiers for predicting diabetes in a prospective cohort ...
A commonly used method for evaluating a hospital's performance on an outcome is to compare the hospital's observed outcome rate to the hospital's expected outcome rate given its patient (case) mix and service. The process of calculating the hospital'...
Preterm birth and very low birthweight (VP/VLBW) are associated with poorer health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes extending into adulthood, yet it remains unclear how these effects differ across sociodemographic subgroups. This study aimed ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally and is expected to become the top global cause of death by 2030. Although the role of social determinants of health (SDoH) in CVD outcomes is well-established, integrating these fact...
Traffic crashes result from complex interactions between driver, roadway, and environmental factors, which traditional methods often fail to capture. This paper investigates the influence of road, weather, and socioeconomic factors on traffic crashes...
This study undertakes a comprehensive investigation into the impact of socioeconomic factors on the ecological footprint (EFP) in Turkey. It employs robust econometric methods and advanced Machine Learning (ML) models. The study employs Generalized L...
Accurate forecasting of ground-level ozone (O) is essential for assessing its public health and socioeconomic impacts. This study evaluates the performance of three deep learning models-Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (Deep-CNN), Long Short-Term M...
OBJECTIVE: We estimated the prevalence of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in small areas of the city of Belo Horizonte and analyzed inequities across areas and between two time periods, 2009-2013 and 2014-2018.
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Pancreatic cancer is a devasting disease which is an increasing cause of cancer mortality. The aim of this study was to characterise, using descriptive statistics, the sociodemographic, risk and clinical characteristics of who develops pancreatic can...
Health literacy is essential for promoting well-being and the ability to make informed decisions. We investigated the level of health literacy in Brazil and identified the predictive factors that influence it. Our data contribute to the international...
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