Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: development and validation of the 4C …

SR Knight, A Ho, R Pius, I Buchan, G Carson… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Objective To develop and validate a pragmatic risk score to predict mortality in patients
admitted to hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19). Design Prospective …

Risk factors for adverse prognosis and death in American visceral leishmaniasis: a meta-analysis

VS Belo, CJ Struchiner, DS Barbosa… - PLoS neglected …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background In the current context of high fatality rates associated with American visceral
leishmaniasis (VL), the appropriate use of prognostic factors to identify patients at higher risk …

A new approach to categorising continuous variables in prediction models: proposal and validation

I Barrio, I Arostegui… - … methods in medical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
When developing prediction models for application in clinical practice, health practitioners
usually categorise clinical variables that are continuous in nature. Although categorisation is …

A monitoring framework for health care processes using Generalized Additive Models and Auto-Encoders

A Yeganeh, A Johannssen, N Chukhrova… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a considerable focus on developing effective methods for
monitoring health care processes. Utilizing Statistical Process Monitoring (SPM) …

Age-specific cut-off levels of anti-Müllerian hormone can be used as diagnostic markers for polycystic ovary syndrome

F Ramezani Tehrani, M Rahmati… - Reproductive Biology …, 2021 - Springer
Background The majority of available studies on the AMH thresholds were not age-specific
and performed the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) analysis, based on …

Selecting the number of categories of the lymph node ratio in cancer research: A bootstrap-based hypothesis test

I Barrio, J Roca-Pardinas… - Statistical Methods in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The high impact of the lymph node ratio as a prognostic factor is widely established in
colorectal cancer, and is being used as a categorized predictor variable in several studies …

[HTML][HTML] A flexible approach to distributed data anonymization

F Kohlmayer, F Prasser, C Eckert, KA Kuhn - Journal of biomedical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sensitive biomedical data is often collected from distributed sources, involving different
information systems and different organizational units. Local autonomy and legal reasons …

[HTML][HTML] A new prediction model for acute kidney injury in patients with sepsis

C Fan, X Ding, Y Song - Annals of palliative medicine, 2021 - apm.amegroups.org
Background: Acute kidney injury is common in patients with sepsis and contributes to poor
prognosis and mortality. Early identification of high-risk patients can provide evidence for …

Associations between temperature variations and tourist arrivals: analysis based on Baidu Index of hot-spring tourism in 44 cities in China

L Wang, L Xin, Y Zhu, Y Fang, L Zhu - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Hot-spring tourism refers to entertainment, health preservation, commercial conferences,
and other leisure activities at hot-spring locations. This tourism often shows periodic …

[HTML][HTML] Causal effect of PM1 on morbidity of cause-specific respiratory diseases based on a negative control exposure

S Lv, X Liu, Z Li, F Lu, M Guo, M Liu, J Wei, Z Wu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Extensive studies have linked PM 2.5 and PM 10 with respiratory diseases
(RD). However, few is known about causal association between PM 1 and morbidity of RD …