BMC Glob Public Health
December 2024
Background: Paediatric critical care nurses face challenges in promptly detecting patient deterioration and delivering high-quality care, especially in low-resource settings (LRS). Patient monitors equipped with data-driven algorithms that monitor and integrate clinical data can optimise scarce resources (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The recommendation to consider prescribing inhalation corticosteroids to a subgroup of vulnerable COVID-19 patients was added to the Dutch medical guideline on November 11, 2021, and was also adopted by other countries during the pandemic.
Aim: To evaluate the adherence of general practitioners to this guideline, and whether real-world data quality is sufficient to study the effect of revised guidelines on prescribing behaviour.
Design & Setting: A retrospective cohort study using Dutch primary care data from the Extramural LUMC Academic Network database, containing patient data of 129 general practices in the Leiden - The Hague area.
Study Question: What are the reproductive outcomes of patients who cryopreserved oocytes or embryos in the context of fertility preservation in the Netherlands?
Summary Answer: This study shows that after a 10-year follow-up period, the utilization rate to attempt pregnancy using cryopreserved oocytes or embryos was 25.5% and the cumulative live birth rate after embryo transfer was 34.6% per patient.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressure on hospitals increased tremendously. To alleviate this pressure, a remote patient monitoring system called the COVID Box was developed and implemented in primary care. The aim was to assess whether the COVID Box in primary care could reduce emergency department (ED) referrals due to a COVID-19 infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: The aging and multimorbid population and health personnel shortages pose a substantial burden on primary health care. While predictive machine learning (ML) algorithms have the potential to address these challenges, concerns include transparency and insufficient reporting of model validation and effectiveness of the implementation in the clinical workflow.
Objectives: To systematically identify predictive ML algorithms implemented in primary care from peer-reviewed literature and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Conformité Européene (CE) registration databases and to ascertain the public availability of evidence, including peer-reviewed literature, gray literature, and technical reports across the artificial intelligence (AI) life cycle.