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Cross-national validation of the MHQoL: psychometric evaluation and open-source tools for assessing mental health quality of life

Beatriz Olaya, Christina Maria van der Feltz-Cornelis, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Frederick W Thielen et al. • BMJ Open (2026)

Objectives To validate the cross-national psychometric properties of the Mental Health Quality of Life questionnaire (MHQoL) and to develop an open-source toolbox for its scoring, transformation and presentation.Design Secondary analysis of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108598

Displacement and Emplacement of Health Technology

Pascale Lehoux, Blake D. Poland, Geneviève Daudelin, Dave Holmes et al. • Science Technology & Human Values (2008)

The provision of “closer-to-patient” services has increased in most industrialized countries. However, the migration of services in non-traditional health care settings implies redefining the role of technical and human entities and transfo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243907306966

Instruments measuring the quality of life among people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in India: a systematic review protocol

Chetna Demla, Anns Thomas, Jomol Jose, Angela L Joshy et al. • BMJ Open (2021)

Introduction Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects an individual’s quality of life (QoL); and there are multiple instruments that can be used to measure QoL. The purpose of this systematic review is to identify the existing instruments that have...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043831

Tangible User Interface for Social Interactions for the Elderly: A Review of Literature

Way Kiat Bong, Weiqin Chen, Astrid Bergland • Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (2018)

The global population is ageing rapidly. The ageing population faces not only the risk of health-related problems but also the challenge of social isolation and loneliness. While mainstream technology is designed to improve daily life, elde...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2018/7249378

Reported Challenges in Health Technology Assessment of Complex Health Technologies

Milou A. Hogervorst, Rick A. Vreman, Aukje Kaija Mantel-Teeuwisse, Wim Goettsch • Value in Health (2021)

OBJECTIVES: With complex health technologies entering the market, methods for health technology assessment (HTA) may require changes. This study aimed to identify challenges in HTA of complex health technologies. METHODS: A survey was sent ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2021.11.1356

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

Web-based versus simulation-based refresher training in newborn life support

Kathleen Parthey, Anne Goldhahn, Anselm Linke, Katja Raberger et al. • Resuscitation Plus (2026)

Background: Regular training for healthcare professionals in newborn life support is life-saving. Web-based refresher has the potential to be non-inferior to simulation-based refresher training. Methods: The multicenter non-inferiority rand...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.resplu.2026.101382

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

Early Retinal Microvascular Alterations in Young Type 1 Diabetic Patients without Clinical Retinopathy

Alexandra Oltea Dan, Alin Ștefănescu-Dima, Andrei Teodor Bălășoiu, Ileana Puiu et al. • Diagnostics (2023)

The purpose of this study is to identify and quantify preclinical changes with the help of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) within the retinal microcirculation of young type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients without clinical signs of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13091648

Dataset on perception of public college students on underage drinking in Nigeria

Olujide A. Adekeye, Emmanuel O. Amoo, Sussan O. Adeusi, Olufunke O. Chenube et al. • Data in Brief (2019)

Alcohol is the most widely used substance of abuse among youths in Nigeria. Underage drinking poses a serious public health problem in most colleges and despite the health and safety risk, consumption of alcohol is rising. Having recourse t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103930

HRI-confusion: A multimodal dataset for modelling and detecting user confusion in situated human-robot interaction

Na Li, Jane Courtney, Robert Ross • Data in Brief (2025)

The dataset was collected from 28 participants (17 female, 9 male, and 1 non-binary) for a study aimed at modelling and detecting user social behaviours with different confusion states in task-oriented situated human-robot interaction (HRI)...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2025.112047

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

Necroptosis and Neuroinflammation in Retinal Degeneration

Yan Tao, Yusuke Murakami, Demetrios G. Vavvas, Koh-Hei Sonoda • Frontiers in Neuroscience (2022)

Necroptosis mediates the chronic inflammatory phenotype in neurodegeneration. Receptor-interacting protein kinase (RIPK) plays a pivotal role in the induction of necroptosis in various cell types, including microglia, and it is implicated i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.911430

Social Media Listening to Understand the Lived Experience of Individuals in Europe With Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Systematic Search and Content Analysis Study

Manuelita Mazza, Maria Piperis, Sathyaraj Aasaithambi, Jyoti Chauhan et al. • Frontiers in Oncology (2022)

BackgroundDespite a wealth of real-world data on metastatic breast cancer (mBC), insights into the lived experience are lacking. This study aimed to explore how the lived experience of mBC is described on social media.MethodsA predefined se...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.863641

Evaluating Urban–Rural Disparity of Public Facilities Provision in Chengdu–Chongqing: An Equity Index Approach with Multi-Source Data

Xuan Liu, Youxin Qian, Guohui Zhou, Guangyu Xu et al. • Systems (2026)

Urban–rural public facility disparity is a systemic challenge that reflects dysfunctional feedback loops within and across social and technical subsystems. Traditional administrative-unit-based analyses cannot capture such systemic alignmen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/systems14080903

New Public Administration

H. George Frederickson • University of Alabama Press eBooks (2020)

This book is generally about public administration and particularly about new public administration, a product of the turbulent late 1960s and the 1970s....

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.30346992