Academic Articles & Research Papers

Remote Consultations in England During COVID-19: Challenges in Data Quality, Linkage, and Research Validity

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of remote consultations across health care, requiring rapid adjustments in service delivery. Consequently, there is an urgent need to understand the impact of remote consultations on he...

Examining the characteristic features of lipedema and the usefulness of BMI and WHtR in clinical evaluation

Abstract Background Lipedema is an adipose tissue disorder involving mostly women. One of the most characteristic lipedema symptoms is painful accumulation of adipose tissue in lower and upper extremities leading to disproportion. Due to th...

G-Aligner: a graph-based feature alignment method for untargeted LC–MS-based metabolomics

Abstract Background Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry is widely used in untargeted metabolomics for composition profiling. In multi-run analysis scenarios, features of each run are aligned into consensus features by feature alignment ...

Metabolic Flexibility to Predict Lifestyle Interventions Outcomes (MEPHISTO): Protocol for Predictive Validation Study and Randomized Controlled Trial

BackgroundWeight loss is a cornerstone of obesity treatment and diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2D) prevention, but its implementation in clinical practice is limited by its perceived burden and variability in response. Personalizing interventio...

Dataset for the dimethyl sulfoxide as a novel thermodynamic inhibitor of carbon dioxide hydrate formation

The temperatures and pressures of the three-phase equilibrium V-Lw-H (gas – aqueous solution – gas hydrate) were measured in the CO2 – H2O – dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) system at concentrations of organic solute in the aqueous phase up to 50 ...

Uncertainty and Decisions in Medical Informatics

This paper presents a tutorial introduction to the handling of uncertainty and decision-making in medical reasoning systems. It focuses on the central role of uncertainty in all of medicine and identifies the major themes that arise in rese...

Integrating machine learning algorithms and explainable artificial intelligence approach for predicting patient unpunctuality in psychiatric clinics

This study addresses patient unpunctuality, a major concern affecting patient waiting time, resource utilization, and quality of care. We develop and compare four machine learning models, including multinomial logistic regression, decision ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Data on higher education

The data presented in this article are based on provides a systematic and organized review of 219 studies regarding using of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education from 2012 to 2017. Consequently, the extant, peer-reviewed ...

Lifestyle Change Interventions for Children and Adolescents With Diabetes or Kidney Disease

The purpose of this research letter is to report on the availability of evidence-based interventions for promoting lifestyle change in children and adolescents with diabetes or kidney disease. References for this review were obtained using ...

Health-related quality of life in Chinese population with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a national multicenter survey

Abstract Background Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) is a multi-dimensional construct that can comprehensively evaluate the patient’s health status, including physical, emotional, mental and social well-being. In this study, we aimed t...

Medical informatics research trend analysis: A text mining approach

The objective of this research is to identify major subject areas of medical informatics and explore the time-variant changes therein. As such it can inform the field about where medical informatics research has been and where it is heading...

Medical informatics and information

Medical informatics has now been in existence for approximately 40 years, and it has been rapidly growing in the last decade. Despite major advantages in the science and technology of health care, it seems that the medical informatics disci...

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

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...

Medical informatics: reasoning methods

Publisher Correction: Endophenotype effect sizes support variant pathogenicity in monogenic disease susceptibility genes

Knowledge, Attitude, and Perceived Risks Towards COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impact of Risk Communication Messages on Healthcare Workers in Saudi Arabia

Abdulaziz Mushi,1 Yara Yassin,1 Anas Khan,1,2 Saber Yezli,1 Yasir Almuzaini1 1The Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud Univer...

START Triage Scale in Disasters

Disasters are events that occur since the beginning of time. When previous records are investigated, information on various types of disasters occurred in different parts of the World are encountered. Disasters occur unexpectedly and requir...

Conceptualisation and design of a protocol for a novel social drivers and primary care screening tool in paediatric orthopaedics: a quality improvement initiative

Introduction Paediatric patients with elevated healthcare needs have limited access to care, contributing to insufficient preventive services. Social drivers of health (SDOH), such as inadequate nutrition and poor community support, contrib...

Association of maternal metabolic risk factors with offspring body mass index (BMI) trajectories in early childhood: a retrospective cohort study

Objective This study aimed to identify body mass index (BMI) growth trajectories from birth to 24 months of age and examine the independent and additive effects of four maternal metabolic risk factors, namely prepregnancy BMI, the rate of g...

Prevalence of fear of hypoglycemia in adults with type 1 diabetes using a newly developed screener and clinician’s perspective on its implementation

Introduction Fear of hypoglycemia (FoH) affects quality of life, emotional well-being, and diabetes management among people with type 1 diabetes (PwT1D). American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) guidelines recommend assessing FoH in clinical p...