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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

Medical, dental, and nursing students’ attitudes and knowledge towards artificial intelligence: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Hamidreza Amiri, Samira Peiravi, Seyedeh sara rezazadeh shojaee, Motahareh Rouhparvarzamin et al. • BMC Medical Education (2024)

Abstract Background Nowadays, Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most popular topics that can be integrated into healthcare activities. Currently, AI is used in specialized fields such as radiology, pathology, and ophthalmology. Des...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05406-1

Reflections Towards the Future of Medical Informatics

Reinhold Haux • Yearbook of Medical Informatics (2023)

OBJECTIVE: To provide guidance on the future development and role of medical informatics, or biomedical and health informatics, in form of reflections. METHOD: To report on the author's previous activities as a medical informatician, which ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1768716 PMC: 10751126

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

A pairwise residue contact area-based mean force potential for discrimination of native protein structure

Pezeshk Hamid, Eslahchi Changiz, Sadeghi Mehdi, Arab Shahriar et al. • BMC Bioinformatics (2010)

Abstract Background Considering energy function to detect a correct protein fold from incorrect ones is very important for protein structure prediction and protein folding. Knowledge-based mean force potentials are certainly the most popula...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-16

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

‘Optimal’ cutoff selection in studies of depression screening tool accuracy using the PHQ‐9, EPDS, or HADS‐D: A meta‐research study

Eliana Brehaut, Dipika Neupane, Brooke Levis, Yin Wu et al. • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (2023)

Abstract Objectives Optimal cutoff thresholds are selected to separate ‘positive’ from ‘negative’ screening results. We evaluated how depression screening tool studies select optimal cutoffs. Methods We included studies from previously cond...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1956

Data Mining Techniques in Medical Informatics

U. Rajendra Acharya, Wenwei Yu • The Open Medical Informatics Journal (2010)

The advent of high-performance computing has benefited various disciplines in finding practical solutions to their problems, and our health care is no exception to this.Signal processing, image processing, and data mining tools have been de...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.2174/1874431101004010021 PMC: 2916206

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

Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis COVID triage tool

Ayomide Owoyemi, Ron Ikpe, Mariam Toye, Ayesan Rewane et al. • Digital Health (2021)

COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 infection continues to spread across Africa. In Africa, mobile phone applications have been used for the surveilla...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/2055207621996876

Effects of chronic taurine administration on healthy pregnant rats and the consequences on the offspring: Datasets for motor tests and oxidative stress

Viridiana Vargas-Castro, Ricardo Gomez-Diaz, Victor M. Blanco-Alvarez, Constantino Tomas-Sanchez et al. • Data in Brief (2022)

We present the data for taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid) treatment to healthy pregnant Sprague Dawley rats (SD). At embryonic day 15 (E15), healthy pregnant SD rats were given taurine treatment (50 mg/L drinking water) and then to their...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108015

Medical informatics in the new millennium.

M. J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas • PubMed (1998)

In a period of social transformation, we must reinvent health care. For guidance, we can look to the evolving discipline of medical informatics and to the patterns of investment in the practice arena. A top ranked application need, the comp...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-896-0-1176

Effectiveness and Related Factors of Narrative Messages in Correcting Health-Related Misinformation: Protocol for a Systematic Review

Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Hiroko Okada, Rie Yokota • JMIR Research Protocols (2025)

BackgroundThe internet and social media have become essential sources of health information for patients and citizens; however, they often disseminate misinformation that lacks scientific evidence. Health-related misinformation can undermin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/69414

Implementing and Evaluating a National Integrated Digital Registry and Clinical Decision Support System in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services (Early Psychosis Informatics Into Care): Co-Designed Protocol

Siân Lowri Griffiths, Graham K Murray, Yanakan Logeswaran, John Ainsworth et al. • JMIR Research Protocols (2024)

BackgroundEarly intervention in psychosis (EIP) services are nationally mandated in England to provide multidisciplinary care to people experiencing first-episode psychosis, which disproportionately affects deprived and ethnic minority yout...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/50177

A method for automatically extracting infectious disease-related primers and probes from the literature

Pérez-Rey David, de la Iglesia Diana, de la Calle Guillermo, López-Campos Guillermo et al. • BMC Bioinformatics (2010)

Abstract Background Primer and probe sequences are the main components of nucleic acid-based detection systems. Biologists use primers and probes for different tasks, some related to the diagnosis and prescription of infectious diseases. Th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-410