A machine learning model incorporating functional assessments predicts one-year mortality in older patients with HF and improves risk stratification beyond established scores. Functional status at ...

ABSTRACT: Accurate prediction of survey response rates is essential for optimizing survey design and ensuring high-quality data collection. Traditional methods often struggle to capture the complexity ...

Abstract: The prediction of patient care costs is essential in supporting hospital financial planning and enhancing service transparency. This practical work report presents the development of a cost ...

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Climate disasters like hurricanes and heat waves can send people to the hospital with problems ranging from injuries to heat stroke. This can lead to unexpected medical bills for families – and rising ...

Abstract: The referral system in the National Health Insurance program aims to optimize the function of First Level Health Facilities as an initial health service filter. However, practice in the ...

Introduction: Food price volatility continues to be a significant concern in Kenya's economic development, posing challenges to the country's economic stability. Methodology: This study examines the ...

Eight class-action lawsuits have been filed in the wake of a July data breach at a University of Iowa Health Care affiliate that may have compromised some general medical information for over 200,000 ...

College of Mechanical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China Engineering Research Center of Advanced Metal Composites Forming Technology and Equipment, Ministry of ...

Most patients don’t expect to be sent to a vending machine immediately after a doctor’s appointment or a hospital stay. But there are two new vending machines that dole out prescription medications — ...

1 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China 2 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Huai’an Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University and ...

Big Pharma buys consumer health care data and uses it to target doctors who don’t prescribe their drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have been doing this for decades, yet few people know it happens. Many ...