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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

Effects of environmentally relevant ibuprofen and valproic acid exposure on zebrafish behavior

Ionuț-Alexandru Chelaru, Ramona-Alexandra Ciausu, Alexandra Savuca, Camelia Ureche et al. • Biomolecules & Biomedicine (2026)

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are increasingly entering aquatic environments due to human and veterinary use, wastewater discharges, and inadequate waste containment, raising significant concerns for both ecosystems and human hea...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17305/bb.2026.14030 PMC: PMC13667952

Exploring the determinants of patients’ continuance intentions in online health communities from the network effects perspective

Aihui Ye, Runtong Zhang, Hongmei Zhao • Health Informatics Journal (2024)

Objectives: Online health communities (OHCs) facilitate patient-physician interaction and the adoption of online health services. However, few studies explored the impact of network effects on patients’ continuance intentions in OHCs. This ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/14604582241300422

Patient-reported treatment outcomes and safety of direct-to-consumer teledermatology for finasteride treatment in male androgenetic alopecia: A cross-sectional study

Johannes von Büren, Inga Hansen, Julian Kött, Florian Schröder et al. • Digital Health (2023)

Objective The use of direct-to-consumer (DTC) teledermatology platforms has increased, particularly for androgenetic alopecia (AGA). However, little is known about the efficacy and safety of these platforms. This study aimed to investigate ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076231205740

Medical informatics

Chamidu Atupelage, Ruwan D. Ranaweera, Mohan Jayathilake, Roshan Yapa et al. • International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (2013)

During last few decades, medical experts have collaborate with the engineers to develop advanced techniques and tools for improving the significances of medical diagnosing techniques. Especially, with the development of high-resolution imag...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/icter.2013.6761203

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

Neural substrates of motor and cognitive dysfunctions in SCA2 patients: A network based statistics analysis

G. Olivito, M. Cercignani, M. Lupo, C. Iacobacci et al. • NeuroImage: Clinical (2017)

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive cerebellar syndrome, which can be isolated or associated with extracerebellar signs. It has been shown that patients affe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.03.009

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ)

Understanding Public Perceptions of Lung Cancer in China: Infodemiology Study of Baidu Index and Weibo Posts

Zongyuan Li, Jian Zhang, Yiming Fan, Nan Chen et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2026)

Abstract BackgroundIn China, lung cancer remains a major public health concern and accounts for a substantial proportion of cancer-related deaths nationwide. However, limited research has examined public perceptions of lung canc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/85058

Prenatal to postnatal trajectory of brain growth in complex congenital heart disease

Cynthia M. Ortinau, Kathryn Mangin-Heimos, Joseph Moen, Dimitrios Alexopoulos et al. • NeuroImage: Clinical (2018)

Altered brain development is a common feature of the neurological sequelae of complex congenital heart disease (CHD). These alterations include abnormalities in brain size and growth that begin prenatally and persist postnatally. However, t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.09.029

Empowering Health Care Actors to Contribute to the Implementation of Health Data Integration Platforms: Retrospective of the medEmotion Project

Marcel Parciak, Noëlla Pierlet, Liesbet M Peeters • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2025)

Health data integration platforms are vital to drive collaborative, interdisciplinary medical research projects. Developing such a platform requires input from different stakeholders. Managing these stakeholders and steering platform develo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/68083

Characterization data on the topical carrier DDC642

Eline Desmet, Stefanie Bracke, Katrien Forier, Lien Taevernier et al. • Data in Brief (2016)

This article contains original data, figures and methods used in the characterization of the liposomal carrier ‘DDC642’ for topical applications, described in “An elastic liposomal formulation for RNAi-based topical treatment of skin disord...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.03.091

ANAT 2.0: reconstructing functional protein subnetworks

Yomtov Almozlino, Nir Atias, Dana Silverbush, Roded Sharan • BMC Bioinformatics (2017)

Abstract Background ANAT is a graphical, Cytoscape-based tool for the inference of protein networks that underlie a process of interest. The ANAT tool allows the user to perform network reconstruction under several scenarios in a number of ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1932-1

Patient-reported outcomes and measures for vaginal relaxation syndrome management: a systematic review

Hongqin Chen, Jian Meng, Qiao Li, Xin Luo et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2025)

Abstract Background The heterogeneity of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in published clinical studies on vaginal relaxation syndrome (VRS) hinders cross-study comparisons and integration of ev...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-025-02432-5

Prediction of the Leaf Primordia of Potato Tubers Using Sensor Fusion and Wavelength Selection

Ahmed Rady, Daniel Guyer, William Kirk, Irwin R Donis-González • Journal of Imaging (2019)

The sprouting of potato tubers during storage is a significant problem that suppresses obtaining high quality seeds or fried products. In this study, the potential of fusing data obtained from visible (VIS)/near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/jimaging5010010

NeuroDiag: Software for Automated Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease Using Handwriting

Quoc Cuong Ngo, Nicole McConnell, Mohammod Abdul Motin, Barbara Polus et al. • IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (2024)

Objective: A change in handwriting is an early sign of Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, significant inter-person differences in handwriting make it difficult to identify pathological handwriting, especially in the early stages. Thi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/JTEHM.2024.3355432

Sources of Information and Behavioral Patterns in Online Health Forums: Observational Study

Sudau, Fabian, Friede, Tim, Grabowski, Jens, Koschack, Janka et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2014)

BackgroundIncreasing numbers of patients are raising their voice in online forums. This shift is welcome as an act of patient autonomy, reflected in the term “expert patient”. At the same time, there is considerable concern that patients ca...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2875

German Medical Informatics Initiative

Sebastian Claudius Semler, Frank Wissing, Ralf Heyder • Methods of Information in Medicine (2018)

This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on the German Medical Informatics Initiative. The Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) was launched within the scope of the German Federal Ministry of Education a...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.3414/me18-03-0003 PMC: 6178199

Electronic symptom monitoring of patient-reported outcomes among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma during immunotherapy (PRIME-HCC): protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Yanshang Wang, Xiaoping Wei • BMJ Open (2026)

Introduction Electronic patient-reported outcome (ePROs)-based symptom monitoring benefits health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in various cancers. However, despite the high disease and economic burden of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-116199