BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization has projected that by 2030, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third-leading cause of mortality and the seventh-leading cause of morbidity worldwide. Acute exacerbations of chronic obstr...
Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
Feb 10, 2021
PURPOSE: To examine how robot-enabled focus on professional task engagement and robot-reduced nonprofessional task engagement are related to nurses' professional turnover intention.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Feb 2, 2021
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Accurately predicting the survival of patients with spinal metastases is important for guiding surgical intervention. The SORG machine-learning (ML) algorithm for the 90-day and one-year mortality of patients with metastatic cance...
International journal of medical informatics
Jan 28, 2021
PURPOSE: Blepharoptosis is a known cause of reversible vision loss. Accurate assessment can be difficult, especially amongst non-specialists. Existing automated techniques disrupt clinical workflow by requiring user input, or placement of reference m...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Dec 11, 2020
This study investigated the diagnostic accuracy of using an artificial neural network (ANN) for the prediction of metabolic syndrome (MetS) based on socioeconomic status and lifestyle factors. The data of 27,415 subjects who went through examinations...
BACKGROUND: As the COVID-19 epidemic increases in severity, the burden of quarantine stations outside emergency departments (EDs) at hospitals is increasing daily. To address the high screening workload at quarantine stations, all staff members with ...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Sep 23, 2020
This paper uses machine learning to refine a Land-use Regression (LUR) model and to estimate the spatial-temporal variation in BTEX concentrations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Using the Taiwanese Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data of BTEX (benzene, ...
Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine
Sep 11, 2020
BACKGROUND: A big-data-driven and artificial intelligence (AI) with machine learning (ML) approach has never been integrated with the hospital information system (HIS) for predicting major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patients with chest pain in ...
About nine months after the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, this special issue of the Biomedical Journal takes stock of its evolution into a pandemic. We acquire an elaborate overview of the history and virology of SARS-CoV-2, the epidemiology of COVID-19, ...
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Aug 22, 2020
Estimation of hazardous air pollutants in the urban environment for maintaining public safety is a significant concern to mankind. In this paper, we have developed an efficient air quality warning system based on a low-cost and robust ground-level oz...