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Emergency Medicine
Kenneth V. Iserson
Summary: Magical thinking is a cognitive process characterized by beliefs in supernatural causality and the power of rituals. It can have both positive and negative consequences, ranging from bringing hope and comfort to delaying medical care and refusing evidence-based treatments.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
(2023)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Jordan Everson, Vaishali Patel, Julia Adler-Milstein
Summary: The study surveyed health information exchange organizations to assess the prevalence of information blocking behaviors. It found that a majority of HIEs reported EHR vendors and health systems engaging in information blocking, with vendors setting unreasonably high prices and health systems refusing to share information being common behaviors. Information blocking was found to be concentrated in certain geographic regions, reflecting regional competition among vendors.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Christian Ohmann, David Moher, Maximilian Siebert, Edith Motschall, Florian Naudet
Summary: The study found that while there is a high willingness to share IPD data from clinical trials, the actual data-sharing rates are suboptimal, and journals have poor to moderate enforcement of data-sharing policies. When data is requested, it is more often for secondary analysis and meta-analysis, rather than re-analysis. Studies on the real impact of data-sharing are rare and often use surrogate metrics like citation metrics.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Ben Gordon, Clara Fennessy, Susheel Varma, Jake Barrett, Enez McCondochie, Trevor Heritage, Oenone Duroe, Richard Jeffery, Vishnu Rajamani, Kieran Earlam, Victor Banda, Neil Sebire
Summary: This study objectively evaluated freely available data profiling software tools for their applicability in healthcare data. Several tools showed high potential and functionality for use with healthcare datasets. In a synthetic dataset of 1000 patients, two tools consistently performed well across multiple tasks including completeness, consistency, uniqueness, validity, accuracy, and distribution metrics.
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Psychiatry
Clare M. Eddy, Peter C. Hansen
Summary: The study found direct correlations between thought action fusion (TAF) and empathy, with different factors influencing TAF moral and likelihood. This indicates that emotional and cognitive factors play a role in the development of personal distress. The study also highlights the potential importance of alexithymia and emotion contagion in the development of psychiatric symptoms related to TAF.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Teumzghi F. Mebrahtu, Sarah Skyrme, Rebecca Randell, Anne-Maree Keenan, Karen Bloor, Huiqin Yang, Deirdre Andre, Alison Ledward, Henry King, Carl Thompson
Summary: This study systematically reviewed the impact of CDSS on the performance and care outcomes of nurses and allied health professionals. The findings suggest that CDSS has a positive impact on care processes and patient care outcomes, but comparative research is generally of low quality and better evaluative research is needed.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Amin Naemi, Thomas Schmidt, Marjan Mansourvar, Mohammad Naghavi-Behzad, Ali Ebrahimi, Uffe Kock Wiil
Summary: This systematic review evaluated the performance of machine learning algorithms in predicting in-hospital mortality for medical patients using vital signs at emergency departments. A total of 15 articles were included, with eight different ML models being applied in this domain. However, most studies lacked reporting on essential analysis steps and faced a high risk of bias in statistical analysis, highlighting the need for more robust methodologies in future research.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Holland Marie Vasquez, Emilie Pianarosa, Renee Sirbu, Lori M. Diemert, Heather Cunningham, Birsen Donmez, Laura C. Rosella
Summary: This scoping review aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of how human factors techniques have been applied in the design of population health decision support tools. While human factors methods have been applied to the design of clinical health tools, their application in population health tools is limited.
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Ahmad Khanijahani, Shabnam Iezadi, Sarah Agoglia, Spencer Barber, Courtney Cox, Natalie Olivo
Summary: This systematic review identifies factors associated with information breaches in healthcare settings. Factors such as organizational, information technology, professionals/employees, and clients/patients contribute to breaches. Hospital characteristics, EMR use, and personnel types impact the frequency and magnitude of breaches. Patients' sociodemographic, clinical, and behavioral characteristics also influence the perceived breach of confidentiality.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS
(2022)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Rachel Victoria Belt, Kazem Rahimi, Samuel Cai
Summary: There has been a significant increase in the use of digital technology and methods in health-related research, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This offers potential for applying digital health research in hard-to-reach populations. To inform future digital health studies, a scoping review is proposed to comprehensively map the evidence and guidelines on the applications and challenges of digital health research methods to such populations.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Youngji Jo, Amnesty Elizabeth LeFevre, Hasmot Ali, Sucheta Mehra, Kelsey Alland, Saijuddin Shaikh, Rezwanul Haque, Esther Semee Pak, Mridul Chowdhury, Alain B. Labrique
Summary: This study found that mobile phone-based pregnancy surveillance systems with individually scheduled text messages and home-visit reminder strategies are highly cost-effective in Bangladesh. The cost-effectiveness may improve further with scale and sustainability.
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Education & Educational Research
Shiyu Liu, Chengfeng Li
Summary: This study investigates the effects of design-oriented making on students' learning of programming, creativity, and design thinking. The results show that integrating design thinking into making as a pedagogy is conducive to the development of design thinking and creativity.
THINKING SKILLS AND CREATIVITY
(2023)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Asma Abdullah Alfayez, Holger Kunz, Alvina Grace Lai
Summary: This study aims to identify and compare existing supervised machine learning approaches for predicting cancer in asymptomatic adults, and to identify potential research gaps. Results show that current machine learning models for predicting future cancer risk still have shortcomings in transparency and clinical utility.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Katherine Robertson, Ian Hardingham, Rhiannon D'Arcy, Aparna Reddy, Joe Clacey
Summary: Delay in the induction of labour (IOL) process is associated with poor patient experience and adverse perinatal outcome. Factors such as the total number of labouring women and the number of booked IOL are significantly associated with delay. The MUMSIM computer simulation model can predict the impact of interventions to reduce delay in the IOL process.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Kah Poh Loh, Jianfang Liu, Sarah Ganzhorn, Gabriella Sanabria, Rebecca Schnall
Summary: In this study, the optimal cut-point of 4.32 on the Health-ITUES total score was identified to define usability of IT tools. Participants with higher Health-ITUES scores were more likely to complete more activities using the mobile app for self-managing HIV.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS
(2022)
