Academic Articles & Research Papers

Health Technology Assessment

This article describes health technology assessment (HTA) as an evaluation tool that applies systematic methods of inquiry to the generation and use of health technologies and new products. The focus of this article is on the contributions ...

Spanish recommendations on economic evaluation of health technologies

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

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 ...

Health technology assessment

Health technology assessment (HTA) involves the systematic evaluation of healthcare technologies and the dissemination of assessment findings. Its main purpose is to provide objective information to support healthcare decisions and policy-m...

Health technology and health technology assessment

In addition to the doctor, technology is an essential aspect of healthcare. In many parts of the world, a visit to the doctor does not feel complete without a prescription for a drug. Advanced laboratory and imaging technology is indispensa...

Mobile Health Technology Evaluation

Full-thickness skin graft versus split-thickness skin graft for radial forearm free flap donor site closure: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background The radial forearm free flap (RFFF) serves as a workhorse for a variety of reconstructions. Although there are a variety of surgical techniques for donor site closure after RFFF raising, the most common techniques are cl...

Mapping Chinese Medical Entities to the Unified Medical Language System

Background. Chinese medical entities have not been organized comprehensively due to the lack of well-developed terminology systems, which poses a challenge to processing Chinese medical texts for fine-grained medical knowledge representatio...

Assessing Acceptance and Intention to Use of Home Telemonitoring Among Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Development and Initial Psychometric Validation of a TAM-Based Questionnaire

Background/Objectives: Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality requiring continuous monitoring and early recognition of clinical deterioration. Home telemonitoring is increasingly considered a supportive strategy fo...

Reducing Alert Fatigue by Sharing Low-Level Alerts With Patients and Enhancing Collaborative Decision Making Using Blockchain Technology: Scoping Review and Proposed Framework (MedAlert)

BackgroundClinical decision support (CDS) is a tool that helps clinicians in decision making by generating clinical alerts to supplement their previous knowledge and experience. However, CDS generates a high volume of irrelevant alerts, res...

Machine learning framework for early identification of high-spending Crohn’s disease patients using administrative claims

Objectives To develop and evaluate a machine learning (ML) model that predicts Crohn’s disease (CD) patients responsible for the top quartile of healthcare spending.Methods De-identified commercial claims (2016–2018) from ~267 000 continuou...

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...

Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature

BackgroundSocial media has been extensively used for the communication of health-related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation. Conventional systematic reviews have been published on this topic to ...

Evaluation of pragmatic oxygenation measurement as a proxy for Covid-19 severity

Abstract Choosing optimal outcome measures maximizes statistical power, accelerates discovery and improves reliability in early-phase trials. We devised and evaluated a modification to a pragmatic measure of oxygenation function, the $$S/F$...

Real-World Evaluation of AI-Driven Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Public Health Settings: Validation and Implementation Study

Abstract BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) algorithms offer an effective solution to alleviate the burden of diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening in public health settings. However, there are challenges in translating diagno...

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 ...

Pitfalls in the use of whole slide imaging for the diagnosis of central nervous system tumors: A pilot study in surgical neuropathology

Background: Whole slide imaging (WSI) finds increasingly higher value in everyday surgical pathology in addition to its well-established use for educational and research purposes. However, its diagnostic utility, especially in subspecialty ...

The Role of iSchools in Medical Informatics

Similar to iSchools, healthcare is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses heterogeneous environments (e.g., hospitals, clinics, home) and perspectives. However, medical informatics research focuses mainly on technical solutions to narr...

Evaluation: salvation or nemesis of medical informatics?

Classroom Management Strategies of Multigrade Schools with Emphasis on the Role of Technology

Introduction : It appears that the effectiveness of a multigrade school class is dependent on the type of class management. Therefore this study aims to determine the classroom management strategies in multigrade schools with emphasis on th...