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A recommender system to quit smoking with mobile motivational messages: study...
Abstract Background Smoking cessation is the most common preventative for an array of diseases, including lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Although there... -
Sedentary behaviour in hospitalised older people: a scoping review protocol
Abstract Background Older adults spend up to 23 h daily sitting or lying while in hospital. Sedentary behaviour (SB) within a hospital setting is often associated with poor... -
Identifying diabetes cases from administrative data: a population-based valid...
Abstract Background Health care data allow for the study and surveillance of chronic diseases such as diabetes. The objective of this study was to identify and validate optimal... -
A virtual clinic for the management of diabetes-type 1: study protocol for a ...
Abstract Background Diabetes is a serious chronic disease. Medical treatment and good psychosocial support are needed to cope with acute and long-term effects of diabetes.... -
ATLANTIS: a randomised multi-arm phase II biomarker-directed umbrella screeni...
Abstract Background Metastatic urothelial cancer (UC) is the eighth most common cause of cancer death in the UK. Standard first-line treatment, for most patients, is cytotoxic... -
External validation of a multivariable claims-based rule for predicting in-ho...
Abstract Background Low-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) patients may be candidates for outpatient treatment or abbreviated hospital stay. There is a need for a claims-based... -
WhatsGNU: a tool for identifying proteomic novelty
Abstract To understand diversity in enormous collections of genome sequences, we need computationally scalable tools that can quickly contextualize individual genomes based on... -
Multi-center screening of the Pathogen Box collection for schistosomiasis dru...
Abstract Background Over the past five years, as a public service to encourage and accelerate drug discovery for diseases of poverty, the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) has... -
Role of ethambutol and rifampicin in the treatment of Mycobacterium avium com...
Abstract Background A three-drug regimen (macrolide, ethambutol, and rifampicin) is recommended for the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease (MAC-PD).... -
Landscape of gene fusions in epithelial cancers: seq and ye shall find
Abstract Enabled by high-throughput sequencing approaches, epithelial cancers across a range of tissue types are seen to harbor gene fusions as integral to their landscape of... -
A bioinformatics potpourri
Abstract The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) was held at Tsinghua University, Shenzhen from September 20 to 22, 2017. The annual conference of the... -
Leveraging machine learning-based approaches to assess human papillomavirus v...
Abstract Background As one of the serious public health issues, vaccination refusal has been attracting more and more attention, especially for newly approved human... -
What is the available evidence that artificial light at night affects animal ...
Abstract Background Artificial light at night (ALAN), has increased dramatically over the past two centuries and is linked to... -
iCAGES: integrated CAncer GEnome Score for comprehensively prioritizing drive...
Abstract Cancer results from the acquisition of somatic driver mutations. Several computational tools can predict driver genes from population-scale genomic data, but tools for... -
A few antibiotics can represent the total hospital antibiotic consumption
Abstract Background Appropriate antibiotic use has become an important issue. However, collecting data on the use of all antibiotics in a hospital is difficult without an... -
‘Motivational work’: a qualitative study of preventive health dialogues in ge...
Abstract Background The aim of this article is to explore preventive health dialogues in general practice in the context of a pilot study of a Danish primary preventive... -
Validity assessment of the PROMIS fatigue domain among people living with HIV
Abstract Purpose To evaluate psychometric characteristics and cross-sectional and longitudinal validity of the 7-item PROMISÂŽ Fatigue Short Form and additional fatigue items... -
Horizontal gene transfer is not a hallmark of the human genome
Abstract Crisp et al. recently reported that 145 human genes have been horizontally transferred from distant species. Here, I re-analyze those genes listed by Crisp et al. as... -
Interventions targeting conscious determinants of human behaviour to reduce t...
Abstract Background Reducing meat consumption can help prevent non-communicable diseases and protect the environment. Interventions targeting conscious determinants of human... -
Interventions to develop collectivistic leadership in healthcare settings: a ...
Abstract Background Collective or shared leadership approaches have been associated with team performance outcomes in several sectors. Based on this evidence, there have been...
