BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic caused many changes in primary health care systems in Europe. The fast adoption of telemedicine, the shift of health care resources to COVID-19-related tasks, and the tendency of patients to cancel their nonurgent ap...
BACKGROUND: The internet and social media have been considered useful platforms for obtaining health information. However, critical and erroneous content about vaccines on social media has been associated with vaccination delays and refusal.
Population movements constitute a significant driver of cultural change in prehistoric societies. In recent years, sulfur isotopes have emerged as a valuable approach for distinguishing human/animal provenance. However, the scarcity of sulfur isotope...
Crop models simulate crop growth and development according to different climatic, soil and crop management conditions. The CSM-CERES-Maize model (DSSAT) was adapted to simulate forage maize yields by calibrating the genetic parameters of six cultivar...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Aug 11, 2025
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), particularly Vascular Catheter-Associated Infections (VCAIs), are a significant concern, accounting for over 7% of all infections and are often linked to medical devices. Early detection of VCAIs before invasi...
The numbers of robots in organizations grow at an increasing rate. However, very little is known about how robotization (i.e., the implementation of robots at work) affects the work characteristics of the jobs it impacts. This qualitative study focus...
BACKGROUND: Depression is a mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Although common, it remains difficult to diagnose due to its heterogeneous symptomatology. Mental health questionnaires are currently the most used assessm...
BACKGROUND: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a major clinical manifestation of cardiac amyloidosis, a condition frequently underdiagnosed due to its nonspecific symptomatology. Electronic health records (EHRs) offer a promisi...
BACKGROUND: One of the main challenges with COVID-19 has been that although there are known factors associated with a worse prognosis, clinicians have been unable to predict which patients, with similar risk factors, will die or require intensive car...
Air pollution remains a critical public health and environmental challenge, particularly in urban areas where traffic emissions and meteorological conditions strongly influence air quality. While Machine Learning (ML) techniques have been increasingl...
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