Importance: Consolidation of physician practices by hospitals and private equity (PE) firms has increased rapidly. This trend is of particular importance within primary care. Despite its significance, there is no systematic evidence on the emerging trends in ownership affiliation of primary care physicians (PCPs) and its association with prices paid for physician services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to develop an advanced ensemble approach for automated classification of mental health disorders in social media posts. The research question was: can an ensemble of fine-tuned transformer models (XLNet, RoBERTa, and ELECTRA) with Bayesian hyperparameter optimization improve the accuracy of mental health disorder classification in social media text. Three transformer models (XLNet, RoBERTa, and ELECTRA) were fine-tuned on a dataset of social media posts labelled with 15 distinct mental health disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: India shares 2/3 of global TB burden. MDR and HIV coinfections are the main obstacle in achieving the successful TB control because it decrease the therapy effect.
Objective: To analyze the long-term trends of incidence of tuberculosis cases and identify any differences between actual and projected cases after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Med J Armed Forces India
December 2024
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been reported to have a high prevalence in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. There is scarcity of literature on relationship between OSA and diabetes in Indian population.
Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital and 80 consecutive and consenting patients with diabetes were enrolled over 24 months from 01 Sep 2014 to 31 Aug 2016.