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Association between social health status and health-related quality of life among community-dwelling elderly in Zhejiang

Jieming Lu, Zhebin Yu, Xiaocong Zhang, Mengyin Wu et al. • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2020)

Abstract Background Population aging is an inevitable trend and previous studies have showed the relationship between social health related factors and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in the elderly. The objective of this study is t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12955-020-01358-4

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

ACHENY: A standard Chenopodiaceae image dataset for deep learning models

Ahmad Heidary-Sharifabad, Mohsen Sardari Zarchi, Sima Emadi, Gholamreza Zarei • Data in Brief (2021)

This paper contains datasets related to the “Efficient Deep Learning Models for Categorizing Chenopodiaceae in the wild” (Heidary-Sharifabad et al., 2021). There are about 1500 species of Chenopodiaceae that are spread worldwide and often a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107478

Are Medical Informatics and Nursing Informatics Distinct Disciplines?: The 1999 ACMI Debate

Daniel R. Masys, Patricia Brennan, Judy G. Ozbolt, M Corn et al. • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2000)

The 1999 debate of the American College of Medical Informatics focused on the proposition that medical informatics and nursing informatics are distinctive disciplines that require their own core curricula, training programs, and professiona...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jamia.2000.0070304 PMC: 61434

Medical Informatics, Artefacts or Science?

Jeremy C Wyatt • Methods of Information in Medicine (1996)

Successful and productive medical informatics research is evidently a combination of luck, creative art, and science, but some researchers focus too much on building computer artefacts and writing anecdotal reports of their experience. They...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1634665

A Virtual Reading Center Model Using Crowdsourcing to Grade Photographs for Trachoma: Validation Study

Christopher J Brady, R Chase Cockrell, Lindsay R Aldrich, Meraf A Wolle et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2023)

BackgroundAs trachoma is eliminated, skilled field graders become less adept at correctly identifying active disease (trachomatous inflammation—follicular [TF]). Deciding if trachoma has been eliminated from a district or if treatment strat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/41233

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

‘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

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

Mona Duggal, Anshul Chauhan, Vishali Gupta, Ankita Kankaria et al. • JMIR Medical Informatics (2025)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/67529

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

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

Medical informatics across Europe: Analysis of medical informatics scientific output in 33 European countries

Ozren Polašek, Josipa Kern • Informatics for Health and Social Care (2011)

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the medical informatics scientific output in 33 European countries. METHODS: Medical Subject Heading term "medical informatics" was used to identify all relevant articles published in 1998-2007 and indexed in the ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/17538157.2011.590256

Quantum computing in medical informatics

Kavita Khare, Zainab Aizaz, Nilay Khare • CRC Press eBooks (2025)

In an era of exponential technological advancements, the integration of quantum computing (QC) and medical informatics emerges as a captivating frontier, promising to unlock a new realm of possibilities for healthcare. QC, harnessing the pr...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003503033-10

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

Behavioral dataset for Long-Evans and its schizophrenia-like substrain through several generations

Gábor Kőrösi, Oliver Czimbalmos, Gabriella Kekesi, Gyongyi Horvath • Scientific Data (2026)

Abstract We present a high-throughput behavioral dataset acquired with Ambitus, an automated reward-based corridor system that records locomotor and exploratory activities and cognitive functions after minimal handling. The collection conta...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41597-026-06735-0

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

The Role of iSchools in Medical Informatics

Saira Naim Haque, Carsten S. Østerlund, Madhu C Reddy • Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (2010)

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...

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