Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA
Oct 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: Chronic diseases are the leading cause of disability and death in the United States. Clinical pharmacists have been shown to optimize health outcomes and reduce health care expenditures in patients with chronic diseases through improving ...
BACKGROUND: Machine learning algorithms are essential for predicting severe outcomes during public health crises like COVID-19. However, the dynamic nature of diseases requires continual evaluation and updating of these algorithms. This study aims to...
This tutorial, rooted in the context of livestock research, is designed to assist novice or non-programmers in visualizing trends in livestock exports between the US and Japan using Python and generative AI systems such as Microsoft's Copilot and Goo...
AIM: To utilise natural language processing (NLP) to analyse interviews about the impact of COVID-19 in underserved communities and to compare it to traditional thematic analysis in a small subset of interviews.
BACKGROUND: Although transcatheter aortic valve replacement has emerged as an alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement, it requires extensive healthcare resources, and optimal length of hospital stay has become increasingly important. This st...
Clinical orthopaedics and related research
Oct 2, 2024
BACKGROUND: Available codes in the ICD-10 do not accurately reflect soft tissue sarcoma diagnoses, and this can result in an underrepresentation of soft tissue sarcoma in databases. The National VA Database provides a unique opportunity for soft tiss...
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Sep 27, 2024
OBJECTIVES: Identifying skilled nursing facility (SNF) patients at risk for hospitalization or death is of interest to SNFs, patients, and patients' families because of quality measures, financial penalties, and limited clinical staffing. We aimed to...
INTRODUCTION: Increasing number of current cannabis users report using a vaporized form of cannabis and young adults are most likely to vape cannabis. However, the number of studies on cannabis vaping is limited, and predictors of cannabis vaping amo...
BACKGROUND: Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a growing public health crisis, with opioids involved in an overwhelming majority of drug overdose deaths in the United States in recent years. While medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) effectively redu...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Sep 26, 2024
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) has become an increasingly popular alternative to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, offering benefits such as motion preservation and reduced risk of adjacent segment disease. Despite its ad...
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