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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

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

Jasper J.E. Moors, Zhibin Xu, Kunpeng Xie, Ashkan Rashad et al. • Systematic Reviews (2024)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13643-024-02471-x

The Comparability of Men Who Have Sex With Men Recruited From Venue-Time-Space Sampling and Facebook: A Cohort Study

Hernandez-Romieu, Alfonso C, Sullivan, Patrick S, Sanchez, Travis H, Kelley, Colleen F et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2014)

BackgroundRecruiting valid samples of men who have sex with men (MSM) is a key component of the US human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surveillance and of research studies seeking to improve HIV prevention for MSM. Social media, such as Face...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3342

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

SNPPhenA: a corpus for extracting ranked associations of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and phenotypes from literature

Behrouz Bokharaeian, Alberto Diaz, Nasrin Taghizadeh, Hamidreza Chitsaz et al. • Journal of Biomedical Semantics (2017)

Abstract Background Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are among the most important types of genetic variations influencing common diseases and phenotypes. Recently, some corpora and methods have been developed with the purpose of extra...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13326-017-0116-2

Comparative assessment of patient education content generated by five large language models on post-stroke complications: A cross-sectional study of safety, accuracy, reliability, readability, and empathy

Long-Xian Liu, Huan-Huan Wang, Shuang Lu, Guo Yu et al. • Digital Health (2026)

Objective To compare the safety, accuracy, reliability, readability, and empathy of patient education content generated by five large language models (LLMs) for post-stroke complications. Methods This CHART-guided cross-sectional comparativ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/20552076261493266

Methodology for the Positive Voices 2022 Survey of People With HIV Accessing Care in England, Wales, and Scotland: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study

Janey Sewell, Carole Kelly, Adamma Aghaizu, Hannah Kitt et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2025)

BackgroundDue to advances in treatment, HIV is now a chronic condition with near-normal life expectancy. However, people with HIV continue to have a higher burden of mental and physical health conditions and are impacted by wider socioecono...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/58531

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) for Interoperability in Health Research: Systematic Review

Carina Nina Vorisek, Moritz Lehne, Sophie Anne Ines Klopfenstein, Paula Josephine Mayer et al. • JMIR Medical Informatics (2022)

BackgroundThe standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is widely used in health information technology. However, its use as a standard for health research is still less prevalent. To use existing data sources more efficien...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/35724

EPEPT: A web service for enhanced P-value estimation in permutation tests

Knijnenburg Theo A, Lin Jake, Rovira Hector, Boyle John et al. • BMC Bioinformatics (2011)

Abstract Background In computational biology, permutation tests have become a widely used tool to assess the statistical significance of an event under investigation. However, the common way of computing the P-value, which expresses the sta...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-411

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

Electronic Cigarette Use Is Not Associated with COVID-19 Diagnosis

Thulasee Jose, Ivana T. Croghan, J. Taylor Hays, Darrell R. Schroeder et al. • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (2021)

This analysis tested the hypothesis that current e-cigarette use was associated with an increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients seeking medical care. E-cigarette and conventional cigarette use were ascertained using a novel elect...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/21501327211024391

Comparison of the effectiveness of an oral combination of thiamine, pyridoxine, and cyanocobalamin with parenteral cyanocobalamin in adolescents with nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency

Ömer Güneş, Mehmet Ağıllı, Fatih Üçkardeş, Yüksel Hakan Aydoğmuş et al. • Gülhane Tıp Dergisi (2024)

Aims: Nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency remains a significant public health issue. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of an oral combination of thiamine, pyridoxine, cyanocobalamin, and parenteral cyanocobalamin treatment among adole...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4274/gulhane.galenos.2024.47135

The effect of structured medication review followed by face-to-face feedback to prescribers on adverse drug events recognition and prevention in older inpatients – a multicenter interrupted time series study

Joanna E. Klopotowska, Paul F. M. Kuks, Peter C. Wierenga, Clementine C. M. Stuijt et al. • BMC Geriatrics (2022)

Abstract Background The effectiveness of interventions to improve medication safety in older inpatients is unclear, given a paucity of properly designed intervention studies applying clinically relevant endpoints such as hospital-acquired p...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-022-03118-z

Optimal@NRW: optimized acute care of nursing home residents using an intersectoral telemedical cooperation network — study protocol for a stepped-wedge trial

David Brücken, Jenny Unterkofler, Sophie Pauge, Jonas Bienzeisler et al. • Trials (2022)

Abstract Background Increasing life expectancy is associated with a growing number of people living in nursing homes, while the availability of outpatient medical care, especially from family doctors, is stagnating in this sector. Consequen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06613-1

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

Melike Pekmezci, Sanem Pinar Uysal, Yelda Orhan, Tarik Tihan et al. • Journal of Pathology Informatics (2016)

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 ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/2153-3539.181769

Association of androgen receptor and tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes with bone recurrence in triple-negative breast cancer

Petra Ilenič, Ajda Herman, Erik Langerholc, Barbara Gazić et al. • Journal of Bone Oncology (2024)

Background: As compared to endocrine responsive breast cancer bone is less frequent site of distant recurrence in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). A biomarker which predicts bone recurrence would allow a more personalized treatment app...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jbo.2023.100518

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

Monika Ludlova, Kateřina Koudelková, Jitka Pallova, Barbora Koudelkova et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2025)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/67570

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Kessler Scale of Psychological Distress to a traumatic brain injury population in Swahili and the Tanzanian Setting

Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Silvia Daniela Vaca, Deena El-Gabri, Leonardo Pestillo de Oliveira et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2018)

Abstract Background To evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale in an injury population in Tanzania. Methods Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale was develo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-018-0973-0