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The Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme in the Basque Country: obtaining a good performance by means of professional collaboration

Isabel Portillo, Isabel Idigoras, Isabel Bilbao, Jose Luis Hurtado et al. • International Journal of Integrated Care (2019)

Introduction: The Basque Health Service approved the Colorectal Cancer (CRC) screening programme in 2008; targeted at residents (50 to 69 years old) estimated 598,201 by biennial faecal immunochemical test (FIT) and colonoscopy in positive ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5334/ijic.s3166

Key Variables for Effective eHealth Designs for Individuals With and Without Mental Health Disorders: 2^12-4 Fractional Factorial Experiment

Rotondi, Armando J, Grady, Jonathan, Hanusa, Barbara H, Haas, Gretchen L et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2021)

BackgroundeHealth applications not only offer the potential to increase service convenience and responsiveness but also expand the ability to tailor services to improve relevance, engagement, and use. To achieve these goals, it is critical ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/23137

Artificial neural network–based model for sleep quality prediction for frontline medical staff during major medical assistance

Qingquan Chen, Zeshun Chen, Xi Zhu, Jiajing Zhuang et al. • Digital Health (2024)

Background: The sleep quality of medical staff was severely affected during COVID-19, but the factors influencing the sleep quality of frontline staff involved in medical assistance remained unclear, and screening tools for their sleep qual...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076241287363

Digital quality gradient and the burden of elderly depression: A spatial multi kernel SVR analysis of socio economically vulnerable groups in England

Jin Rui, Yijing Li, Hector D. Menendez, Mariana Pinto da Costa • Digital Health (2026)

Digital infrastructure is increasingly understood as part of the contemporary built environment and as a policy-relevant area-level correlate of older adults’ mental health. Existing studies have often relied on linear models and have paid ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076261465140

Injury death certificates without specification of the circumstances leading to the fatal injury – the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry 2005–2014

Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Marta Ebbing, G. Cecilie Alfsen, Stein Emil Vollset • Population Health Metrics (2018)

Abstract Background For injury deaths, the underlying cause of death is defined as the circumstances leading to the injury. When this information is missing, the ICD-10 code X59 (Exposure to unspecified factor) is used. Lack of knowledge of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12963-018-0176-2

Behavioral dataset for Long-Evans and its schizophrenia-like substrain through several generations

Gábor Kőrösi, Oliver Czimbalmos, Gabriella Kekesi, Gyongyi Horvath • Scientific Data (2026)

Abstract We present a high-throughput behavioral dataset acquired with Ambitus, an automated reward-based corridor system that records locomotor and exploratory activities and cognitive functions after minimal handling. The collection conta...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41597-026-06735-0

Development and validation of an interpretable machine learning model for predicting the risk of coronary heart disease risk in diabetes mellitus patients: a dual-center retrospective study

Ye Kuang, Yan Yu, Jing Li, Chuanmei Peng et al. • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2026)

Abstract Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) combined with coronary heart disease (CHD) significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular events with a greater mortality rate. Therefore, establishing a predictive model can help DM patients r...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12911-026-03461-w

Functional neuroimaging of visuospatial working memory tasks enables accurate detection of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder

Rubi Hammer, Gillian E. Cooke, Mark A. Stein, James R. Booth • NeuroImage: Clinical (2015)

Finding neurobiological markers for neurodevelopmental disorders, such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is a major objective of clinicians and neuroscientists. We examined if functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMR...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.08.015

Adherence to Blended or Face-to-Face Smoking Cessation Treatment and Predictors of Adherence: Randomized Controlled Trial

Siemer, Lutz, Brusse-Keizer, Marjolein G J, Postel, Marloes G, Ben Allouch, Somaya et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2020)

BackgroundBlended face-to-face and web-based treatment is a promising way to deliver smoking cessation treatment. Since adherence has been shown to be an indicator of treatment acceptability and a determinant for effectiveness, we explored ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/17207

The influence of patient characteristics on the alarm rate in intensive care units: a retrospective cohort study

Zeena-Carola Sinno, Denys Shay, Jochen Kruppa, Sophie A.I. Klopfenstein et al. • Scientific Reports (2022)

Abstract Intensive care units (ICU) are often overflooded with alarms from monitoring devices which constitutes a hazard to both staff and patients. To date, the suggested solutions to excessive monitoring alarms have remained on a research...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26261-4

Subjective wellbeing and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Data from three population groups in Colombia

Lina Martínez, Isabella Valencia, Valeria Trofimoff • Data in Brief (2020)

This paper presents three data sets about the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and subjective wellbeing in Colombia for three population subgroups: adults (+18 years old), college students, and informal workers. The data w...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106287

Memantine for Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Protocol for a Pragmatic, Double-blind, Randomized, Parallel-Group, Placebo-Controlled, Monocenter Trial

Annalisa Maraone, Alessandro Trebbastoni, Antonella Di Vita, Fabrizia D'Antonio et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2023)

BackgroundObsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric syndrome characterized by unwanted and repetitive thoughts and repeated ritualistic compulsions for decreasing distress. Symptoms can cause severe distress and functional impair...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/39223

Predictors of community acquired childhood pneumonia among 2–59 months old children in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Muluken Genetu Chanie, Mequannent Sharew Melaku, Melaku Yalew, Mastewal Arefaynie et al. • BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2021)

Abstract Background Worldwide, pneumonia is the third leading cause of death in under 5 years children. Ethiopia is ranked 4th out of 15 countries having the highest burdens of the death rate among under-five children due to pneumonia. Rega...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12890-021-01548-w

Psychometric analysis of the questionnaires for the assessment of upper limbs available in their Italian version: a systematic review of the structural and psychometric characteristics

Luca Barni, María Ruiz-Muñoz, Manuel Gonzalez-Sanchez, Antonio I. Cuesta-Vargas et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2021)

Abstract Introduction There is no systematic review that analyzes the psychometric properties of questionnaires in Italian. Previous studies have analyzed the psychometric characteristics of instruments for the measurement of pathologies of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-021-01891-w

The relationship between informatics competency and clinical competency in nurses working in intensive care units: A Cross-sectional Study in Northeast Iran

Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Khadijeh Yazdi, Navisa Sadat Seyedghasemi, Shohreh Kolagari • Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery (2024)

Background: The use of information technology improves the competency of nurses at the bedside. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between informatics competency and clinical competency in nurses working in intensive car...

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Association between diabetes, hypertension, activities of daily living and physical activity among elderly users of primary healthcare facilities

Edson Zangiacomi Martinez, Anderson Soares da Silva, Laercio Joel Franco, Scarlet Feitosa Santos et al. • Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano (2019)

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to estimate the prevalence of self-reported hypertension and diabetes among elderly users of primary healthcare facilities in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, and to investigate the association between these...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1590/1980-0037.2019v21e55149

The Study Of Influence Of Human Resource Management (HRM) On Implementation Of Clinical Governance In Tehran University Of Medical Sciences Hospitals

Fatemeh Ghazanfari, Hossein Mobaraki • پیاورد سلامت (2014)

Background and Aim: Clinical governance is the application of mechanisms at the right time and place to do tasks for patients properly and obtain maximum clinical results. The implementation of clinical governance definitely requires the sk...

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