Validation and Comparison of Common Thoracolumbar Injury Classification Treatment Algorithms and a Novel Modification.

Background And Objectives: The most common thoracolumbar trauma classification systems are the Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score (TLICS) and the Thoracolumbar AO Spine Injury Score (TL AOSIS). Predictive accuracy of treatment recommendations is a historical limitation. Our objective was to validate and compare TLICS, TL AOSIS, and a modified TLICS (mTLICS) that awards 2 points for the presence of fractured vertebral body height loss >50% and/or spinal canal stenosis >50% at the fracture site.

Attitudes on Artificial Intelligence use in Pediatric Care From Parents of Hospitalized Children.

Introduction: Artificial intelligence (AI) may benefit pediatric healthcare, but it also raises ethical and pragmatic questions. Parental support is important for the advancement of AI in pediatric medicine. However, there is little literature describing parental attitudes toward AI in pediatric healthcare, and existing studies do not represent parents of hospitalized children well.

Technical/Algorithm, Stakeholder, and Society (TASS) barriers to the application of artificial intelligence in medicine: A systematic review.

Introduction: The use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly machine learning and predictive analytics, has shown great promise in health care. Despite its strong potential, there has been limited use in health care settings. In this systematic review, we aim to determine the main barriers to successful implementation of AI in healthcare and discuss potential ways to overcome these challenges.

The Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Microbiome Composition: A Systematic Review.

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are a significant health problem, impacting millions of people every year. Although emerging evidence suggests that the composition of the gut microbiome is altered after TBI, no systematic review has been published on this topic. The objective of the present systematic review is to analyze publications that evaluate the impact of TBI on gut microbiome composition.

The management of diabetes in everyday life study: Design and methods for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of text messaging versus health coaching.

Background African American patients with uncontrolled diabetes living in medically underserved areas need effective clinic-based interventions to improve self-care behaviors. Text messaging (TM) and health coaching (HC) are among the most promising low-cost population-based approaches, but little is known about their comparative effectiveness in real-world clinical settings. Objective Use a pragmatic randomized controlled trial design to determine the comparative effectiveness of TM and HC with enhanced usual care (EC) in African American adults with uncontrolled diabetes and multiple chronic health conditions.

Cosmetics as a feature of the extended human phenotype: modulation of the perception of biologically important facial signals.

Research on the perception of faces has focused on the size, shape, and configuration of inherited features or the biological phenotype, and largely ignored the effects of adornment, or the extended phenotype. Research on the evolution of signaling has shown that animals frequently alter visual features, including color cues, to attract, intimidate or protect themselves from conspecifics. Humans engage in conscious manipulation of visual signals using cultural tools in real time rather than genetic changes over evolutionary time.