Publications by authors named "Z A Kapacee"
Article Synopsis
- There is a significant risk of reinforcing existing health inequalities in AI health technologies due to biases, primarily stemming from the datasets used.
- The STANDING Together recommendations focus on transparency in health datasets and proactive evaluation of their impacts on different population groups, informed by a comprehensive research process with over 350 global contributors.
- The 29 recommendations are divided into guidance for documenting health datasets and strategies for using them, aiming to identify and reduce algorithmic biases while promoting awareness of the inherent limitations in all datasets.
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- This study looks at how well doctors can predict sudden cardiac death after someone has a heart attack using a measurement called left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).
- They combined information from over 140,000 heart attack patients to see if LVEF alone is good enough for deciding who should get a heart device called a defibrillator.
- The results showed that LVEF didn't do a great job at predicting sudden cardiac death, which means doctors need better ways to tell who is at risk.
Article Synopsis
- Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) is commonly observed in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (aPC), but there is no standard method for screening it effectively.
- A study involved assessing patients with aPC through various dietary and nutritional tests, aiming to develop and validate a screening tool for PEI.
- Results showed that 64% of patients had PEI, identified by the new screening tool, which was associated with shorter survival rates; the tool proved feasible for clinical use, with high patient satisfaction.*
Background: Brain metastases (BMs) in patients with extra-pulmonary neuroendocrine neoplasms (EP-NENs) are rare, and limited clinical information is available. The aim of this study was to detail the clinicopathological features, management and outcomes in patients with EP-NENs who developed BMs.
Methods: A retrospective single-centre analysis of consecutive patients with EP-NENs (August 2004-February 2020) was conducted.
Use of the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale in patients with advanced hepatopancreaticobiliary malignancies.
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther
September 2022
Background: Co-existing frailty in older patients with hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) malignancies is common. This study assessed the relationship between the Rockwood Clinical Frailty scale (CFS) and systemic anti-cancer therapy dose intensity (SACT-DI) and overall survival (OS) in patients with advanced HPB malignancies.
Research Design And Methods: CFS was assessed prospectively for consecutive patients with newly diagnosed advanced HPB malignancy (The Christie; Sep-2019 to June-2020).