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Evaluation of Mobile Apps Targeted at Patients With Spondyloarthritis for Disease Monitoring: Systematic App Search.

Evaluation of Mobile Apps Targeted at Patients With Spondyloarthritis for Disease Monitoring. "A total of 1253 apps were identified in the app stores, and 5 apps met the criteria and were further analyzed. Moreover, 2 apps (MySpA and Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis...
Source: nih.gov

Factors associated with successful dementia education for practitioners in primary care: an in-depth case study.

Factors associated with successful dementia education for practitioners in primary care: an in-depth case study. Designing learning for person-centred care is challenging and needs to involve an approach that works with HCPs and interdisciplinary teams. “With increasing numbers of people in the UK...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Tick-borne encephalitis virus detected in ticks in the UK.

Tick-borne encephalitis virus detected in ticks in the UK: Surveillance detects tick-borne encephalitis virus in 2 parts of England for the first time. "Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) has been detected for the first time in ticks in the UK. The findings are part of ongoing research by Public Health...
Source: www.gov.uk

Teaching a difficult topic in medical genetics using a problem-based concept resembling a computer game.

Teaching a difficult topic using a problem-based concept resembling a computer game: development and evaluation of an e-learning application for medical molecular genetics: E-learning through serious gaming. Teaching concepts such as genetic testing and the digital literacy required to analyse data can...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Physicians reported less burnout and emotional exhaustion after receiving short-term professional coaching.

Physicians reported less burnout and emotional exhaustion after receiving short-term professional coaching, according to a pilot trial published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Counseling Reduces Physician Burnout Anita Slomski. JAMA. 2019;322(16):1544 This editorial in JAMA comments on the recent paper:...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Patient experience feedback in UK hospitals: What types are available and what are their potential roles in quality improvement

Patient experience feedback in UK hospitals: What types are available and what are their potential roles in quality improvement (QI)?: The comparative uses of different types of patient experience (PE) feedback as data within quality improvement (QI) are poorly understood. This paper reviews what types...
Source: wiley.com

Using artificial intelligence to read chest radiographs for tuberculosis detection: A multi-site evaluation

Using artificial intelligence to read chest radiographs for tuberculosis detection: A multi-site evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of three deep learning systems: Deep learning (DL) neural networks have only recently been employed to interpret chest radiography (CXR) to screen and triage people for...
Source: nature.com

Beyond the Quality Illusion: The Learning Era : Academic Medicine: Jur Koksma and Jan Kremer.

Beyond the Quality Illusion: The Learning Era : Academic Medicine: Jur Koksma and Jan Kremer. The authors recommend, for the path forward, a “travel kit” of 10 crucial elements—compassion, deliberation, flexible goals, ownership, the engagement of patients, the inclusion of payers, the involvement...
Source: lww.com

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. “This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. “This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared.” Should have read this humbling but uplifting book a long time ago. Places you in a hard labour...
Source: amazon.co.uk

How To Kill Ideas: We were asked last week by the Disruptive Innovators Network, 'How long should you spend on an idea?'

How To Kill Ideas: We were asked last week by the Disruptive Innovators Network, 'How long should you spend on an idea?' "In the early days of Bromford Lab we had a 12 WEEKS MAX rule. If we couldn’t get an idea up and running within that time – it should be killed. We soon realised the error of our...
Source: paulitaylor.com

Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot: A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks

Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot: A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they “speak” to one another as individuals.
Source: smithsonianmag.com

Benefits and harms of exercise programmes for people with ankylosing spondylitis. Cochrane review. "We found moderate- to

Benefits and harms of exercise programmes for people with ankylosing spondylitis. Cochrane review. "We found moderate- to low-quality evidence that exercise programmes probably slightly improve function, may reduce pain, and probably slightly reduce global patient assessment of disease activity, when...
Source: cochrane.org

Could deep learning AI be used to screen TIA clinic referral letters? Possibly.

blog post image Could deep learning AI be used to screen TIA clinic referral letters? Possibly. Stroke prevention clinics (TIA or Transient Ischaemic Attack) clinics are an important aspect of urgent care. A TIA is a risk factor for future stroke. Medical treatment needs to be started quickly and surgical options, if...
Source: agnate.co.uk

Four Key Barriers to the Widespread Adoption of AI: There is a lot of buzz about the promise of artificial intelligence

Four Key Barriers to the Widespread Adoption of AI: There is a lot of buzz about the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning—from self-driving cars to predicting heart attacks, AI is spreading like wildfire across industries, triggering a massive investment in talent as businesses...
Source: mit.edu

Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients—Beyond Survival Statistics: This Viewpoint discusses

Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients—Beyond Survival Statistics: This Viewpoint discusses the challenges of communicating uncertain prognosis to patients and offers a framework and language that go past mortality statistics—addressing range of time left, loss...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Robot car "Stanley" designed by Stanford Racing Team marked the start of the age of driverless cars and an AI milestone.

Robot car "Stanley" designed by Stanford Racing Team marked the start of the age of driverless cars and an AI milestone. "On October 9, 2005, Stanley and the Stanford Racing Team were awarded 2 million dollars for being the first team to complete the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge course in California's...
Source: stanford.edu

A kauri tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours through hydraulic coupling. Forests should be viewed as living organisms.

A kauri tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours through hydraulic coupling. Forests should be viewed as living organisms. "Trees are commonly regarded as distinct entities, but the roots of many species fuse to form natural root grafts allowing the exchange of water, carbon, mineral nutrients, and...
Source: cell.com

Gaining insights with Natural Language Processing of Reddit Data to Evaluate Dermatology Patient Experiences and Therapeutics.

Gaining insights with Natural Language Processing of Reddit Data to Evaluate Dermatology Patient Experiences and Therapeutics. "There is a lack of research studying patient-generated data on Reddit, one of the world’s most popular forums with active users interested in dermatology. Techniques within...
Source: sciencedirect.com

Virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects: Psychologist Pete Etchells on his book, Lost in a Good Game.

Virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects: Psychologist Pete Etchells on his book, Lost in a Good Game. " ... a psychologist at Bath Spa University in England but still an avid gamer, Etchells specializes in understanding the behavioral effects—both positive and negative—of video...
Source: arstechnica.com

Interested in shared decision making? What does it really mean to remove the distance between a doctor and their patient

Interested in shared decision making? What does it really mean to remove the distance between a doctor and their patient or family when managing the most complex of medical cases? Then read this. Matt Morgan, a colleague of mine from OnExamination days, an intensive care specialist in Cardiff, has written...
Source: simonandschuster.co.uk