64 papers
This study utilizes a virtual stakeholder mapping workshop to identify key actors, their influence and interest levels, and the primary drivers and barriers affecting the adoption of digital health innovations for endometriosis care in Ireland, providing a strategic foundation for the VendoR project's co-design of patient-centred solutions.
This empirical study of 95 PLOS ONE health research papers reveals that over half of the analyzed linear regression analyses were not computationally reproducible due to poor variable mapping and inadequate methodological reporting, prompting a call for enhanced transparency through data dictionaries, analysis code, and a proposed Model Location and Specification Table (MLast).
This study reveals that inferential reproducibility in health and biomedical linear regression is frequently compromised by undetected violations of key assumptions, particularly normality and independence, underscoring the critical need for improved statistical education, transparency, and early collaboration with statisticians to ensure robust and clinically meaningful conclusions.
This study identifies critical barriers to interoperability, such as technical capacity gaps and fragmented systems, within Uganda's digital health landscape and proposes a data-driven roadmap centered on workforce development, standardized data formats, and formalized governance to transition from isolated "data islands" to an integrated system supporting nutrition and food security.
This paper introduces PRAM, a parameter-free post-hoc retrieval augmentation method that enhances the cross-hospital performance of frozen clinical prediction models by leveraging similar local patient data, demonstrating a consistent dose-response improvement without requiring model retraining or regulatory re-approval.
This retrospective study of 7,226 External Quality Assurance participations over four years demonstrates that a clinical laboratory's consistent analysis of deviations, which are predominantly analytical and concentrated in clinical chemistry, enables prompt corrective actions that maintain stable performance and a consistently low error rate.
This study describes the development and pilot testing of the METRE, a new assessment tool designed to measure the impact of lived experience and caregiver engagement on research, which was found to be straightforward and effective while requiring further psychometric validation.
This study demonstrates that a 10-week randomized controlled trial of a wearable brain-computer interface system delivering real-time neurofeedback during mindfulness meditation significantly reduces carsickness severity and normalizes associated neural signatures, offering a promising non-pharmacological therapeutic approach.
This study employs a modified Priority Setting Partnership approach to collaboratively identify and prioritize the top ten unanswered research questions regarding women+ health in Canada's Maritime provinces through a mixed-methods process involving diverse stakeholders.
A formative mixed-methods evaluation of a web-based Continuous Quality Improvement platform in Jamaica reveals that while the tool is generally accepted and effective for documentation and oversight, its sustained adoption depends on addressing critical barriers such as inconsistent internet connectivity, limited training, and workflow integration within supportive organizational contexts.
Despite high overall coverage of basic antenatal care in Ghana, significant pro-rich socioeconomic inequalities persist in maternal healthcare utilization, driven primarily by rural residence and educational disparities, which the National Health Insurance Scheme alone fails to eliminate.
Through a cognitive interview study with diverse South Carolina communities, researchers refined the PECAN survey instrument by addressing challenges related to complex wording, cultural relevance, and recall demands, thereby enhancing its clarity and effectiveness for studying precision health research participation.
This large-scale cohort study of the Veterans Health Administration reveals that missed outpatient appointments are common and highly variable, with higher no-show rates among veterans with PTSD or traumatic brain injury significantly associated with increased risks of hospitalization and mortality over the following year.
This study developed and validated a brief, universal single-item therapeutic empathy scale for patients, demonstrating its strong psychometric properties, including high convergent validity with established measures and sensitivity to known group differences, thereby offering a practical tool for clinical, educational, and research applications.
This cross-sectional study in Kigoma District, Tanzania, reveals that while the utilization of the M-Mama emergency transport system among lactating mothers remains low at 36%, its use is significantly driven by program awareness, parity, and education level.
This prospective study protocol evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of the home-based Dreem 3 EEG headband, compared against standard in-patient polysomnography and MSLT, for the ambulatory diagnosis of narcolepsy in children and young adults to potentially reduce delays and improve access to care.
This study utilizes concept mapping analysis of a 2024 British Columbia Cancer Summit workshop to identify stakeholder priorities for AI in cancer care, revealing a strong consensus on the high importance and feasibility of clinical benefits and efficiency gains over implementation challenges, thereby providing a structured framework to guide responsible and effective AI integration.
This study demonstrates that a two-week intervention using the algorithmically mediated digital peer support platform Peer2S significantly reduced anxiety among Japanese university students, while revealing that personality traits like high agreeableness can paradoxically increase anxiety due to cultural tendencies toward conflict avoidance.
This study validates the AASPIRE Measurement Toolkit, a set of 19 accessible, co-created outcome measures for autistic adults, demonstrating strong psychometric properties including reliability, validity, and responsiveness to change across a diverse longitudinal sample.
This qualitative study of skilled nursing facilities in Southern Arizona reveals that effective antimicrobial stewardship implementation is best understood as a complex adaptive system shaped by organizational workflows, care transitions, and staff interactions, rather than solely by individual prescribing decisions.