CONTEXT: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being recognized as having potential importance to primary care (PC). However, there is a gap in our understanding about where to focus efforts related to AI for PC settings, especially given the
Hands are the primary mode of transmission of microbe-based infections, as they harbor normal microbiota and pathogenic microbes. SARS-CoV-2 has endangered lives worldwide, and WHO has recommended good hygiene practices, especially hand hygiene. In
Over the last two decades, cardiovascular diseases have become the leading cause of chronic disease morbidity and mortality in Italy. Therefore, the chronic cardiovascular care landscape has evolved rapidly in an era of unprecedented demand
CONCLUSIONS: Several quality indicators improved over time in early contributor hospitals. Indicators that did not improve may be targets for future care improvement activities, including considering incentivised hip fracture care, which has
We present a retrospective analysis of Emergency Department daily patient flow across 84 hospitals in Queensland, Australia over a four-year period from 2017 - 2020, leading up to and including the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Daily ED demand
The pandemic necessitated the rapid design, development and implementation of technologies to allow remote monitoring of COVID-19 patients at home. This study aimed to explore the environmental barriers and facilitators to the successful development
Several studies have shown that about 80% of the medical information in an electronic health record is only available through unstructured data. Resources such as medical terminologies in languages other than English are limited and restrain the NLP
Standardized operational definitions are an important tool to improve reproducibility of research using secondary real-world healthcare data. This approach was leveraged for studies evaluating the effectiveness of AZD7442 as COVID-19 pre-exposure
We identified the association of changes in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) with SARS-CoV-2 infection. From 6,396,500 patients, we performed a nested case-control study who participated in both biennial check-ups. Adjusted odds ratios