Academic Articles & Research Papers

A systematic review of the impact of master's-educated nurses on inpatient care

Aim: Review the impact of master's-educated nurses on inpatient care in different healthcare systems and specialties. Background: Improved healthcare service quality and efficiency are needed due to a number of factors, including an aging p...

Detection of causative agents of bacterial pneumonia in hospitalized hajj and umrah cases by multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction

Background and Objectives: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is commonly detected in pneumonia patients who travel from the Middle East regions. Besides MERS-CoV, many other pathogenic agents cause pneumonia. Detection...

Urine metals concentrations and dyslexia among children in China

Background: Exposures to heavy metals has been linked to many developmental disorders. However, few studies have investigated the effects of exposure and co-exposure to metals on dyslexia, especially with regard to dyslexics in China. Objec...

Fenofibrate modified-release pellets with lag phase and high oral bioavailability

Fang Li,1,* Xin Zheng,2,* YongChu Bao,3 Ting Chen,3 Jia Zeng,1 XiaoLi Xu,4 Chao Yan,5 LingLin Feng1 1NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), Fudan University, and Shanghai Engineer...

Formative qualitative research on the potential for digital solutions to address diabetes care gaps in Tanzania and Sri Lanka

Objectives Diabetes care remains unavailable and unaffordable for many people. Adapting models of care to low-income and middle-income country contexts is a priority. Digital technology offers substantial potential yet must surmount health ...

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...

The development of health technology assessment

A Strategic Vision for Telemedicine and Medical Informatics in Space Flight

This Workshop was designed to assist in the ongoing development and application of telemedicine and medical informatics to support extended space flight. Participants included specialists in telemedicine and medical/health informatics (terr...

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...

Reflections Towards the Future of Medical Informatics

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 ...

Hackathons as Stepping Stones in Health Care Innovation: Case Study With Systematic Recommendations

BackgroundUntil recently, developing health technologies was time-consuming and expensive, and often involved patients, doctors, and other health care professionals only as passive recipients of the end product. So far, users have been mini...

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...

Phosphorus runoff from Canadian agricultural land: A dataset for 30 experimental fields

Phosphorus (P) runoff from agricultural land plays a critical role in downstream water quality. This article summarizes P and sediment runoff data for both snowmelt and rainfall runoff from 30 arable fields in the Canadian provinces of Sask...

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...

Online peer support for Young Onset Dementia is a promising resource, but not a panacea: a commentary from the INTERDEM Young Onset Dementia taskforce

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) betaAHIC PDF

The document titled "American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) betaAHIC PDF" is a comprehensive resource that outlines essential insights and developments in the field of medical informatics as presented by the American Medical Inform...

Ontology Technology in Medical Informatics

The main purpose of this paper is to overview the current issues in the area of medical ontology. Ontology technology in Medical Informatics is evolved from the three different research areas: namely, web application for the Semantic Web, K...

Медицинская информатика [Medical Informatics]

A 2009 Russian-language textbook by Boris A. Kobrinsky and Tatyana V. Zarubina on medical informatics. The book covers the principles and methods of information technology in medicine, including medical information systems, biomedical data ...

Deep learning-based multimodal data fusion in bone tumor management: Advances in clinical decision support

Bone tumors (BTs)—including osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma—are rare but biologically complex malignancies characterized by pronounced heterogeneity in anatomical location, histological subtype, and molecular alterations. Re...